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Is There A Healthy Weight Loss Diet That Doesn’t Taste Like Cardboard? YES!

By on Monday, April 16th, 2012 | 3 Comments

 

By                        Sue Bristol, R.N.

I’l show you exactly how to find this “diet“, and lose weight while eating like a king, or queen. You’ve been programmed to think that healthy foods taste bad, right? Guess who’s doing the ‘programming: “The Fast Food Industry”.

You’re overweight, or you wouldn’t be reading this. You Can Get Started on this Wholesome Diet Right Here!

In reality, this “healthy weight loss diet” is really not a diet. It’s just applying common sense after I help you learn exactly how to do that.

Learn how Right Here! (If you’re ready,that is. Others keep reading.)

Stop counting calories and lose weight forever! Wow! That sounds simply too good to be true, doesn’t it. Well, there is a way to do exactly that. We don’t need to count calories in order to lose weight and keep it off.

Is that possible? And can You do it?   You bet!

THE reason so many of us are overweight is because we are eating too much of the wrong foods at the wrong times. Let’s take a look:

What is “too much”?

Too much is exactly what  all of us, including our kids, have been eating. Eating too much is what has caused the national epidemic of obesity.

Why are we eating so much? Here’s one big factor: our parents and grandparents ate out very occasionally…if ever. They ate healthy diet food. We, on the other hand, because of our busy schedules tend to eat out more than we eat at home. The problem with that habit is that we are eating too many calories and too much fat, sodium, and sugar…and we have plenty of extra pounds to prove it.

Haven’t we all seen the signs? “Big Bruno’s Bratwurst Bonanza”; “All You Can Eat and Carry Too”; “Betty and Bob’s Belly Buster Buffet”.

These restaurant managers know that customers have been conditioned to expect huge portions of food. In fact, the eating establishments often compete with each for our money by using portion size as a drawing attraction.

We get used to huge portions so that even when we do opt to eat at home, we don’t think twice about ladling mountains of food onto our plates. We don’t like waddling away from the table holding our bellies lest we explode, but that’s just how it is.

What are the wrong foods? Are there right foods?

“Wrong” foods are the ones that we’re getting too much of. They are pre-packaged dinners and processed foods and bakery pastries and extra fats and salt and sugar and…calories! It is calories that are at the bottom line of weight gain.

The “right”foods we need to get accustomed to eating are packed with nutrients and low in preservatives and additives as well as fat and calories: chunks of reduced fat cheese, fruits,vegetables, whole wheat breads, cereals, crackers, and pasta.

What are the wrong times to eat?

Many of us are in the habit of munching all day long. “Constantly” is definitely the wrong time to eat. We no longer eat when we are hungry because we have lost touch with those inborn signals from the brain that tell us we are full and should stop eating. We no longer know when we are hungry because we seldom are really hungry, that is. We eat because the food is there and we eat until it’s gone because it is our habit to do so. We need to develop a new way of eating…one that includes three moderate size meals with healthful snacks in between…and all in modest portions. After a few weeks, we will begin to be able to identify when we are hungry and when we are full and to eat, and not eat, accordingly.

The Diet Solution Plan was put together, for you, by a trained Nutritionist.  And I am An R.N. who fully agrees with everything that Isabel (the Nutritionist) will teach you. And, it’s really simple! Get started today, if you’re ready.

Sue Bristol, R.N. answers the question regarding How to burn Calories? in a very practical and easy way.

Here’s the “Secret Weight Loss Diet” that virtually EVERY successful dieter uses. (Whether or not they are even aware of it!)

Click Here to get your Free e-book, which will give you the “Weight Loss Secret” You don’t need to be overweight: Learn how to lose weight on Your own schedule!

Why Take Control of Your Weight? Is it: Appearance?, Health Related?, Self Confidence?

By on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 | No Comments

By      Sue Bristol, R.N.

