Diet tips for the sensible dieter who wants to succeed – Part 6

You should have a gym regimen in place before you begin a diet. Trying to establish a diet regimen and an exercise regimen at the same time is too demanding. A good exercise plan includes weight training at least twice a week, with a coach at first if possible, while you are still learning a routine, plus walking briskly at least a half hour almost every day. By themselves, these actions won’t do the job, but dieting without them won’t either, certainly not for most women.

The most effective diet to combine with exercise is a modified Atkins-stype diet: heavy on proteins (meat, fish, cheese, eggs, nuts), eaten alone or with fruit; alternating with meals made entirely of carbs (vegetables both raw and cooked) which may also be combined with fruit. Most meals are proteins and only proteins, with all-carb meals staggered in among them every couple of days, an occasional all-veg or all-fruit day, and a very rare protein-carb mixed meal just to throw your metabolism a curve and not let it get too comfortable with any one pattern.

But their are additional rules that make this diet burn fat like crazy, and without which it does not work very well.

1. First, Don’t eat til full, but only til another bite will satisfy. Then *don’t* take that next bite. Stop right there, flat, til your next meal. (Try using Hoodia to restrain appetite over the longer stretches, like from lunch to dinner and from dinner to bedtime). It helps to put your portion for each meal in a bowl or on a plate and then not refill. Never eat directly from the pot or food container. It’s too hard to stop.

2. Drink water all day; you’ll have to just deal with visiting the bathroom often.

3. Favorite vegetable combos are ratatouille, and a light sautee of onions, garlic, carrots and celery, made in big batches and reheated in the microwave in smaller batches for lunch. Use some Accent (if you’re not allergic to it) to bring out the flavor of the vegetables, and liberal dustings of season salt and garlic powder – NOT garlic SALT – which makes vegetable dishes tasty. A frozen package of mixed cauliflower and broccoli, steamed, with a little walnut oil and some garlic and season salt, makes a good lunch. Steamed just til tender, these vegetables are slightly sweet and pleasantly crunchy. Avoid corn: it’s mostly starch.

4. Don’t eat your next meal until AT LEAST two and a half hours have passed since you finished the last one. You’re eating smaller meals so the time gap

Dieting While Partying: Check Out Various Diet Tips And Weig

It’s really difficult for a person to socialise if he is on a Diet. Totally ignoring parties and invitation is definitely not a solution.You have to strike a balance between your diet and social parties which, trust me, isnt easy at all . But we can always take necesaary precautions so as to avoid overeating.

Here is some valuable tips to keep everyone happy.

1. Try eating light snacks aroung 6 PM before leaving for the party. The problem with late night parties is that dinner isnt served before 11 and by that time rats are running in everyones stomach, so people end up eating a lot which they shouldnt.
2. At dinner, try eating vegetables only along with some fat free yoghurt . If you cant resist non-veg, go in for grilled chicken.
3. Caution: Do not drink soups at parties as they have cornflour which is by any means not good for people who are on diet.
4. Avoid unhealthy food like white bread, deep fried foods and oily vegetables.
5. Choose salads with combination of chicken and and greens with marinated vegetables. Chinese greens are great choice anyday.
6. Eat your food slowly and cherish it to the fullest.

Few more veryday Diet Tips for everyone:

1. If you prefer non-vegetarian food, eat more fish and lesser red meat. Infact one should avoid Red Meat . It not only increase Cholestrol but also makes you more susceptible to heart attack and other heart related diseases.
2. Your Diet should have less sodium and more fibre . Fibre improves your digestion and keeps your stomach in good shape.
3. People with cholestrol problem should not eat york at all.Keep them for kids.
4. Get into the habbit of eating fruits as desserts instead of high calorie ice creams and puddings.

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Five Common Diet Tips That Really Work – And Why

Losing weight is a national preoccupation. I challenge anyone to turn on the television or radio, surf online or open a magazine without finding an advertisement for a weight loss product or an endorsement for a new diet or eating plan. Everyone wants to be healthy and look their best, and for possibly the first time in the last half century, those two things happen to coincide. The current ideal of beauty is far closer to what’s attainable by a ‘real’ person than it has been in decades. Thanks to the recent popularity of actresses and singers who aren’t rail thin, coat hangers are out and healthy muscles and curves are in.

If you’ve been working toward that comfortable ideal body weight, chances are that you’ve read the same diet and weight loss tips time and time again. In some cases, it’s because someone said it and it got repeated endlessly. In others, though, it’s because the tip really works. Here are five of the most common diet tips that really work – and why.

