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1. Don't Eat.
On a permanent basis, that obviously doesn't make sense unless
you have a secret death wish. On a temporary basis, it is worth
considering. Just like the recovering alcoholic who takes it one
day at a time, not eating for "just today" becomes do-able, once in
a while. If you can convince yourself that you can have anything
you want to eat, tomorrow, not eating becomes a viable alternative
for today. On an even shorter-term basis, delaying a planned meal
for a few hours can be useful if you stick to what you had planned
to eat and don't wolf everything in sight to "make up" for your
temporary deprivation. A decrease in the total caloric intake for the
day, the week, the month, is the over-riding goal.
2. Get Your Body Moving.
We all know that activity is necessary to burn up our own fat.
On a permanent basis, that obviously doesn't make sense unless
you have a secret death wish. On a temporary basis, it is worth
considering. Just like the recovering alcoholic who takes it one
day at a time, not eating for "just today" becomes do-able, once in
a while. If you can convince yourself that you can have anything
you want to eat, tomorrow, not eating becomes a viable alternative
for today. On an even shorter-term basis, delaying a planned meal
for a few hours can be useful if you stick to what you had planned
to eat and don't wolf everything in sight to "make up" for your
temporary deprivation. A decrease in the total caloric intake for the
day, the week, the month, is the over-riding goal.
2. Get Your Body Moving.
We all know that activity is necessary to burn up our own fat.
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A-Z Weight Loss Diets
Diet & Physical Activity
NUTRITION
Healthy Eating Habits
The Superfoods
Best Foods for Anti-Aging
Best Heart Healthy Foods
Best Cancer Fighting Foods
Superfoods to Boost Immunity
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Calculating Body Frame Size
Calculating Body Mass Index BMI)
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Five Really Tough Dieting Tips
By: Virginia Bola
If you are losing, trying to lose, or think you need to lose, weight, you are probably as sick as I am of those "easy" and "quick" diet tips
that NEVER work!
The following tips are neither quick nor easy. They are tough, uncomfortable, and demanding (but they work).
By: Virginia Bola
If you are losing, trying to lose, or think you need to lose, weight, you are probably as sick as I am of those "easy" and "quick" diet tips
that NEVER work!
The following tips are neither quick nor easy. They are tough, uncomfortable, and demanding (but they work).
3. Eliminate "Kicking it up a notch."
While "BAM!!" spicing up our food is pleasurable and fun, it also
increases our intake of calories because our food is so good that
our taste buds are in a constant state of excitement. To lose
weight consistently, we need to become disinterested in food to
the greatest extent possible. Let's face the fact that carrot and
celery sticks are never going to make our mouths water; a cup of
yogurt, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, or tuna is okay but will never
lead to the pure delight of a divine bowl of jambalaya, pasta, a
dripping cheeseburger, or a sizzling pizza. We need to limit the
excitement in our lives to non-eating activities and keep our food
in the boring, tedious range so that we can limit our involvement,
enjoyment, and delight in eating. The less we look forward to our
meals, the less we will eat which is our goal.
4. Practice positive visualization.
While "BAM!!" spicing up our food is pleasurable and fun, it also
increases our intake of calories because our food is so good that
our taste buds are in a constant state of excitement. To lose
weight consistently, we need to become disinterested in food to
the greatest extent possible. Let's face the fact that carrot and
celery sticks are never going to make our mouths water; a cup of
yogurt, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, or tuna is okay but will never
lead to the pure delight of a divine bowl of jambalaya, pasta, a
dripping cheeseburger, or a sizzling pizza. We need to limit the
excitement in our lives to non-eating activities and keep our food
in the boring, tedious range so that we can limit our involvement,
enjoyment, and delight in eating. The less we look forward to our
meals, the less we will eat which is our goal.
4. Practice positive visualization.
Exercise can be tedious, boring, and interferes with getting everything done in our time-starved lives. Those who love exercise,
spending hours at the gym or training for marathons, don't have a weight problem like the rest of us couch potatoes. So how do
we find the time and the motivation to incorporate some physical movement into our lives? If we don't have the time or the
opportunity for exercise sessions (work, commuting, kids, chores), we can sneak activity breaks into stolen moments of time
throughout the day. Reset your alarm 15 minutes earlier and perform calisthenics - jumping jacks, killer exercises, sit ups,
jump rope - while the coffee brews. Sneak 5 to 10 minutes every few hours during the work day to walk around the building,
perform isometrics at your desk, or run up and down the stairs. 5 to 10 minute mini-workouts scattered throughout your usual
schedule can add up to an hour or two of activity bursts per day, significantly boosting the equation of calories in vs. calories out
that leads to increased weight loss.
spending hours at the gym or training for marathons, don't have a weight problem like the rest of us couch potatoes. So how do
we find the time and the motivation to incorporate some physical movement into our lives? If we don't have the time or the
opportunity for exercise sessions (work, commuting, kids, chores), we can sneak activity breaks into stolen moments of time
throughout the day. Reset your alarm 15 minutes earlier and perform calisthenics - jumping jacks, killer exercises, sit ups,
jump rope - while the coffee brews. Sneak 5 to 10 minutes every few hours during the work day to walk around the building,
perform isometrics at your desk, or run up and down the stairs. 5 to 10 minute mini-workouts scattered throughout your usual
schedule can add up to an hour or two of activity bursts per day, significantly boosting the equation of calories in vs. calories out
that leads to increased weight loss.
