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Eating Healthy while Enjoying Yourself: The 80/20 Method
- Virginie Gloor
- Apr 20, 2023
- 2 min read
Eating healthy can be a challenge, especially when you have to give up a lot of your favorite foods. Unfortunately, our comfort or indulgence foods often belong to categories such as sweets, fatty and/or sugary foods, or processed junk food.
However, with the 80/20 method, you can achieve your health goals while still allowing yourself some pleasures from time to time.
In this article, we will explore this method and the benefits it can offer.
What is the 80/20 method?
The 80/20 method involves eating healthy 80% of the time, while the remaining 20% can be "cheat meals," which are meals that fall outside the scope of a healthy diet.
Cheat meals can include foods that you love, such as fries, burgers, or pizza.
What are the benefits of this method?
The benefits of this method are numerous.
Firstly, it allows you to enjoy yourself while maintaining an overall healthy diet. You don't have to give up all of your favorite foods to achieve your health goals. Instead, you can indulge in cheat meals from time to time and enjoy these foods without guilt.
In addition, cheat meals can help increase metabolism and burn more fat. When you follow a strict diet, your body can adapt and start burning less fat. However, by allowing yourself cheat meals, you can help your body burn more fat by increasing your metabolism. (A ce sujet, tu peux lire mon article sur l'effet yoyo où j'explique en détail ce qui se passe quand ton métabolisme ralentit: https://www.healthy-and-happy-corporate-people.com/post/comment-réduire-sensiblement-vos-apports-caloriques-sans-se-mettre-à-la-diète)
Finally, cheat meals can help you stay motivated and stay on track over the long term. When you follow a strict diet, it can be difficult to maintain that discipline over the long term. By allowing yourself cheat meals, you can give yourself a little boost in terms of motivation, feeling less deprived, less frustrated, and more satisfied, which can help you stick with it over the long term.
What should you consider to implement this method correctly?
It is important to note that indulging in cheat meals should be done in moderation.
Here are some tips for fully enjoying these gustatory "breaks":
Plan them in advance and choose foods that you really enjoy, rather than rushing to grab processed and unhealthy foods.
You should also follow the 80/20 rule. This means that 80% of your meals should be healthy and balanced, while the remaining 20% can be cheat meals. This distribution can be made over a day or a week. In the infographic below, you can discover an example of weekly organization.
Keep in mind that the 80/20 method is an excellent way to eat healthily while enjoying yourself. However, it is not the only method that works. Everyone is different, and what works for one person may not work for another. It is therefore important to find the method that best suits your lifestyle and health goals.
The 80/20 method is an excellent way to eat healthily while enjoying yourself. It allows you to indulge in cheat meals from time to time.
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