Tip #1:Drink a full eight ounce glass of water 20 minutes before each

meal. It’s only partly because you trick your body into thinking that it’s full. The real trick is in giving your body all the water that it needs. The usual recommendation is at least an 8 oz glasses of water a day. That’s WATER – not soft drinks, not coffee. Just pure water. Your body needs water to maintain all its systems and to flush wastes away. When you don’t take in enough water, it starts trying to conserve it by retaining water in muscle and fat tissues. Water your body as faithfully as you would a plant, and you’ll find that it starts ridding itself of excess water regularly as well. Is it just water weight? Well, yes. But that water weight is weight you don’t have to carry around with you as long as you’re taking in enough water for your body’s needs.

Tip #2:Eat your fruits and veggies raw. Aside from the fact that raw fruits and vegetables pack more nutrition per calorie, in many cases you’re actually getting LESS calories when you eat your produce raw. Especially if you generally opt for canned fruits or vegetables, there are added preservatives and flavorings that can increase calories substantially. But there’s another reason as well: your body works harder to digest raw fruits and vegetables, and that means that it uses more calories in getting all the nutrients out of it. Your body NEEDS the extra roughage present in fruit and vegetables that haven’t been cooked and processed to keep it working right.

Tip #3:Eat a balanced diet. It’s obviously more healthy, but will it help you lose weight? The answer is yes, and here’s why. When your body lacks ANY nutrient in its daily intake, it tries to make up the difference by substituting other nutrients. The result can be false messages that you’re hungry, when what your body really craves is enough of ONE particular nutrient. Eating a balanced diet provides all the nutrients your body needs in the proper proportions so that it isn’t telling you it’s starving.

Tip #4:Half an hour of moderate exercise five times a week. Your body uses the food it eats to produce energy for your daily activities. The more energy you use, the more of your food your body will use to fuel it. When you eat fewer calories than your body needs, it will turn to stored reserves to keep it going. Adding one half hour of moderate exercise to your daily routine five times a week increases your body’s consumption of energy. But there’s more. Your body is using up calories even when you’re not exercising just to maintain circulation and health in its tissues. It uses up more calories maintaining muscles than fat. As you exercise, your body is converting fat to muscle — resulting in a higher metabolic rate as it increases its activity to keep your muscles in tone.

Tip #5:Snack between meals. Our bodies were never designed for the 3-times-a-day eating schedule we’ve adopted. They work round the clock, and need energy all the time. Rather than eating all your calories in three sittings, spread them out over 5 or 6. The trick is to eat smaller meals – not add more food. You’ll keep your digestive system busy, and your body at full energy all day long.

Losing Body Fat is Easy with These Diet Tips

The nutrition portions of the “six pack abs” interview. Diet tips for fat loss success…

CB: Let’s turn to nutrition. What is your fat loss nutrition philosophy?

MG: I could talk about nutrition for hours and it’s such a controversial subject, so I’ll keep this brief…

It doesn’t have to be as complicated as the “diet gurus” make it out to be. It can be a lot simpler…

1. whole, unprocessed organic foods, as close to their natural state as possible
2. High nutrient density food choices instead of nutrient deficient processed foods
3. Fruits and vegetables (lots of vegetables) as your main source of carbohydrates instead of so much reliance on grains as is so prominent in our food supply these days
4. Moderate amounts of high quality protein at each meal
5. High fiber intake to help appetite control and glycemic control (maintaining more balanced blood sugar)
6. Don’t neglect healthy fat intake from nuts, seeds, organic eggs, wild fish or fish oil, virgin coconut oil and olive oils, avocados, etc (helps appetite control and hormonal balance)

Once you gain control over the aspects listed above, everything else usually works itself out in your diet… you no longer crave sweets or junk food because your body finally has all of the nutrients it needs. Another important thing that this style of eating does is that it tends to bring people naturally back to the proper amount of calories they need each day without having to attempt to count calories or anything like that.

CB: How do you address “lifestyle” with your clients to help them lose fat?

MG: One of the most important things I try to instill in my clients is that this has to become part of their lifestyle if it is ever going to work long-term. They need to make their health and fitness a priority in their life, and they must enjoy it…whether it’s because they actually enjoy the actual exercise and healthy eating, or because they enjoy the feeling of strength or energy or confidence that it gives them.

