Six pac abs and your habits
I know, I have been talking extensively about habits and that we are products of them. Our habits create our life. Our habits create our six pack abs. Everything that’s happening to us now is a result of our habits. Forget the big actions everybody is telling you about that you should focus on. They don’t make much of a difference. The small stuff done every day, day in and day out do.
Do you enjoy crackers with beer on most of the evenings while watching your favorite show? Hey, I enjoy the snack in front of TV too. The difference between my and your snack makes the huge difference. While crackers and beer put a lot of empty calories inside your body, my snacks – fresh fruits and vegetables with unsweetened peppermint tee help me stay lean and keep my six pack abs visible.
That is example of a habit that can be easily changed. You might be surprised, that it really doesn’t matter what you eat, and it really is a matter of doing something with your hands and mouth. So switching crackers or chips and beer for fresh healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables and sipping peppermint tee is pretty easy. You won’t even realize it.
You keep your mouth and hands busy with good six pack abs snacks. It requires more preparation, but once these snacks are ready on the table, it doesn’t matter, you enjoy them. It’s way easier to grab a bottle, pour yourself a glass of wine and take a box of chips, than brew a tea and cut some fresh fruit and put some nuts on the table. But little bit of effort in the beginning will make a huge difference.
This step requires you to look honestly on your habits. The kind of habits you do every day. You don’t have to write them down, just think about them for a little while. Can you see them? I am sure, you are at least guessing which habits are good and which are bad. We will talk about habits that need to be broken or changed to help you reach your goal of having a six pack abs in a little bit. And installing the ones that help you get there too. But, deep down, you already know which ones they are. Just think about them for now.
Getting rid of bad habits one step at a time
Yes, the habits, or the regular actions create what you are now. Look at your belly. Is it too big? Or is it alright? It is what it is because of your habits. And it will be what it will be if your habits change.
The thing about habits is, that they are really not that hard to develop. Ok, it requires some self discipline, but not as much as you might think. The key in this six pack abs program is to change habits. So you keep your habits, even the bad ones and you modify them for good, six pack abs supporting ones. It really isn’t that hard. The challenge is what to do, not how to do it. And for that I am here to help you.
Your six pack abs morning routine habits
Everybody’s morning routine is unique at some level. But it is very important that there are habits that support your six pack abs and the habits that don’t are eliminated.
Having breakfast or not having breakfast
You will be very surprised when I tell you, that it doesn’t really matter if you eat breakfast or not. The common popular advice goes, that you should eat breakfast. Nothing can be further from truth. If you eat breakfast, that is completely fine and it is a good habit to have, as long as you eat right foods and drink right beverages. We will get to that little later in this program.
I want to get this out of the way. It’s not about eating or not eating breakfast that maters. It’s about what you put inside your mouth, what goes to your belly that does. I don’t eat breakfast. I feel fantastic all day, I am very lean – I do have six pack abs clearly visible and I am very healthy. Again not eating breakfast is ok, eating breakfast is ok too, as long as you eat the right stuff.
Drinking sweetened beverages like coffee, tea, chocolate milk, fruit juices are habits that need to be eliminated.
Sugar is a six pack killer. You can eliminate sugar very simply from your morning routine. You drink only stuff that don’t contain it. So you will be left with – unsweetened coffee (milk and cream in it is fine), unsweetened teas, water, mineral water and that’s it. Maybe glass of milk if you wish to.
Eating processed stuff like baked goods – muffins, doughnuts, Danishes, sweetened cereal, cookies and other foods that seem like a good healthy choices for the morning meal need to be eliminated from your morning routine.
You can eat only naturally occurring foods like – eggs, vegetables, fruit, plain cereals, (they can be mixed with fresh fruit), greens and other naturally unprocessed, unsweetened occurring foods like lean meats, not sausages and head cheeses and other meat industry producing poisons. Stay away from those.
And that’s pretty much it. If you manage to stay away from bad habits I described just now, your morning routine will be fine and six pack abs supportive. Of course, I am not mentioning the obvious stuff like eating candy bars, energy bars, hard candy or drinking any alcohol in the morning. I hope that’s pretty clear.
