{"id":192,"date":"2007-01-26T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2007\/01\/kim-sievers-diet-tips\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T22:11:21","slug":"kim-sievers-diet-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/01\/26\/kim-sievers-diet-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Siever’s Diet Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, you may be asking yourself, “Woah! Kim Siever is on a diet.” That all depends on what you call a diet. Let’s just say in the last eight years or so, I have not had a large weight gain (more than five pounds). So what’s my secret?<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t eat crap.<\/strong> Eat healthy food and a wide variety of it. Sometimes my breakfast consists of an butter-fried egg and mozzarella cheese on two pieces of buttered toast and eaten like a sandwich. Sometimes it’s an apple, grapefruit, orange and banana combined in a blender. Sometimes it’s a bowl of Cheerios. Sometimes it’s all three. I never eat crap like Fruit Loops or Pop Tarts or that sort of thing. And when I do eat something iffy like a cinnamon bun, it’s once or twice a year.<\/li>\n
  2. Don’t sweat it if you do eat crap.<\/strong> Occassionally. Since I eat a wide variety of healthy foods, I don’t feel guilty when I occasionally eat something indulgent (like a Cheesecake Cafe banana split cheesecake). I know that in the long run, occasional treats (high sugar, or high fat or high salt) do not ruin my health as long as I have a mostly healthy and varied diet.<\/li>\n
  3. Rarely stuff yourself.<\/strong> Some of you who know me may be laughing yourself silly at hearing me say this. The truth is though that I rarely stuff myself. When I do, it’s at an all-you-can eat buffet and my Scottish\/Dutch background forces me to get my money’s wroth. But it’s only a couple of times per year and doesn’t affect my long-term health.<\/li>\n
  4. Don’t worry about five pounds.<\/strong> If you are five pounds overweight (even ten pounds really), don’t worry about it. Especially, if it’s been that way for a long time. Five pounds will not affect your long term health, and accepting it will improve your self confidence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Overall, my philosophy is to simply be healthy. I eat what I want, but I eat healthy.<\/p>\n

    What tips do you have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Oh, you may be asking yourself, “Woah! Kim Siever is on a diet.” That all depends on what you call a diet. Let’s just say in the last eight years or so, I have not had a large weight gain (more than five pounds). So what’s my secret? Don’t eat crap. Eat healthy food and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-36","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2008\/07\/31\/your-cars-a-piece-of-crap\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"Your car’s a piece of crap","author":"Kim Siever","date":"31 July 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent conversation while waiting to turn right at a red light in Lethbridge. 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