CB: Give us some of your unique fat loss stories. For example, have you ever made one small change to a client’s program that helped them get through a plateau? Or has a client ever responded to one form of training that surprised you? Stuff like that…

MG: I had one client a couple years ago… a guy in his early 30’s…a classic case in reality. He’d been doing the same routine for years… about an hour of cardio 5 days/week while reading the newspaper, and then he’d finish it off with a few weight machines.

He finally came to me because his body was actually getting worse despite his long workouts. I asked him to put his trust in me, and asked if he’d be willing to try something drastically different…

I asked if he would fully give up his cardio for 6 weeks and follow one of my free weight training routines instead. I actually insisted that he didn’t do any cardio at all during this experimental 6 weeks of change… only weights would be allowed. This was hard for him at first as he was so accustomed to just doing all of this boring cardio because it was easy. But easy workouts don’t create a better body!

The results were incredible… I think his strength improved about 30-40 lbs on almost all of his lifts during that 6 weeks while simulataneously losing about 15 lbs of body weight, and his beer belly shrunk down considerably to the point where he had to go out and buy some new pants with smaller waists.

Another story… As far as clients getting new results from just a small tweak…

A few people that have been stuck at a fat loss plateau have come to me and I gave them a simple nutrition trick to try. This simple change was to start basing their last full meal of the day around just meats with lots of veggies and salad… basically, no starches with dinner, just meat and veggies.

As simple as that sounds, I’ve seen many people break their fat loss plateau just by implementing that into their diet. So many people think that their meals need to be based on starch like pasta or rice, but I think it’s so much easier to lose fat when your meals are based around meat and vegetables instead of starch.

I could go on, but I hope that gives some useful ideas for now to help break through that fat loss plateau.

4 Easy & Special Dieting Tips From The Pros

Here’s a little secret, well not really a secret unless you’ve been on another planet for the past few decades: dieting and health and fitness are big business and I mean mega industry scale.

The fact is that the fuel for this industry comes from the likes of you and me. In some, seemingly innocuous and conniving way we part with out hard earned Mazola in order to obtain the perfect body form and all in the name of beauty.

Look, you can get that body beautiful without breaking the bank and getting into heaps of debt and without taking a stroll along insolvency street. I’ll share three special dieting tips that won’t cost you a dime, three dieting tips as recommended by the experts!

Special Dieting Tips #1 – Water, Water Everywhere

How simple can these dieting tips get? Simply make sure that you drink at least 8 glasses of water each and every day. Make drinking water a part of your lifestyle and it doesn’t matter what dieting programme you’re currently following – drink that water and enjoy life’s simple pleasure.

Many dieters find drinking 8 glasses of water a problem. By the time you’ve gotten through glass number 2 you still have 6 more to finish. Well psychologically it’s easier to finish something than to have 7 more glasses of something.

Try filling a 64 once water pitcher first thing in the morning, fill it with ice and store it in a cooler. Your mission for the day, should you chose to accept it is to empty that jug by the time you go bed in the night.

Just consider the other advantageous side effect of an adequate intake of H2O: your skin will begin to visibly glow and your body will receive an all-over detox. Moreover, those who suffer with an over production of gut acid will benefit as stomach juices are minimalized.

Special Dieting Tips #2 – Lemon in the Morning

This is another well known, tried and tested dieting tip: take a full glass full of warm lemon water as soon as you get up in the morning. Using a microwave safe mug, warm the fresh water for about one minute. Then, simply add a teaspoon or two of fresh squeezed or bottled lemon juice. The fresh will always have a better flavour.

If you want to increase your metabolism further then try adding a teaspoon of honey.

Remember that the secret here is that the water should be warm and not cold. Cold water will simply not work for this trick.

You’ll find something else happening as you go through this routine each morning: your body will receive a morning revelle; the bugle call that reminds the body of your intention to get fit and healthy. Try this simple dieting tip for yourself and see the difference it’ll make in just a short time.

Special Dieting Tips #3 – Consistent Weigh Ins

By this I mean always have your weigh in at the same time of day each and every day and always use the same scale. Just put two scales side-by-side and you’ll see what I mean.

Any way, don’t weigh each and every day. This is a sure fire way of discouraging yourself. Most experts will recommend weekly or fortnightly weigh-ins, that’s plenty for anybody. However, aim for the same day each time. A midweek day is best then you have two days to burn of those indulgences from the weekend.

Also you may find it better to weigh yourself first thing on the morning so you don’t have the excuse of blaming the results on anything you had for breakfast. Weigh yourself in the same kind of clothes; pyjamas for instance and chart down the figure, whatever it is.

