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Tips For Successful Weight Loss

- by Annette Croft

Throughout my childhood and teenage years I watched as my mother tried every fad diet under the sun. I recall one time she ate boiled cabbage and nothing else for a whole week. I felt my mothers’ frustration and misery, however I could not understand why it was so difficult for her to lose weight and keep it off – until that is I became a weight management coach.

For the past two years I have been assisting people to achieve their ideal weight and in this time I have experienced what contributes to a successful weight loss story.

Getting serious - It all starts with you and how serious you are about losing weight. The key to successful weight loss is partly dependent on your level of commitment. How would you rate your seriousness on a scale of 1 – 10 (10 being deadly serious)?

No quick fix - If you have made the commitment to get serious about losing weight then you need to make the commitment to do it safely and effectively. One piece of invaluable advice my own family doctor passed onto me is that slow and steady is always the best option. The longer it takes you to lose weight the less likely you are to put it back on.

Staying motivated - Always keep the end in mind! Write down all of the reasons why you are motivated to lose weight now. Record these reasons on a piece of card that can be kept in your wallet or purse. Each morning and before going to bed remind yourself by reading aloud why you are motivated to lose weight.

Facing challenges - Every day you are likely to face challenges, which can disrupt your focus and get in the way of your weight loss goals. Write down all of the challenges that you know have made losing weight hard for you in the past. This will help you to develop a better strategy this time. Three common challenges are lack of results, boredom and lack of support from spouse, family and friends.

Choosing a weight control program - I recommend choosing a diet / weight control program that offers all of the following for best results:

  • Provides a balanced nutritious program that is safe and effective
  • Support system and regular progress follow-up
  • Teaches you better eating habits
  • Teaches you how to maintain your weight once you have reached your goal weight

For two years Annette Croft has been assisting people reach their ideal weight with the aid of a nutritious, simple and convenient weight management program. For a free weight profile and consultation please visit www.getslim-n-trim.com. For more articles please send an email to amcroft@optusnet.com.au


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The Portion Teller : Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss

The Portion Teller : Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right? Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is probably equivalent to eating five slices of bread, maybe more. That’s most of your grain servings for the day.

And, that steak you ate last night? For all the calories and protein you consumed, you might as well have eaten 18 eggs. More than double the amount of protein you need in a day.

Surprised at just how much you are eating? Dr. Lisa Young isn’t. She has been studying how Americans eat for more than a decade, and what she found is astonishing. Portion sizes have subtly and steadily increased over the past thirty years and are now two to five times larger than they were in the past. Even the average dinner plate has grown several inches to accommodate more food. The portions we’re served are getting bigger and we keep eating. The end result? That’s right. Americans are getting fatter.

So what should you do about it? You may think that counting calories, fat grams, or even eliminating entire food groups such as grains is the way to keep this trend toward colossal cuisine from making you fat. The problem is, you don’t know how many calories, fat, and carbs are in your favorite foods. No one does, not even the experts. When nutritionists were shown several restaurant meals in a survey, not one person was able to accurately guess the calorie or fat content of the meals.

In The Portion Teller, you’ll develop portion-size awareness and learn how to lose weight without weighing food or counting calories. Using simple visuals such as a deck of cards, a yo-yo, a baseball, and even your own hand, you’ll find out what a serving size is supposed to look like and how many servings you can eat per day from each food group. The visuals are easy to use: If your piece of salmon at dinner is about the size of three decks of cards, you’ve eaten all your meat and fish servings for the day.

The plan is easy. You’ll keep a food diary for a short time to get you started. Once you learn how to size-up your favorite foods with the visuals, Lisa’s Portion Personalities show you how stumbling blocks can be easily overcome. Are you a See Food Eater who can’t stop yourself at the sight of food or a Special Occasion Victim who can’t resist that cake at an office party or a Volume Eater who always wants her plate to be full? As a long-time nutrition counselor, Young gives real-world solutions for tackling your bad habits. There’s a cheater’s guide, for those who must satisfy that late-night chocolate craving, as well as a survival guide for eating out and daily meal plans.

No forbidden foods, no calorie counting, no food weighing. The Portion Teller isn’t a diet—it’s a sensible eating plan and the end of diet deprivation. Welcome to diet liberation.
Customer Review: Excellent job Explaining Portion Sizes
The book does an excellent job of explaining portion sizes and what is a normal size meal. Will help anyone trying to drop a few pounds, or maintain her or his body weight they are at now. Good rules to follow for feeding childern-teach them at an early age what is normal proportions and they will have less problems later in life and prevent them from " super sizing" everything in site. Highly recommended.
Customer Review: Best Ever
This book is all anyone needs to eat right, eat healthily and get to (or maintain) a normal weight. I had the dreaded last 8 lbs of weight to loose to get back to my ideal target weight. And the first 5 of those just melted off when I applied the portion principles in this book. Everyone I have recommended this book to has had the same success. This book makes all other books about eating obsolete. It's the best!!!



Underground Body Opus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition

Underground Body Opus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition A Diet Book for People Who Aren't Fat? Popular diet and exercise programs (we don't need to name names) are designed to get you back to normal, to ordinary. But what if you want to become extraordinary? What do you do then?

In this innovative book, Dan Duchaine, the internationally-known bodybuilding "guru" will teach you all of the secrets from his 12-year career as a professional body confidante. You'll learn what the world's top bodybuilders to to get lean and ripped - from thermogenic aids, thyroid hormone, and anti-catabolics to protein selection and macronutrient ratios.

As a special bonus, BODYOPUS, includes the top 50 drugs for dieting, and a special section on diuretics for bodybuilding competitions. BodyOpus Weight Loss and Recomposition will show you how to realize your dreams. This will be your diet bible for the rest of your life!
Customer Review: Good read
A good book, but BodyOpus is really only a small section in the back. The sections on drugs and diuretics seem more like a bonus than essential, although I'm not a pro body builder. Lots of detail on biochemistry, written in a bit of an arrogant tone geared towards the alpha male for sure.
Customer Review: The next level.
I love this book! It was like, the curtain to all the secrets was lifted, and now I know too. I was very familiar with ketogenic diets before reading this and I'm not interested in using steriods, although I appreciated the education. Plus I picked up a whole swag of new tools to go from "normal to extraordinary". This is compulsory reading for anyone serious about bodybuilding, fitness and achieving an amazing body. Period.



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