One more note to morning routines. People mistakenly think that other alternative sweeteners like honey, brown sugar, blue agave or maple sirup is a good healthy choice for them instead of sugar. It is not! It’s the same bad for you as sugar is. In this case it’s all bad sugar. All, artificial sweeteners included. That kind of chemical shouldn’t be touched at all.
Your six pack abs mid morning habits
Most common mid morning habits include:
Mid morning snack and drink is often a sweet stuff like candy bar or energy bar or snacks like chips, honey roasted nuts, fruit juice, diet or regular soda and others, you get the picture. Anything that’s packaged in attractive packaging is included in this category.
So instead of eating these little, I call them sweet poisons, you should only eat and we are here again – natural foods – fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts, fresh meats.
Drinking soda, even the one with 0 sugar in it is a terrible habit to have. It’s damaging your possibility of ever having a six pack abs and it needs to be eliminated. Go for unsweetened coffee, all kinds of unsweetened teas, water, mineral water and – that’s it! Does it seem boring? Get over it and find excitement somewhere else and don’t play Russian roulette with your health called soda and sugar water drinking.
Your six pack abs lunch time habits
So how does your lunchtime usually look like. I bet, it is usually the same for most part every day with occasional change of restaurant choice. So let me point few habits that need to be looked at and improved over time.
Lunch consisted of some protein and lots of carbohydrates.
If you eat your lunch at work, you are likely visiting nearby restaurants and sort of rotating them. I know, I did that before. The problem with the restaurant meals, even though tasty for most part is that, they are very heavy on carbohydrate and usually light on protein. Why? Carbohydrate, especially the simple one – pasta, rice, potatoes are cheep. Way cheaper than veggies and fruit. Plus all the stuff is enhanced with chemicals to make it taste good. Not the greatest strategy for your health.
Simplest way to brake this bad habit, is to stop eating your lunch in restaurants. And that might be a hard habit to brake. So, no, don’t stop eating in restaurant. Or, not just yet.
Here is the solution. Bring some fresh fruit and veggies from home. You should have them always stocked at home or in your work filing cabinet drawer. When you go to have your lunch next, order only protein. Let’s say, in your Indian restaurant you only order curry chicken with no rice. You can order some vegetables or maybe lentils with it. But, if they don’t have some kind of fresh veggies or legume kind of carbohydrate to come with your lunch, have just the chicken. Now enjoy your lunch with you clueless colleagues staring at you and leave without ordering desert. Now when you come back to the office or job site reach for those good carbs you brought from home. Enjoy as much as you want of these.
I already mentioned not ordering and having desert with your lunch or any kind of sweets after. This is important habit to develop. You should have a desert. But your deserts will be naturally sweet, juicy, healthy fresh fruit – apples, pears, all kinds of berries, peaches, apricots and other fresh fruit. You can have a different delicious desert every day in form of a fresh fruit.
Drinks in you lunch routine should be plain not sugary. Fresh lemon water is a great choice, herbal teas or any teas as long as they are not sweetened. Coffee without sugar or mineral waters are fine. So, to support your six pack abs goal, start replacing those juices and sodas and energy drinks with these plain nourishing liquids.
Consider being active in your lunch time.
I used to work in the office before. It was a great company – kind of boring but no pressure cooker job, the kind that are hard to find these days. Smart employes would dress before the lunch brake and go spend the entire lunch brake hour walking around the nearby lake on beautiful sunny days. When they came back from their walk, they pulled their lunches, prepared at home and ate them while they worked.
I understand, that not everybody has this option. But if you do, use it to your advantage. I will be talking more about introducing unconventional physical activities to your day in my later chapters. For now, just look how you spend time around lunch. Sitting? Walking? Running? Standing?
Your six pack abs mid afternoon habits
Mid afternoon habits are mostly about the same. The bad ones consist of grabbing some sweet candy bar for a quick sugar rush or some potato chips for mouths entertainment. Than some more coffee with sugar in it or can of diet or regular soda, maybe fruit juice – the liquid candy.