Special Dieting Tips #4 – give yourself a day off

This has to be the best dieting tip that I’ve ever come across and the one that makes the greatest sense. When you consider that the most difficult aspect of dieting is the mental attitude towards food. You are trying to beat your flesh and in this respect you’ll find that you fail most of the time. You see your mind wants to be in control yet it’s in a battle against your body. “The spirit is willing but the body is weak.”

My most successful weight loss has come when I only aim to diet 6 days out of every seven. In other words, one day per week, whatever day is most suitable for you, you are not on a diet.

This is an enormous boost to your will power and self esteem. When you embark on a diet you’re in a constant battle and whenever you fail you take a trip on the roller coaster of guilt. When you have a weekly day off a diet is much easier to maintain for a prolonged period and you do away with the guilt. You’re on a win – win roundabout.

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Diet tips for the sensible dieter who wants to succeed – Part 8

With this being April, dieting season has begun. Get ready to wear your bathing suit on the beach, because this could be the start of a whole new you. I am dieting myself, so I know all about some simple things you could to help yourself lose weight and get into that bathing by June.

1) Meet with a personal trainer or a nutritionist. You need your goals in front of you in order to lose weight, and you will be able to accomplish your goal of losing weight alot easier if you have an expert who could cater to your needs. These people have seen everyone who wants to lose only ten pounds to people who have lost over one hundred pounds. They have seen everything, and done everything. What you want is definitely able by them.

2) Know your trigger foods, and learn to avoid them. Trigger foods are those foods that either you eat too much of, or those foods you continue to buy just because you want them in the house. If you keep them in the house, believe me, you will end up eating it, so do yourself a favor and stop yourself from buying them at the store. It also helps if you buy prepackaged foods, such as foods that are 100-calorie packs. This ensures you will stick to a certain number of calories each day.

3) Invest in a measuring cup and/or a food scale. So many of us just add food in the pot without knowing how much we actually put in. With these “food tools,” you know how much you are cooking, and you know that you will not be gaining weight instead of losing by eating an unknown number of calories.

4) Do not weigh yourself each day. You do not want to be disappointed if it takes you more than a day to lose the first pound. Remember that even if it takes a little longer to lose weight, it eventually will happen. Give it some time. It is important not to get obsessive about these things.

5) Look at weight loss as a long-term thing, not short-term. After you have lost every pound you wanted to lose, continue eating the same way you have been. If you go back to your other ways of eating, you risk gaining back all those pounds you worked so hard to lose. This is a lifestyle change, and it may take some getting used to, but you will see benefits soon enough, believe me.

6) Keep a diet journal, so you know every little thing you are eating. People say that they are not losing weight, but they forget about the handful of candy they ate at work, or the spoonful of cake they had. All these little things add up. Do not think that just because it is small, your body will not digest it the same way.

7) Do not compare yourself to other people. People come in all shapes and sizes, and it is harder for some people to lose weight from certain parts of their body. Just stick with your routine, and know that you have to work with what you have.

Do not make excuses for eating the wrong things or for not exercising. Certain emergencies do come up, but if the excuse it that you are too tired to go to the gym after work or that your friends wanted to eat out at a fast food restaurant instead of a healthy restaurant, you are only hurting yourself. Discipline is very important to achieve any goal in life. If you have to work late, consider exercising on your lunch hour. When you are going out to eat with your friends, be the person to choose the restaurant, or order the healthiest thing on the menu. Your friends should be sympathetic to you if you are really important to them.

Well, I wish all you dieters out there alot of luck, and remember to believe in yourselves. You could do this. Do not let anything stay in your way because you are strong enough to overcome it.

South Beach Diet Tips

‘South Beach Diet’ is a name that comes on the lips of every person who has even an iota of interest in the world of diet and dieting. It is formulated by renowned Miami based cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston. The diet is a result of research undertaken by Dr. Agatston who wanted to reduce the incidence of strokes and other cardiovascular ailments in his patients. However, word-of-mouth ensured that the diet attained popularity throughout America.

South Beach diet stresses on avoiding the intake of bad carbohydrates, which are mainly found in processed items and products made from refined flour. It also asks the dieters to avoid food containing saturated fats

If you have already started following South Beach diet or are in the process of starting with it, it will augur well if you keep the following tips in mind.