There are many good reasons to lose weight. We will look better and feel better if we’re healthy. Our energy and sleep will improve. We will minimize our risk of developing serious weight-related medical conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

(If these health reasons are enough for you, check out the FREE answer right here)

What are the “reasons” (excuses) to not lose weight? “Diets never work for me”, “I’m miserable during the whole process of trying to lose weight“, “I’m too busy to go on a diet right now”. These are good “reasons”,  except for the fact that they indicate that something is wrong with the attempts you have made in the past to lose weight.

For example: “diets never work for me”. But, the correct approach to weight loss will always work.

Many times when people say diets don’t work, they mean that after all of their hard work they soon gain the weight back. Most often that is because they are no longer on the diet! The reason they stopped was that the “diet” they were on was too expensive, difficult, restrictive, impractical, or complicated. Well, this is a bad diet. A program to lose weight should be inexpensive, easy, satisfying, workable, and straightforward.

The only effective way to lose fat and keep it off is to follow a program of lower calories, in combination with a modest exercise program. Reducing calories in plus increasing calories out equals sustainable loss of fat.

The ideal food plan is one that revolves around the intake of moderate amounts of healthy foods eaten at regular intervals. This approach is key to a lifetime of weight management. Let’s look at a few ways to get started.

1. Control your portion sizes. Eat what you have been eating except half of the amount. Fill your plate with half fruits and vegetables; the remaining half should be equally divided into grains (preferably whole grain breads, crackers, pasta) and protein (meat, fish, chicken, beans). If you eat out, divide your food and take half of it home for lunch tomorrow. No more second helpings. You don’t need them.

2. Cut out all drinks that have been sweetened with sugar. Sugar is a source of empty calories. It provides very little nutritional value but plenty of fuel for weight gain.

3. Learn to read labels to find out how big a serving size is, how many calories it contains, and what portion is saturated fat (which should be avoided).

Following these simple steps will get you on your way to a healthy loss of weight. Weigh yourself weekly and record your loss. Don’t weigh everyday…water loss and retention can lead you to believe your plan isn’t working or that it is working well only to find that the next day you have regained your “loss”.

By      Sue Bristol, R.N.

Here’s the one “non-diet” that every successful “dieter” uses, whether or not they’re even aware of it!

Learn their  free “secret” here, Right now

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weight Loss Simply CanNot Be Successful With: Fad Diets – “Miracle” Pills – “Magic” Berries – “Colon Cleanses” – Fast Food – “Buy Our Meals”, etc.

By on Friday, April 13th, 2012 | No Comments

Sue Britsol here,

Hi! Here I am again, I’ll do my best to reply to all he comments about my last post. Thanks for reading my blog; I’ll shoot straight with you.

Did you ever wonder: Why is it that so many of us choose to be fat, rather than taking charge of our own life?  In the area of weight for sure.

Weight loss is the topic, and I believe that many regular folks don’t actually make that choice; rather it’s the fast food, diet pill, diet berry, colon cleanse industries,  nonsense that we’re bombarded with it’s daily advertising that “makes the choice” for far too many people.

Did you ever consider saying “No, damn-it, I do not want to “super-size” the order!

Are you ready to take control of your own body? You can start now!

There are many good reasons to lose weight. We will look better and feel better. Our energy and sleep will improve. We will minimize our risk of developing serious weight-related medical conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

What are the “reasons” (excuses) to not lose weight? “Diets never work for me”, “I’m miserable during the whole process of trying to lose weight”, “I’m too busy to go on a diet right now”. These are good “reasons” except for the fact that they indicate that something is wrong with the attempts you have made in the past to lose weight.

For example: “diets never work for me”. A correct approach to weight loss will always work. Many times when people say diets don’t work, they mean that after all of their hard work they soon gain the weight back. Most often that is because they are no long on the diet. The reason they stopped was that the “diet” they were on was too expensive, difficult, restrictive, impractical, or complicated. Well, this is a bad diet. A program to lose weight should be inexpensive, easy, satisfying, workable, and straightforward.

The only effective way to lose fat and keep it off is to follow a program of lower calories, in combination with a modest exercise program. Reducing calories in plus increasing calories out equals sustainable loss of fat.

