Beauty and Weight

To look and feel your best, it is wise to stay near your optimal weight. There are many diets available to help with that. The following tricks to sticking with a diet and fitness plan have helped women become half their size:

• Be your own best diet buddy-it helps to have a diet buddy, but the buck stops with you so keep the tempting items out of the house. Avoid going to places that will be tempting.
• Be the strictest the first 30 days. It will allow habits to change and even make changes at the cellular level. Take a day off after 30 days and then start a lifestyle change that gives you a day off dieting and exercise once per week.
• Eat slowly. Give you stomach a chance to let you brain know you are eating. Set eating utensils down in-between bites. Don’t eat in front of a TV; you will finish your food before you even realized you started!
• If you must “wolf down” some food, make it healthy and pick food that has minimal calories.
• Include crunchy food in every meal. Eat food that takes time to chew. This will slow down eating and add to feeling satisfied after a meal.
• Wean yourself from addictive food or beverages that cause weight gain. Make a simple plan to gradually reduce the intake of the item and then stick with it.
• Look at the big picture. Weigh yourself only once a week or less, not every day. Daily weighing can cause discouragement with normal fluctuations. Factor in normal weight gain before menstruating. Maybe even skip weighing in that week. Weigh in at the same time of the day each week.
• Limit eating to before 7 pm each night. If you are going to indulge in a craving, do it at the beginning of the day when there is time to work off the calories with a little extra exercise.