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Getting Thin and Loving Food

Favorite Quote: "Everyone know that we overeat because we’re happy or sad or depressed or bored" (43)

Theory:

Make the commitment to

1. Eat better – make your very next meal healthier than it would have been.  Every bite left behind adds up to weight loss
2. Move more – think about your exercise options and get started today
3. Take time to play – set aside fifteen minutes a day to do any activity you choose

Motivation

1. List three reasons why you need to eat right and get exercise
2. List three activities you’re passionate about that can help you become healthier
3. List any roadblocks that are keeping you from participating in those activities

Accountability

            Earn points for planning meals ahead, packing snacks, making the healthiest food choice you can in a given situation, swapping a nutritionally superior alternative (baked chips instead of fried), and in some cases, for abstaining altogether. 

Tackling emotion-driven, heart unhealthy habits

1. Find, fake or invent the right mindset.  Identify three reasons the habit isn’t working for you.
2. Commit to never quitting. Commit to focusing on your daily performance.  Wake up with the idea that you will do your best
3. Create some form of accountability to keep yourself in line, and create an activity-driven process you can go through to bypass the old behavior. 

Support

• Phase one is support you can find in the privacy of your own home

• Phase two is support from another person

• Phase three is support you freely and unconditionally give to others

Weight Loss Tips:

Three things that you do next time you have the urge to eat

1. have bottled water in the fridge at all times
2. Keep cut-up fruits and veggies in the fridge at eye level, or at the very least, keep food that you can grab and eat
3. Operation distraction – laundry or a five- or ten-minute burst of physical activity

Shape up your menus and weight loss will follow. Commit to three changes a week.

1. eat a serving of brown rice instead of cereal or bread
2. next time you make pasta, cut the quantity of noodles in half and double up on the vegetables
3. Make rainbow meals. Work in as many brightly colored fruits and veggies as you can
   

Book includes 200 Easy recipes for weight loss

Kathleeen Daelemans. 2004. New York : Houghton Mifflin Company

Information provided on this website is not meant to replace the services of your physician, but only to act as an educational tool. The diet summaries are by no means a substitute for reading the actual diet programs, but rather are synopses of basic principles meant to pique your interest and help you select a diet. Be sure to consult your physician and read the entire diet book before beginning any weight loss program.