The ideal food plan is one that revolves around the intake of moderate amounts of healthy foods eaten at regular intervals. This approach is key to a lifetime of weight management. Let’s look at a few ways to get started.

1. Control your portion sizes. Eat what you have been eating except half of the amount. Fill your plate with half fruits and vegetables; the remaining half should be equally divided into grains (preferably whole grain breads, crackers, pasta) and protein (meat, fish, chicken, beans). If you eat out, divide your food and take half of it home for lunch tomorrow. No more second helpings. You don’t need them.

2. Cut out all drinks that have been sweetened with sugar. Sugar is a source of empty calories. It provides very little nutritional value but plenty of fuel for weight gain.

3. Learn to read labels to find out how big a serving size is, how many calories it contains, and what portion is saturated fat (which should be avoided).

Following these simple steps will get you on your way to a healthy loss of weight. Weigh yourself weekly and record your loss. Don’t weigh everyday…water loss and retention can lead you to believe your plan isn’t working or that it is working well only to find that the next day you have regained your “loss”.

Start Right Now: Eating Coirrectly  (I hate to call it a diet, since it simply says to form good eating habits).

I’m an R.N.,  and Isabel Del Rios, (my colleague), is a Certified Nutritionist. I hope that gives you the confidence you need to get going.

It your choice, right here, right now! Get started, and I’ll help you.

Weight Loss and be Healthy, with Great Diet Food (Diet Food means Good Food)

By on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | No Comments

By        Sue Bristol, R.N.

When I say eat diet food to lose weight, I do not mean any such thing as a fad diet, or pills, buying prepared meals from any source,  or anything , except good-tasting wholesome food as your lifetime “diet”

What I mean by diet food is:     Stay away from junk “food”, period!

We live in hectic times! And, the times are playing a crucial part in the national epidemic of obesity. We gain weight because we eat fast food because we are too busy to cook because we tried to stop at the gym because we gained weight last week because we were…you get the idea.

But, if you care about your health, and your appearance because of excess weight, stop now and do something about your diet. I’ll help!

Well, what do we do about it? Shall we move to a deserted island where there are no fast food places and no schedules? Not likely. We must use creative measures to minimize the effect our lives are having on our weight. Here are a few ideas:

• Let your family know that you are serious about weight and serious about health. Put them on notice that changes are coming. (I’ll bet at least one of them could lose a few pounds too.)

• Reduce portion sizes. Cut at least one third (one half?) of your portion sizes in half. Include everything that you eat.

• Eat three moderately-sized meals per day and have a small, healthful snack in between. This will minimize mid-morning and mid-afternoon hunger.

• Serve food in your home restaurant style rather than family style. In other words, don’t put bowls and platters on the table. They scream at you to take a second helping. Dish up foods at the stove or counter. A “refill” should at least take a bit of effort.

• Read labels of packaged foods. How many calories per serving? What is a serving size? Saturated fat should be low in proportion to monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. (This is all on the label.)

• Cook meals to freeze on the weekends. You can thaw, cook, and serve them in 45 minutes at the end of a busy work or school day. During the week, plug in the crockpot in the morning and come home to a homemade meal and a house filled with an inviting aroma.

• Cut out mindless eating. This means, if you eat…eat.  If you watch TV…watch TV.  Don’t do both at the same time because you will be loading your body with calories you are not even aware you are eating. This is simply a bad habit and it can be broken. Your kids will moan and groan as though they were being beaten and deprived. They’ll get over it. You’re the parent and you need to take charge of your kids’ health.

• And, as long as you have their attention, tell the kids that all drinks that have been sweetened with sugar are henceforth banned from the house. Don’t underestimate your children’s willingness to cooperate if they understand the relationship between food, weight, and health.

You can take control of your weight; Start Right Now-Right Here. I can promise you that it’ll be much easier when you know a few facts.

Healthy Food, Diet food, and a Healthy Diet. AND It Tastes GOOD Too!

