Strategic Kitchen Remodeling To Promote Healthy Weight Loss

12 January 2015 by Marvin Carroll

As you work on a design for your kitchen remodeling project, consider that the right kitchen design can help you and others in your household lose weight and keep it off. Since your kitchen is the place where you store food and prepare meals and snacks, tweaking the design in certain ways can encourage a healthier lifestyle.

Add Enclosed Storage Space for Food

When people don't have enough cabinet space or a pantry, they tend to leave bread, bags of potato chips, containers of cookies and boxes of cereal sitting out in the open. That makes for a continuous temptation to eat every time you walk by these items.  

Have your remodeling project include more cabinets for food or a pantry with a door. Also, add a pullout basket or two under the cabinets where you can store your bread products. Then, keep a basket of bananas, apples and other fruit on the counter or kitchen table for healthy snacks.

Include an Appliance Garage or Cabinet

If you're like many other individuals, you leave the toaster out all the time. You may not even bother to cover it. That's a standing invitation to make toast at any time of day, which is even more tempting when a loaf of bread sits out on the counter. 

Putting the toaster in an appliance garage requires an extra step in the toast-making process. This can make you think twice about whether you really want some bread and butter or jam. Keep a bowl of sliced veggies in the refrigerator so grabbing some of those is easier. 

Add More Meal Preparation Space

If you don't have enough space to conveniently prepare home-cooked meals, make salads and whip up healthy snacks, you're less likely to do so. Have the contractor extend the length of a countertop or add an island to the room. Then keep this extra flat surface clear of any clutter. 

Ditch the Microwave

This might be a tough prospect. However, without a microwave oven, you're less likely to buy heavily processed food -- such as frozen entrees -- that you can heat up in a few minutes. Those frozen meals tend to be high in fat, salt and calories -- as well as ingredients that are incomprehensible. 

Concluding Thoughts

You may be working up your own kitchen design sketches or looking for photos online and in magazines. Consult with a remodeling contractor from a firm like Matrix Construction Ltd about how to incorporate the features you want into the space you have available. Soon you'll have a more pleasing and functional kitchen that also will promote a healthier lifestyle. 

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