Tip No 1:

Make sure that you take at least eight glasses of water. In fact, if you are following the South Beach diet, it is ideal if you can increase the intake of water. The first phase of South Beach diet restricts the amount of carbohydrates that enter your body. In the absence of carbohydrates, the body is compelled to use the fat stored in the cells. This also leads to drainage of water from the cells. Hence, when following South Beach diet, it is advisable to increase consume large amounts of water.

Tip No 2:

As far as beverages are concerned, South Beach diet does not allow the intake of soft drinks. Similarly, beverages containing caffeine are to be avoided. However, you are allowed to sip decaffeinated beverages such as club soda, tea, coffee, or decaffeinated sugar-free soda.

Tip No 3:

Vitamin and mineral supplements are necessary if you follow South Beach diet. Since many food items become off limit, the body may be deprived of essential nutrients. This is especially true in the first phase, during which the dieter is supposed to refrain from fruits, wheat and other grains etc. Hence the necessity to take vitamin and mineral supplements.

Tip No 4:

Ideally, while preparing meals for South Beach diet, you should try to balance all the three vital constituents i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and fats. The meal taken by you should be complete, wholesome and nutritious.

Tip No 5:

In case, you are accustomed to having a sustained workout or exercise which lasts for more than 90 minutes, it is advisable to go in for a low – glycemic index carbohydrate snack, otherwise you will feel tired and might not be able to prevent yourself from overeating. The snack should be ideally consumed about an hour before the scheduled workout.

Tip No 6:

As a South Beach diet follower, it will do well if you try out different permutations and combinations. This will allow you to come up with food items that you like and avoid those that you don’t. Take for instance cottage cheese. It is a good alternative to the full breakfast and many people find it convenient and tasty.

So follow these tips and you have launched yourself onto the road of success.

7 Idiot Proof Diet Tips – How to Lose Weight in Days!

Need some idiot proof diet plans? If you want to lose weight fast, then you just have to read this article. Below are simple and easy tips to help you shrink your belly fat for good-

Idiot Proof Diet Tips

1. The Major Idiot Proof Diet Tip is to keep your tummy satisfied by eating more often – In other words, try to get in 6 healthy mini meals a day. However, the key here is, you must eat in controlled portions. So stick to the rule of one serve only to control your calorie intake – and more importantly keep you belly happy!.

2. Don’t serve meals family style – dish up your meal in the kitchen, then eat in another room so you won’t pick off the serving platters. When dinner is over, store leftovers pronto.

3. Get rid of the junk food – if your shelves are currently filled with cookies, chips ad other diet bombs, stash them out of sight – or better yet, throw then into the rubbish bin. Then hit the store to stock up on
healthy foods like fresh fruits and veggies, low fat yogurt, lean meats, whole grains, oat-meals and nuts. These foods are simply better for you. However, the occasional treat – like once a week will not harm you – it can be motivating.

4. Carbs are plentiful and readily available but you don’t have to drastically reduce carbs. Choose the good kinds of natural carbs over the processed kinds – better yet, think fiber, not carbs. Focus on a high fiber fitness meals. Why? Fiber simply simply keeps you full longer. The key is to focus your carb intake from fruits, vegetables and whole-grain products, which are loaded with loads of nutrients, complex carbs and stomach filling fiber!

5. Eating reasonable amounts of natural fats coming from foods like avocados, nuts, and seeds may help you lose more weight by getting you fuller faster and providing the healthy fats your body needs.

6. Go Long – Weight Loss doesn’t happen over night A lot of us feel pumped up about starting a new diet, usually because of the expectations we have that DIET A will bring us to point B which is small and skinny. However what it doesn’t tell you about how to lose belly fat is that there’s a good chance you could gain the weight back. Without a long term plan, and understanding of how our body works, and what it means to lose weight naturally we could be doomed to yo-yo forever.

7. Bonus Idiot Proof Diet Tip – If you really want to shape up fast, you just have to MOVE. And as your health and fitness improves, aim to get a bit puffed. If you can find the time to do 20 minutes or more of vigorous activity (jogging, fast cycling, fast swimming, singles tennis, fast rowing,hockey,squash,aerobics) several days a week. But if you are new to all this, walk a bit faster, include the hills and steps in your regular routine, gradually increasing the intensity and level of difficulty. Fact is, high variable intensity training like interval training and any kind of stop, start workouts are one of the most effective ways to boost your metabolism.

6 Dieting Tips For Healthy Weight Loss

Any body who worries about the excess weights must take on a plan, a healthy diet plan. This diet plan should help in achieving the goal to lose weight. At the same time, it must be able to supply the body with the proper nutrients.