By on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 | 1 Comment

By Sue Bristol, R.N.

I’ll help you form the habits to make the title  of this article 100% true, for YOU!

The terms overweight and obesity mean that an individual is carrying more body weight than is advisable in order to maintain health and avoid disease. Some statistics say that this would pertain to almost two our of every three of us…we are overweight to some extent.

This is a new phenomenon in our country’s history. What’s going on? Why have we become a “fat nation”? There are a variety of factors which contribute to weight gain. There is a solution for most of them.

(If you know all this, then you really should start taking control of your weight right here, right now.)

We are eating too much and exercising too little. This is the reason underlying almost all weight loss. Often we vigorously protest such a charge…”no way do I eat too much”; “I barely eat a thing”; I don’t eat any differently from anybody else”. No matter how strongly we feel about this issue, an imbalance between calories eaten and calories used determines our weight.

If we eat more than we use up we will gain weight. If we use more calories than we consume, we will lose weight. If our weight is stable, we’ve achieved just the right balance. This is science, folks. This is how it happens.

It is possible that you don’t eat any more than people around you yet you are the one who gains weight. That may be the case because of your individual way of processing food. We are all unique. You may have a sluggish metabolism or you may have a body structure that weighs more than someone’s small frame. That’s why it is important to determine whether you are truly overweight or whether you simply would like to weigh less than you do.

What about the chemical imbalance we are so fond of blaming? The fact is, scientific evidence indicates that this is a rare cause of obesity.

Bite a bullet, and admit it: we’re just eating too much.

What about genes? While you may inherit a tendency toward weight gain, you do not inherit fat tissue. Therefore, it comes back to you and your eating habits. And that is not a negative charge against you.

We live in a time during which it is very easy to gain weight. We have overbooked schedules so we eat out a lot. This almost always means higher calories, fat, sodium, and sugar….and extra weight gain.

We’re busy so we don’t exercise. We’re stressed so we plop in front of the TV or computer. We’re frustrated so we munch while we sit. We get thirsty from the salty snacks so we guzzle quarts of sugar-sweetened drinks. And have you noticed that every time we are together with other people for whatever reason, there are snacks? Why?

Few of us will starve if we don’t eat donuts or corn chips every two hours.

Losing weight isn’t as difficult as we’ve all been led to believe. We need to take control of what we’re eating. Never buy into programs that require extreme calorie restriction for weight loss. You’ll end up worse than you started.

Eat fruits, vegetables, lean cuts of meat, whole grains, reduced fat dairy products…all of these in moderate amounts. Develop good eating habits and you’ll manage your weight for a lifetime.

Yes! You can start right here and Learn all about healthy food, diet food, and a healthy diet too.

Weight Loss Diets Must Be Followed To Work – Avoid Fad Food, Diet Pills, And Learn HOW To Diet

By on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 | No Comments

By , R.N.

Weight loss diets really need to be verified by health professionals, like a Nutritionist, and an R.N.
Don’t ever try a fad diet, or “diet pills”. That’s about as simple as I can say it!
There is Only One “Magic Bullet”in weight loss ‘for good’, and that is Motivation. Are you finally motivated?

The numbers are in… the majority of us are overweight, because we are too often eating the wrong foods, certainly not good diet food!

As a Nation; “We Need To Lose Weight“. You are one individual so, do your part and lose weight with a healthy diet.

What exactly does healthy diet food mean? Let’s talk about overweight, obesity and morbid obesity.

Overweight means that we are carrying more pounds than is considered to be a healthy weight. If we weigh too much, we are at risk of developing diseases that will threaten our health and life. Overweight is typically classified at a BMI (body mass index) of 25 or more. This is typically an indication of how much fat tissue we have.

(Other factors need to be taken into account in the interpretation of the BMI. A muscular football player, for example, will likely have a high BMI when he is not overweight. Football, or Rugby players…to the end of the line, please.)