Use props to help you "see" yourself thin so that your weight loss
goals become a tangible, vital part of your everyday life. Instead of
the latest "Who done it?" mystery novel, read clothes catalogs
before going to bed. The airbrushed perfection of the Victoria's
Secret and Banana Republic models may be difficult for you to
emulate but they do encourage your dreaming of an attractive
physical appearance. A mental vision of yourself as model-thin is
a technique to pull up every time you are faced with food during
the day and bolsters your "won't" power for declining edibles you
know you don't need. This technique doesn't work as well for men
but encourage the male in your life to emulate their favorite sports
figures. Watch movies and television not with an eye to escaping
from yourself and your humdrum world but as a peep into a world
you intend to inhabit. Visualize yourself as the hero or heroine of
your favorite shows: can you even imagine a fat caped crusader,
an overweight vamp, or an obese romantic lead? Maintain a clear
vision of yourself as slender, sexy, and fit and you have something
to help you through the tempting, alluring,
almost-impossible-to-resist times in your daily life. It is that
mental image of your future self that can encourage you to "just
say no" to the immediate delights surrounding you.
goals become a tangible, vital part of your everyday life. Instead of
the latest "Who done it?" mystery novel, read clothes catalogs
before going to bed. The airbrushed perfection of the Victoria's
Secret and Banana Republic models may be difficult for you to
emulate but they do encourage your dreaming of an attractive
physical appearance. A mental vision of yourself as model-thin is
a technique to pull up every time you are faced with food during
the day and bolsters your "won't" power for declining edibles you
know you don't need. This technique doesn't work as well for men
but encourage the male in your life to emulate their favorite sports
figures. Watch movies and television not with an eye to escaping
from yourself and your humdrum world but as a peep into a world
you intend to inhabit. Visualize yourself as the hero or heroine of
your favorite shows: can you even imagine a fat caped crusader,
an overweight vamp, or an obese romantic lead? Maintain a clear
vision of yourself as slender, sexy, and fit and you have something
to help you through the tempting, alluring,
almost-impossible-to-resist times in your daily life. It is that
mental image of your future self that can encourage you to "just
say no" to the immediate delights surrounding you.
5. Eliminate snacking.
The traditional "three squares a day" eating pattern was based on breakfast, lunch, and dinner as the primary meals of the day.
Today, it is not just our meals that have led to our national overweight, it is our between-meal snacking that has fostered the
epidemic of obesity. Have you noticed that there always seems to be food available? Everywhere we turn, there is something to
eat: potato chips, nuts, cake, ice cream, tortillas, chicken wings, Doritos (Saddam's favorite) and a myriad of salty, spicy,
salivation-inducing snacks that have nothing to do with our need to eat to survive and everything to do with our overweight. If we
can eliminate these between meal boosts and concentrate on three (two is better) meals a day, we can start to bring our weight
in line with our goals. Our tendency is to nibble throughout the day - a sprinkling of this, a handful of that, and an
eye-hand-mouth combination that results in our 24/7 intake of something. Its allure is incontrovertible: the salty, spicy, or sweet
aftermath of their ingestion lingers long on the tongue and the memory (and even longer on the hips).
Article Source: http://www.dietarticles.info
Dr. Bola is a psychologist and an admitted diet fanatic, specializing in therapeutic reframing and the effects of attitudes and
motivation on individual goals. She is the author of a psychology-based workbook for permanent weight control. Reach her at:
www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html
The traditional "three squares a day" eating pattern was based on breakfast, lunch, and dinner as the primary meals of the day.
Today, it is not just our meals that have led to our national overweight, it is our between-meal snacking that has fostered the
epidemic of obesity. Have you noticed that there always seems to be food available? Everywhere we turn, there is something to
eat: potato chips, nuts, cake, ice cream, tortillas, chicken wings, Doritos (Saddam's favorite) and a myriad of salty, spicy,
salivation-inducing snacks that have nothing to do with our need to eat to survive and everything to do with our overweight. If we
can eliminate these between meal boosts and concentrate on three (two is better) meals a day, we can start to bring our weight
in line with our goals. Our tendency is to nibble throughout the day - a sprinkling of this, a handful of that, and an
eye-hand-mouth combination that results in our 24/7 intake of something. Its allure is incontrovertible: the salty, spicy, or sweet
aftermath of their ingestion lingers long on the tongue and the memory (and even longer on the hips).
Article Source: http://www.dietarticles.info
Dr. Bola is a psychologist and an admitted diet fanatic, specializing in therapeutic reframing and the effects of attitudes and
motivation on individual goals. She is the author of a psychology-based workbook for permanent weight control. Reach her at:
www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html
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