The good ones consist of few pieces of fresh fruit or fresh vegetables, or raw nuts, plain yogurt, some unsweetened herbal tea or coffee and plenty of plain water.
Avoid the fist case and get used to the second one if you ever want to have six pack abs.
Your six pack abs evening habits
Evening habits are usually those that matter the most to our six pack abs. We come home after the long day. And naturally we want to relax, reboot a little and enjoy ourselves little bit. Here are some common evening habits.
You stop at restaurant for dinner after work. You might want to start working on this habit right now. Restaurant food, even though healthy looking – consisted of greens and some protein is often too greasy, too salty, too sweet. Yes, those restaurants not only charge you premium for your meal, they make that meal tastier with mixing some chemicals in it. And than your six pack abs and your health suffer.
I don’t care that you ordered chicken caesar salad or grilled salmon with asparagus. Restaurant food is restaurant food. And you shouldn’t eat at restaurants often. You should start getting used to preparing your own healthy meals. Boring? Not really. It will get very exciting once your six pack abs start becoming reality and your energy levels rise exponentially. And these meals can be prepared in 5 minutes or less.
BTW, did you ever look around yourself at the people that sit in restaurants? Those that are there often look very unhealthy. They don’t have to be necessarily fat, but something in their faces screams at me, don’t eat this funny, rich, tasty food. I know, it’s hard to resist, but you should resist it.
At home
You come home and prepare quick dinner for yourself and your family. If you do this already, congratulations, it is a good supportive six pack abs habit to have. As long as what you prepare is the right stuff. And we will talk about that later. And it doesn’t have to be time consuming.
Do you usually work out in the evening? If you do and you enjoy it great! If you don’t and you don’t see yourself ever going to the gym after a long grueling day at work, I don’t blame you. There is a way around it. And I will show you how.
Another common habit I observe on people is, that a lot of them like to enjoy a glass of vine with dinner. Let me just tell you, that this is definitely fine habit to have, and you don’t really need to change it. I don’t want to take your evening glass of wine from you. Wine is one of those good things in life. Just make sure it’s only 1 glass, maybe occasionally 2 glasses.
Alcohol can be a major source of additional calories. It’s basically just sugar. And you don’t want to go overboard with it. Among people I train, the single one most important reason they are not able to reach their six pack abs goal is, because they drink too much vine. Don’t let that happen to you. Glass of wine is fine. Just stop there.
Many of us like to enjoy some kind of desert after dinner. Ice cream being the most popular based on my observation between people in late thirties and forties. This habit can have a substantial effect on your six pack abs. So if you can start eliminating it now, that would be great. I have a rule that I almost never compromise. Ok maybe occasionally on somebody’s B-day party. Here it is: your desert after diner always equals fresh fruit. Yes, fresh fruit. Boring? Maybe! Six pack abs and overall health supportive? You bet! So get use to having variety of fresh fruits and berries in your house: pears, papayas, kiwi, mangoes, apples – my favorite, oranges, strawberies, raspberries, blueberries, plums, apricots, peaches and many many others. The warious tastes of fresh fruit can be quite exciting when you unspoil your taste buds.
Your six pack abs late night habits
Most common six pack abs related and influenced habits in late night time of the day are snacking.
Are you snacking on crackers, chips, cookies, ice cream and sipping wine, beer, soda? You are seriously diminishing chances of ever having six pack abs in your lifetime. But, the great thing is, that this habit doesn’t need to be changed. You can keep snacking and sipping while watching TV. What matters though is, what you snack and sip.
I used to have this habit deeply ingrained. I would finally got home in the evening, I would have a healthy whole food dinner, have a beer with it, fuss around the house for a little while before I grabbed a box of guilt reduced salty crackers and another Corona and sat in front of the TV. I would watch something like Australian open in tennis until midnight while enjoying my crackers and you guessed it right another beer. That’s a terrible sleuth of habits to have.
Unsweetened herbal teas, plain water, fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts is the way to go. Don’t change this habit. Change what you eat and drink.
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