For the rest of us, obesity is diagnosed when the BMI is over 30. In other words, obesity is the next level up from overweight. (To state it differently, no one is obese without first being overweight.) In obesity there is an excessive accumulation of fat throughout the body and surrounding the internal organs as well.

Morbid obesity is the next phase up from obesity. It implies a BMI over 40 and carries with it a large increase in the risk of developing other disease conditions. The National Institutes of Health report that morbid obesity is the point at which the risk to health and life becomes severe.

Who is morbidly obese? The medical community indicates the following parameters are diagnostic for morbid obesity:

• Weight is in excess of 100 pounds over ideal body weight.

• BMI over 40 (or 35 if other conditions are present: high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes).

If these conditions exist, one is morbidly obese and in need of immediate medical supervision of weight management.

If cases of morbid obesity have been unresponsive to sincere and extended attempts at weight loss, more aggressive approaches may be indicated. The use of medication to aid in weight loss is a serious decision and requires careful oversight by the health care provider. In certain cases of morbid obesity, surgical intervention may be recommended. You may wish to seek a second opinion in the management of your weight before you undertake surgery.

The approach you and your health care provider decide upon in order to manage your weight will be specifically tailored to your body makeup, metabolism, and individual circumstances. Regardless of the approach, it is essential that you seek help soon. Your health is being jeopardized.

Sue Bristol, R.N. advises: Make sure you have simple recipes for true weight loss

Here’s the “Secret Weight Loss Diet” that virtually EVERY successful dieter uses. (Whether or not they are even aware of it!)

Click Here to get your Free e-book, which will give you the “Weight Loss Secret” You don’t need to be overweight:

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Weight Loss: Is There A Magic Bullet? YES, It Is Called Motivation – Here’s How To Diet

By on Monday, April 9th, 2012 | No Comments

By Sue Bristol, R.N.

There is no magic bullet when it comes to weight loss. Motivation and commitment are required, and if they’re missing, well, you’re probably not ready confront your weight issue. If you start before you’re ready, it is very unlikely that you will meet with success.

Losing weight requires a change in lifestyle. You have acquired habits that have had a very bad affect on your weight. To lose the extra pounds…and keep them off…you will need to give up those habits. It will be difficult at first because habits really are hard to break. However, if you are properly motivated you will be willing to work hard.

But, if you are ready to confront your weight problem, you can start RIGHT HERE.

Each person is unique, and probably motivated by different things. For one person it is the prospect of looking better; for another it is the promise of good health; another might be willing to work hard for the reward of looking great at the high school reunion. It doesn’t matter where the motivation comes from as long as it is a part of the process.

Sometimes individuals are unable to even think about embarking on a weight loss diet because there are too many things going on at the same time. If you are starting a new job, put off the diet until a later time. If you are consumed with financial worries, now is most likely not the time to start a weight loss program. If you have been ill, you should certainly wait until the acute stage of your illness has passed.

Don’t start on a diet until you have a solid and achievable picture about how much weight you can lose. You can healthfully lose one to three pounds per week. If you lose more than that it is most like water and muscle loss rather than fat. The doctor or nurse can help you assess your weight, determine how much you need to lose, and decide how you are going to go about it.

It is important to have a support team waiting in the wings to encourage you and to hold your accountable. Consider dieting with a friend or spouse. If that’s not practical, perhaps a class or support group will be of help to you in giving you the encouragement you need, especially when the going is slow and you are ready to give up. See This One!

If the time isn’t right, your weight loss plan will most likely not meet with much success. Dieting doesn’t really need to be so hard but unless you’re ready to commit yourself to discipline and accountability you may as well postpone the program until a more suitable time in life.

Sue Bristol, R.N. advises you how to avoid these diseases. Here’s the “Secret Weight Loss Diet” that virtually EVERY successful dieter uses. (Whether or not they are even aware of it!) Get your Free e-book, which will give you the “Weight Loss Secret” You don’t need to be overweight:

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Diet Food; Learn These Simple Tips To Diet Food That Will Help You Lose Weight

By on Sunday, April 8th, 2012 | No Comments

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Learn the right diet foods for your weight loss and continued good health.

