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A Teaspoon of Sugar: A Mountain of Cravings

June 30, 2013

Are you craving the taste of sweet food? Do you continue to eat even after you’re full?

If you can’t stop eating food with added sugar, you need to cut down, or eliminate it.

Sugar is difficult to avoid. It’s added to most packaged, restaurant and fast food.

Kick The Sugar Habit

Get rid of the food that makes you crave. Have a mango, instead of ice cream. Replace ketchup with a slice of tomato.

Mangoes are a tropical fruit that provide a healthy source of natural sugar. They are low in calories, contain vitamin A, vitamin C, antioxidants, and flavonoids.

Add More Fiber

Replace sugary food with fruits, and veggies. Eating more produce adds fiber to your diet, improving digestion, and elimination. As long as you drink plenty of water, you won’t need laxatives, when your diet is high in fiber.

Fresh fruit and vegetables make you feel full because of their fiber content. Known as roughage or bulk, fiber isn’t digested or absorbed.

When you eat food with added sugar, you’re ingesting calories from the sugar, plus the calories from the food itself.

Eliminate Packaged Food With Added Sugar

If you buy packaged food, read the label to find out if it contains added sugar. A few examples are canned fruit, tomato sauce, frozen food, and condiments such as ketchup.

Sugar Cravings May Cause Overeating

Some sugars have more calories than others, some have trace minerals, some are lower glycemic. Xylitol has fewer calories per teaspoon than sucrose, but its sweet flavor, may cause overeating.

Avoid Overweight and Obesity

Health benefits in honey, or maple syrup are of little value, if you experience cravings for more of the sweet stuff. Overeating leads to overweight, and obesity.

400 Pound Woman Gets Skinny

May 10, 2013

**Before at 400 and after at 152 pounds.**

Are you stuck in a rut about losing weight? Do you think it’s impossible to shed fat, especially if you weigh hundreds of pounds over your normal limit?

I’ve got news for you, there are plenty of people in your boat.

Many of them reached a breaking point, and made the decision to turn their lives around.

For some the tipping point is fear, for others it’s a medical scare, and others are literally sick and tired of being fat.

Here’s a news story about 49 year-old wheel-chair bound Theresa Borawski, who weighed over 400 pounds before deciding to change her eating habits, and lost 276 pounds in the process.

Her method was cutting back on calories, and eliminating junk food. Theresa got down to 152 pounds, and no longer needs a wheel chair or cane for mobility. Her blood pressure has stabilized, and her medications have been reduced.

If she can do it, so can you. Read the entire story at Huffington Post.

Quick Tip: Fast Track To Cutting Calories

April 24, 2013

SMALL LIFESTYLE CHANGES ADD UP

Don’t get discouraged when you think of cutting back on your food intake. Quick tips will help you begin reducing calories. Start with one, or more changes. Small changes add up. So get going!

Aim for consuming 100 to 200 fewer calories daily.

10 WAYS TO CUT BACK ON CALORIES

Stop snacking after dinner.
Give up your evening dessert.
Drop the latte.
Eat smaller portions.
Don’t eat when you’re not hungry.
Cut down on cookies, or eliminate them.
Skip the banana. 100 calories.
Say no to a milkshake. Around 320 calories.
Everyday cut out two pieces of bread. That’s about 260 calories.
Replace soda with water, or chilled herbal tea. Regular 12 oz. soda 140 calories, 16 oz. 187.

ADD MORE ACTIVITY TO YOUR ROUTINE

Drive less, walk more. You’ll also save money on gasoline.

Park your car at the end of the parking lot, and take a round-trip brisk walk to the mall.

Walk up stairs instead of using an elevator, or escalator.

Quick Tip: Weight Loss Conversation

April 23, 2013

Personal Reasons For Weight Loss

Literally, or figuratively, look in the mirror. Tell yourself one or more good reasons why you want to lose weight.

Write About It

Take one of those good reasons, and write a few sentences about your feelings. If the writing flows, stay with it, and continue to write. If you enjoy this process, start a Weight Loss Diary.

Start Your Own Weight Loss Coffee Club

Do you know other people like yourself who want to lose weight? Form your own Weight Loss Coffee Club. Have the members of your group do the writing exercises. Share your stories during your Weight Loss Coffee Club meetings.

Invite Guests To Your Club

Do you know friends, family or co-workers who have lost weight? Invite them to your Weight Loss Coffee Club meetings to tell their weight loss stories. Success stories will inspire and motivate everyone in your group.

Make It Fun and Informal

Forming your own informal weight loss group can be fun and educational.
Go food shopping together. Read food labels, compare ingredients.
Make a date to go out to eat. Help one another to make healthy food choices.
Take an exercise class with a buddy from your group.
Everyday go out for a brisk walk with a friend.

Weight Loss Motivation

April 7, 2013

Americans Are Over Fed

If you’re a typical American, you don’t have a problem with starvation. You have problem with eating too much, and overdosing on calories.

Before you know it, you don’t want to look in the mirror. Just buy another XXL tee shirt and baggy pants, to cover up the excess fat.

Excess Fat Is A Walking Time Bomb

You know that the excess fat is making you into a walking time bomb for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, low backache, hip, knee and lumbar dysfunction.

There are hundreds of people like you who don’t want to carry around excess fat, but don’t know how to start losing unwanted pounds, or just can’t find the motivation to get started.

Hundreds Of People Have Lost Weight

When you click on this link, it will take you to a website where you can read hundreds of weight loss success stories from real people, like yourself. All the stories are different.

Breaking Points

On this list are typical reasons people begin a weight loss program in earnest. Read through the breaking points, to help yourself find the motivation to drop excess fat.

Tired all the time. No energy to care for children.
At 24, my doctor told me I had liver disease, and that I’d need a liver transplant.
At 30 I was taking blood pressure medication, and dealing with alot of anxiety and stress. I wanted to feel better, and was terrified of developing heart disease and diabetes.
At 54, I weighed 315 pounds, and sleeping 18 hours a day.
My business failed because of the way I looked.
I knew I was a high risk for diabetes. I didn’t want it to happen to me.
I took full responsibility for weighing 500 pounds, and decided it was time to take it off.
After looking at photographs of myself, I decided to make changes in my weight.
I suffered from backaches, had problems walking up stairs, and reaching down to tie my shoe laces.
I got out-of-breath trying to reach down to put on my socks. It was time for a change.
I weighed more than 475 pounds from compulsive eating at all-you-can-eat fast food restaurants, and no exercise. I wanted to live to see my grandson grow up.
At 34 I weighed 433 pounds. I took a pool exercise class with 60 year-old women, and couldn’t keep up. I could barely move. I was considering using a mobility chair.
I was obese when I got married, and was embarrassed by the photographs.
I was inspired by co-workers who lost weight.
Photographs of myself made me cringe.
In the Christmas party photos, I looked like I had 15 chins.
I was made fun of in high school because of my obesity.

Get Motivated

Read about 382 Weight Loss Stories, and get inspired.

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