1)Don't overeat. Stop when you are satisfied and not full or stuffed. Have thementality that you only need to eat a small amount to tie you over; as if you wereonly eating a snack and not a full meal.
2) Drink an 8 ounce glass of water before each meal. You will feel fuller fasterto ensure that you don't over eat.
3) Take a drink between each bite. This will make you fuller faster, so you won't overeat.
4) Drink a gallon of water each day. This helps to keep you feeling full, so you will eat less throughout the day, will help to flush toxins from your body and will keep your body hydrated as well.
5) Fix your plate at each meal on a child size plate. Don't overflow the plate or pile the food up. This is to get you to eat smaller amounts, so you don't overeat.
6) Eat foods in their raw, natural state, as much as possible. Raw vegetables are hard to digest and the process is longer, so you will feel fuller longer after eating them.
7) Don't eat fried foods. The grease is not good for your arteries.
8) Grill or bake your meat. It is important to allow the grease to drip off the meat while it is cooking and not setting in the grease, so elevate the meat away from the grease.
9) Only eat lean meat. Do not eat meat that has fat marbled into it.
10) Don't eat pork. It is high is sodium//salt and tends to retain fluid on your body, not to mention it is in the Bible that we should not eat pork.
11) Don't eat processed meat. Examples are hot dogs or bologna. They have lotsof sodium and fat, plus who knows what else.
12) Eat smaller meals. Eating smaller meals more frequently is know to raise your metabolism. Try eating 5-6 smaller meals throughtout the day instead of 3 large meals.
13) Don't drink sodas. They are high is sugar and your body will burn sugar before it burns fat.
14) Don't drink diet sodas. Prolonged use of aspartame, the artificial sweetener substitute, is known to cause neurological problems. Aspartame was orginally invented as an ant killer!! More money can be made selling it as a sweetener.
15) Eat fresh vegetables. Raw is best, but if you need to cook them, only steam them slightly so you don't cook away the nutrients in the heating process.
16) Eat the vegetable peels. A lot of nutrients are found in the peel.
17) Eat frozen vegetables. Canned vegetables are high is sodium/salt. Eat frozen if raw is not available or if you need a change.
18) Eat fresh fruit. Canned fruit is high is sugar.
19) Eat frozen fruit. If you need a change or fresh is not available, buy frozen fruits that doesn't contain anything other than just the fruit; no sugar.
20) Stay away from sugars; especially artificial ones. Try to stick more with a natural sweetener.
21) Use Stevia as a natural sweetener. It won't raise blood sugar levels.
22) Eat low glycemic. Carrots, potatoes, watermelon....are high glycemic, so they will raise your blood sugar levels. Learn more on low glycemic eating.
23) Make healthy choices. If you have to travel or eat out, make healthy choices, even if that means getting a grilled chicken sandwich and eating it without the bun.
24) Exercise regularly. Start slow if you need to and gradually build up.
25) Reward yourself with new clothes, not food. You will be proud of yourself, your results and your will power if you stick with it. You may even need new shoes, yes, feet get smaller too:)
26) Have a weight loss buddy. This is a great way to get support and to be able to compare what is working. A buddy is even a great way to get in your exercise together. Shopping for new clothes with a friend is fun too.
27) Wear pants that fit. If you wear lose pants, you will want to cheat as a reward since you have extra room in your pants. Don't wear extremely tight pants, just some that you don't have a lot of extra room in.
28) Don't eat bread, biscuits, rolls...etc. Or eat anything made with flour.
29) Do a gentle cleanse regularly to remove toxins. Toxins in our body get surrounded by fat to protect them from getting to our organs. The more toxins your have the more fat your body will make. Skinny people don't have this protection and the toxins take a direct hit to their organs, so skinny people need to cleanse more importantly than overweight people.
30) Chose a cleanse that will replace nutrients in your body. This is to avoid the sickly side effects from harsh cleanses. Our bodies are not meant to be exposed to harsh chemicals found in most cleanses.
31) Eat more fiber. This will help keep you feeling full and will get your bowels moving regularly; haven't you ever heard the saying, "death begins in the colon"??
32) Keep a food diary. Watch what you eat and the amounts each day.
33) Use stairs instead of elevators. Use this tip when you are out for additional exercise.
34) Park furthest away from store entrances. This too will help you get additional exercise for the day.
35) Dance around the house. Do this while you are cleaning or working in the house to help burn extra calories.
36) Get a dog. A dog needs daily exercise, so this can be your daily exercise buddy.
37) Do not skip meals. A lot of people skip breakfast when it is an important meal in the day.
38) Don't starve yourself. This will only put your body in starvation mode and won't allow your body to burn fat, since the body will hold on to the fat during this time.
39) Eat slower. You will lose interest in eating as much if you eat slower. Also you will notice that you are full instead of overeating.
40) Don't eat while watching TV or reading. It is known that you will overeat doing this.
41) Don't get stressed. Some people are emotional eaters and will stuff themselves while under stress.
42) Use lots of seasonings. Instead of dips, sauces, salt....etc to enhance the flavor of your food.
43) Use olive oil instead of margarine or butter. Olive oil is a healthy type of fat.
44) Read condiment labels. Some condiments are high in calories. A tablespoon of salad dressing might have higher calories that an entire plate of salad.
45) Don't eat or drink milk products. They are high in fat. They are also known to have the steroids, hormones, antibiotics....etc. that cows are known to get and they are passed into our food supply.
46) Don't weight yourself daily. Weight once a week to track your progress.
47) Be in the right mindset to succeed. You have to have willpower to be able to make your goal.
48) Use a measuring tape. You may lose more inches some weeks than pounds, so measure yourself weekly.
49) Work on building healthy eating habits. Once you have made your goal weight, you will want to keep the weight off.
50) Take before pictures. If you can see your overweight self, then it might help to keep you on track to you goal.
Stay tune to part 2 of 2 that will include weight loss tips 51-100.
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