If you need to lose weight… even a large amount of weight… take heart! Recent studies have shown that a weight loss of even five to ten percent of your current weight significantly reduces your risk of heart disease and diabetes. Let’s say you weigh 250 pounds and your ideal weight according to health charts is 130 pounds. So, you have been advised to lose 120 pounds. Now that is enough to discourage anybody.

However, suppose you were told to lose between 12 and 25 pounds. Does that sound like something you would be able to do? Let me answer for you… yes! Oftentimes folks get downright discouraged because the amount of weight they’ve been advised to lose is “off the wall”. How can you deal with losing more than one hundred pounds? (I’ll answer that too… you lose 100 pounds one ounce at a time as surely as you travel from New Jersey to California one mile at a time.) First thing is to learn correct diet food.

Once you have lost five to ten percent of your weight you will benefit in two ways:

1. You will lower your risk of obesity-related diseases

2. You will know that you can indeed lose weight and you will be motivated to lose another five to ten percent.

So, how are you going to approach the needed weight loss? There are several steps:

Learn what foods are truly diet food.

• Consult with your doctor first. He will be able to tell you how much weight you need to lose, and how fast you can expect to lose it. Typically a realistic goal is one to three pounds per week. That may seem like a small amount in the beginning. But, think of this; if you go on a crash diet and lose more weight faster, it’s not going to last, and the weight will come back, with a vengeance.

• Keep a positive attitude. If you lose two pounds per week, in one month you will have lost eight pounds. Keep that up and imagine how you will look a few months down the road. Work to a goal for a future event: Christmas, high school reunion, your son’s wedding.

• Ask the doctor (or nurse or dietitian) to provide you with a written diet food plan which will give you guidelines as to how you should eat. For example, increase your intake of fruits and vegetables, reduce your portion sizes, eliminate sugary beverages, switch to whole grain products (breads, cereals, pasta).

• Increase your daily activity… walk, use the stairs, play with the kids, walk the dog. Try to think movement throughout your day… get in motion whenever you can.

Plan today to get started. Weigh yourself and aim to lose 2-3 pound per week for at least 4 weeks, (to re-stabilize your metabolism).

The first step is always the most important. Just getting started is the most difficult; so Start Right Now!

Manage your calorie intake the one, smart way. Lose weight the one, smart way. Eat only diet food; it’s regular food that’s good for you.

By Sue Bristol, R.N.

My e-Book will lead you through the way to learn correct diet food and make weight loss work for you, and your obese child, or spouse. Here’s the “Secret Weight Loss Diet” that virtually EVERY successful dieter uses. (Whether or not they are even aware of it!)

“Click Here” to get your Free e-book, which will give you the “Weight Loss Secret” about diet food.

The right Diet food will make your weight loss plan a “piece of cake” (just kidding).

You can Start Right Here Now!

Diet? Which Diet Is The Right One? Here are 8 Tips to Help You Pick the Correct Weight Loss Diet For You

By on Saturday, April 7th, 2012 | No Comments

by       Sue Bristol, R.N.

Choose a diet program that is safe, effective, and practical. That sounds simple enough, right? Wrong! Deciding on a sound way to diet is extremely difficult because there are literally thousands of so-callled diet offerings from which to choose. How can you know the correct way? The only approach to deciding how to lose weight is to learn certain diet principles and stick ruthlessly to them. For instance:

1. The “diet” should consist of a balanced intake of “normal” foods. A plan that advocates excess use of items such as kumquats or cabbage would be best left to rabbits and orangutans.

2. If you insist upon buying a diet program to help you lose weight, don’t just throw a dart at the page when you choose. Investigate the credentials of the creator of the diet. Exercise gurus may have the leading edge on how to build muscle but they are not necessarily adequately trained in the fundamentals of good nutrition. (The last thing you want from your “diet” is to end up worse than you started!)