Here are some dieting tips for healthy weight loss:

1. Drink Lots of Water

Water, this is still the best friend of your body. Do not deprive your body of the good fluid. Drinking eight glasses of water a day is still the way to go. Make sure that it is healthy water you are drinking, not the unstable tap water.

2. Eat a Generous and Healthy Breakfast

Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It will supply the energy to the body, thus a big breakfast becomes a necessity.

The heavy breakfast, however, must consist now of fruits like bananas and apples. Wheat and rye bread are good to go with meats like tuna, salmon or lamb. Plain yogurt can replace the usual tea or chocolate.

3. Take on a Cleansing Diet

Yeast can grow in the colons of the digestive system and may cause further problems in your health. This can be cleansed. Simply inquire in local health store for some good products. The online community is also a good place to look for.

4. Fruits and Vegetables

The fibers and nutrients of fruits and vegetables are still the best elements to contribute to the body.

5. Eat Slowly

People tend to have big appetites. They eat faster than their stomachs can digest. Thus, eating a little bit slowly will help in making the body take in less food.

6. Avoid Temptation

There are sweets like chocolates, shakes and candies that are difficult to avoid, especially for those who have gotten used to these foods. Avoid them as much as possible. They bring bad calories and sugar to the body. Just stick to a healthy diet.

Conclusion

Weight loss needs very good dedication on the part of the person who diets. It actually changes your lifestyle. Yet, the rewards are really high, so do not hesitate to take the first step to a healthy diet.

Diet tips for the sensible dieter who wants to succeed – Part 7

A guide to weight loss surgery

In the fast paced world of skipping meals, grabbing food on the go, and “Super Size” it, we have lost track of portion size. Read labels and measure your food until you re-align your eye. Do you realize a half cup of pasta is a portion. One cup of raw vegetables and half cup of cooked vegetables is one portion. A portion of meat is about the size of the palm of your hand withoout the fingers. Be aware and accountable for what you are eating.

Take a personal inventory of the foods you like. Then find a diet that fits with your lifestyle and the foods you like to eat. Find a way to prepare those foods in a healthier way reducing fat and oils.

Fruits and Vegetables are key. I am not a fan of fruits and vegetables. I eat a 2 cup salad greens and chop up a piece of fruit to graze on throughout the day for three servings of vegetables. As a person who avoids the fruits and vegetable, I make myself accountable by having a checklist to make sure I eat the minimum five servings.

Meal skippers don’t succeed because the body heads into starvation mode. It often times isn’t what you eat, but metabolism not working correctly. Meal skipping is often times a culprit. It is better to have mini meals throughout the day (every 3-4 hours).

Fresh whole foods prepared yourself is always better than the prepackaged foods. When we eat out, or buy pre-packed “to go” foods we really have no idea how much oil and preservatives is in that food. Organic frozen meals, are not necessarily the way to go. Read your labels and see how much oil/fat is in that food. You will be surprised how many extra calories you find in products labeled “Organic” and “All Natural”. Look for Low Carb, Low Fat, or Fat Free products.

Whole grains are better than white grains and have more fiber. The fiber helps the digestion and fills you up. Look for whole wheat pastas, whole grain bread, and brown rice products.

Drink your 8 glasses of water. The more water you drink the easier it is for your body to flush through all the excess.

You need to have a support system in place, to get you through the “rough patches” when you might not be achieving the goals you set forth. There may a time you gain a pound in your dieting efforts. We aren’t about when we own the fact we ate too many sweets, or that night out on the town but sometimes you will be right on track with your diet and you won’t lose an ounce. This can be discouraging. Realize that sometimes your body loses inches, and it takes time for results to be seen on the scale.

Set small goals to begin exercising. I know a guy who set a goal of getting out of the house and going to the gym. He made it to the parking lot, then went on to work for about 2 months before he ever made it inside. Start small. How about marching in place in front of the TV while the commercials are on? A one hour TV program has an average of 20 minutes in commercials. Be creative, just get moving and start small, then increase the amount of time.

When you are out or in a social setting, be prepared. bring your own snacks, or make a diet friendly offering so you have something there to eat. You can also do a dress-rehearsal in your mind, especially for the big holidays when all the family will be eating the same things they eat for this same occasion every year.

Remember, don’t give up. If your diet isn’t working for you, get help, evaluate what you are doing that might be wrong and make little changes as you go along. It’s all part of the journey.

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