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Weight Naturally
Theory:
If you want to lose weight can
keep it off, it is absolutely essential for you to become aware of when,
where, and why you are eating without hunger.If you are hungry just about every time you pass the refrigerator,
it is just a habit, not physical hunger.
Strategies:
Localize
your eating
If
you have decided you really want to eat something, and if you have
waited 7 minutes after your initial eating impulse, you may eat it
only if you do so seated at your dining room table
When
you eat . . . eat!
Sit
down and eat while doing nothing other than eating
When
do you lose control?
If
it is at night, then go to bed earlier.There is no reason for you to stay awake
Out
of sight, maybe out of mind
Have
you ever found yourself eating something simply because it was
there?
Put
all the junk food away in a single, hard-to-reach cabinet
Signs
of the times – signs placed throughout your home, in places where
there are critical “turns:
Refrigerator
– 7 minutes. Thank You
Are
you honestly hungry? Find out
Eat
it at the Table, Please.
Want
to lose some weight, right now?
Help
your family help you
Simply
ask other members of your family not to offer you food
Other Weight Loss Tips
Water
– A major reason for irrational eating behavior is the failure to
recognize that many irrational eating behavior is the failure to
recognize that many impulses to eat something are misinterpretations
of thirst – just a desire for water.
The
trick to success here is not to see how much water you can drink,
but simply to drink a few glasses of water
Throw
away leftover food that you are not hungry to eat.Break the plate-cleaning habit.
Eat
only as much as you want
Learn
to structure your meal
Always
know what you’re going to have for dinner well before you begin
preparing a meal
for
most people, planning meals about a week in advance works best
Try
to buy only as much food as will fit into your planned menus.
Don’t
put more on the table than you want to eat at that meal
All
you’re trying to do is structure your dinner in such a way as to
encourage a pattern of eating based on real hunger, instead of
habit, impulse, and the plate-cleaning syndrome
Take
away leftovers and unfinished dinners as soon as possible for storage
or disposal
Sidetrack
your eating momentum
Slow
down when eating
300 Weight Loss Plan for Painless
Calorie Cutting
300 calories a day is a good,
average figure of calorie reduction to aim for. The best is to combine
this cutback of 300 calories worth of food with an increase of about 200
calories worth of exercise.
Foods selected for daily
deductions should also fall in one of the following categories
junk
foods that contribute nothing to your well-being
foods
that are typically consumed as snacks
foods
that can be divided in such as way that you can eat less of them
without feeling deprived
Foods
that are consumed as second helpings
Foods
that don’t give you a great sense of satisfaction
This weight loss program emphasizes natural foods in your daily diet.
Natural foods are much less fattening than processed or convenience foods.
You can better satisfy your appetite by eating large amounts of them.
To determine whether a food is natural, all you have to do is ask yourself
how close it is to the state in which it came from nature. The greater the
number of additions, of subtractions and of modifications, the less
natural it is.And about nine
times out of ten, these changes involve:
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.