3. Choose only a diet that is practical to follow for the rest of your life. If you rely on pre-packaged foods, evaluate whether this type of diet would be a workable plan for the long run. Do you want to eat separately from your family for the rest of your life?

4. Are there proven results from the diet you are considering. Do the promoters of the program have excellent references (other than themselves)?

5. Stay away from fad diets unless you want to expend all of your efforts to lose water and muscle weight in a short period of time. Just know that you will gain the “weight” back as soon as you stop the “diet“.

6. Don’t assume that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If you have a basic underlying disturbance in glucose (sugar) metabolism, you may benefit from a diet that follows the glycemic index. However, this may not be helpful or advisable for you if your problem is “simply” the intake of too many calories and the “burn” of too few of them.

7. Stay away from any diet that is excessively low in calories unless it is prescribed by your physician. Such diets are potentially dangerous…for example, they may cause gall stones or kidney stones and they may be very dangerous for pre-diabetics.

8. Plan to lose between one and three pounds per week. If you diet to achieve more than that you will be disappointed at best and at risk of endangering your health at worst.

Start the correct Diet Today Right here

Weight Loss? Why Do You Really Want To Lose Weight?

By on Friday, April 6th, 2012 | 1 Comment

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It is usually one of two reasons we make a decision to lose weight.
1. Either we have an event coming up in a few months…a wedding, a graduation, or (gasp) a high school reunion, and we’ve just got to get in shape.
 Or, and this is more serious,
2. We’re sick, we go to the doctor, and he tells us that we are going to get sicker yet if we don’t lose some weight.

It’s time to get serious about weight loss but we don’t have a foggy clue about what to do. Everywhere you look, someone has an “opinion”.

It seems so complicated. The doctor has given us pages and pages of exercises and recipes and meal plans. We get all overwhelmed, discouraged, and depressed. Where to start?

Let me suggest that you start bt “believing in yourself”.

Here 6 doable tips to make it as simple as possible for you to get started on your weight loss goal.

First of all, very few cases of obesity are caused by chemical imbalance. If that’s the case with you, your doctor will have told you and begun appropriate treatment.

So, for the rest of us, let’s get started this way:

1. Cut the portion size of everything that approaches your lips in half. If you weren’t eating too much, you wouldn’t weigh too much. Period.

2. Gather all of the sugar-sweetened beverages in your home into one place. Now, throw dirt on them, jump on them, ignite them…do anything you can, but get rid of them. Sugary drinks are considered by some experts to play a consequential role in the development of obesity. You may be drinking hundreds of “empty” calories per day. (They are called “empty” because they have no nutritional value…only calories.)

3. Read the label for words in the ingredient list that imply added sugar: molasses, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, anything that ends in “ose”: glucose, sucrose, lactose. Select something else if you can. If you can’t, forewarned is forearmed…be moderate in your consumption.

4. Switch to reduced-fat cheeses, milk, and yogurt.

5. Apportion your plate this way: one-half for fruits and vegetables, one-fourth for your protein (beef, chicken, beans), and one-fourth for whole grain pasta, bread or rice.

6. Add exercise to your daily routine. You don’t have to pump iron or bench press 300 pounds. Walk! Move! Use the stairs instead of the ‘vator; walk instead of drive when you can; bike instead of drive if you can’t walk; window shop at the mall; walk the staircase in your home several extra times per day; mow the lawn yourself instead of hiring the kid next door; pull weeds; garden; take a class and exercise with others; dance; swim; play with the kids; chase the dog; take the parakeet for a walk…anything that will get you on the move will contribute to weight loss by burning extra calories.

The bottom line of weight loss is doing the best you can on each of these tips.

You need to consume fewer calories than you burn up. Or, you must burn up more calories than you consume.

The tips given above are not part of a “diet”. They are ways to eat in a healthy manner for weight management and maximum health. Take your family along on this journey.

If you follow these 6 tips, you will be in control of your weight soon!

And, if you’re serious about correcting your weight loss problem, I’ll help you.

By Sue Bristol, R.N.

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