Top 6 Tips to Make Your Pro Cheer Diet Healthier
They say that the secret to eating healthier is not just about what you eat, it’s also about how you eat it. I couldn’t agree more. You can’t maintain a healthy diet if you don’t love it. You’ll just ditch eating healthily because you hate the sudden change of taste in your new meals.
In some of the previous articles, we’ve discussed what aspiring pro cheerleaders should eat to achieve the arena-dancer physique. Now, this article is about teaching yourself how to love eating healthily. There are also bonus tips that will help you stave off cravings. These tips will help your pro cheer diet easier to follow.
1. Set your mind to focus on a positive intention
A healthy diet is hard to follow especially if you don’t like what you’re eating. This is because you treat healthy food as a forced necessity. To make eating healthier a passion, start by telling yourself that a healthy pro cheer diet is what you deserve.
Start with self-love. Once you accept that a proper diet is part of self-care, you’ll learn to love eating healthily. And in the long run, you’ll never want anything else.
2. Eat at a steady pace
Our brains signal us we’re hungry faster than it perceives we are satisfied. And it usually takes 20 minutes of our brain to receive a feeling of satisfaction after our first bite. So don’t rush when eating your meals and snacks. Take your time to chew and savor what you’re eating.
Rushing to finish your plate will leave you in a state of light-crave. This prompts you to eat more. The same goes for eating while being too distracted. Being on the phone while eating dinner will cause you to mindlessly stuff your mouth.
If you ate too fast and feel unsatisfied with your healthily-portioned meals, drink water. Check to see if you’re still really hungry.
3. Don’t focus on your weight, focus on your grocery list
Progress won’t happen overnight. Just because you ate a salad last night doesn’t mean you’ll have an Emilia Clarke body tomorrow. Surround yourself with a positive diet mindset. Constantly checking your weight will make you think dieting is useless.
Forget stepping on the scale every day. Prioritize what you should write on your grocery list for the next trip to the mart. When you’re really starting to see changes as a result of your diet, only then you can check yourself on the scale.
4. Eat healthy food according to season
The idea here is to eat food that makes you happy depending on the situation. No, I’m not talking about four bars of chocolates, a gallon of ice cream, or a bag of chips just because you’re stressed. What I’m trying to say is that every weather has its own feel-good dish.
For example, eating green salad is good for summer because it’s hydrating and usually cooled from the fridge. But, a salad is gloomy to eat during rains or winters. What do you do? You go for the healthy chicken soup instead to fight the cold.
5. Make sure to always have protein for breakfast
It can be easy during the mornings to reach for a cookie in the jar if you feel hungry an hour or two after breakfast. That’s why it’s important you eat a healthy amount of protein during the mornings. Protein takes longer to digest so you’ll feel satisfied for longer hours.
Cook eggs during breakfast and don’t eat too much bread or cereal. Bread and cereal are mostly refined carbs, which means they’re faster to digest leading to more early cravings. If you have bread or cereal, better swap the white bread with the whole grain variety and the cereal with oats.
6. Ditch grilling and frying
When preparing meat and fish, grilling and frying are the most popular methods to prepare them. But these cooking styles promote the formations of harmful compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and advanced glycation end products (AGEs). These toxic compounds have been linked to heart diseases and cancer.
Baking, broiling, simmering, stewing, and pressure cooking are healthier cooking methods. Although, it’s not bad to eat grilled or fried food once in a while. Just remember to grill your meat and fish sparingly.
As a beginner to dieting, going for a total dietary makeover immediately would result in discouragement before results. A sudden change in routine can be overwhelming. So don’t be in a hurry. Incorporate every tip you find above one by one. When you’re comfortable with following the first step naturally, move on to the next.
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