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Best Weight Loss Tips to Help Loss Weight
Choose a familiar restaurant with selections you know you can eat.
Don't be afraid to bring your own fat-free dressings, sour cream, or Butter Buds.
Order pizza with veggies and ask for half the normal amount of cheese.
Ask to have the seafood broiled without butter.
Use common sense at the salad bar or you will consume as much fat as a fried dinner.
Order one serving of dessert and share with your friends.
Start the meal with a broth or vegetable soup to fill you, but avoid cream based soups.
Avoid appetizers, as most are high fat.
Choose pastas with meatless tomato sauces, and hold the cheese.
When served a large portion of food, cut away the excess then douse it with salt and sugar so you won't be tempted to eat it.
Some steak houses brush the steaks with seasoned butter. Always order it plain.
As soon as you have finished eating, put a super-minty candy in your mouth to help resist further temptation.
Got milk? Make sure it is skim milk. Low-fat milk (1%) has 2.5 grams of fat per cup. If you drink the recommended 4 glasses per day, you have consumed a whopping 10 grams of fat, just in your milk! 2% milk is even worse, with 5 grams of fat per cup!!
Forget dull salads, try the fancier varieties of greens, add slivered, grilled chicken, and serve on gorgeous dinnerware.
Steam your veggies with chicken broth for more flavor.
Chill your soups or broths after you cook them, then lift off the hardened fat; reheat to serve.
If you don't like a nonfat version of a product, like cheese, try mixing it half and half with the regular version.
Begin your meal with a glass of V-8 juice. It is very filling and counts as a veggie.
If you are still hungry after the entree, finish the meal with a salad.
Don't butter your toast, you will never miss it.
Saute your vegetables in a little water and your favorite seasonings.
Chill a 1/2 gallon pitcher of water overnight to make it more palatable and to track how much you drink.
Put your salad dressing on the side of the plate, then dip your fork into it to save the calories from excess dressing.
If you must purchase high fat foods for other family members, try to purchase small quantities, and freeze (or let someone hide) the excess amounts
When preparing recipes that call for fats, experiment by cutting the amounts in half or using substitute products. You ususally will not miss the fat.
Forget adding the oil to the pasta water. Just stir well as soon as you add the pasta to the boiling water, and stir again everynow and then. You don't need it.
Love chips, but afraid of the new fat-free, olestra chips? Don't resort to regular chips. The baked chips have only 1.5 grams of fat per serving, and are satisfying.
Read the labels of the lower fat products. Many times we concentrate on the amount of fat per serving, and fail to notice that the recommended serving sizes are often much smaller.
Reduce the amount of cheese within a recipe, and sprinkle a small amount on top for more flavor impact and less fat.
Lightly spray phyllo dough with vegetable oil instead of brushing it with butter.
Eliminate the bottom crust of a fruit pie and just add a few lattice strips or a low-fat top crust for a cobbler.
Have "International Night" and introduce your family to foods from other nationalities. Choose only foods and recipes that are low-fat, and your family won't know the difference. The varieity will entice them to try healthy foods they normally would have passed on.
Realize that lifestyle changes only require a little extra effort at first, but will become habit in a short time.
Measuring your food may seem cumbersome at first, but you will soon be able to "eye" the proper amounts.
Don't fall into the trap of buying snacks "for the kits", they don't need them either.k
Eat 3 meals and 2 small snacks every day to help boost your metabolism and avoid the "starvation" mode which packs on pounds even will few calories. NEVER skip breakfast.
Don't eat more than 2 snacks per day. Research has shown that those that regain the weight usually snack 4 or 5 times a day.
Set small weight loss goals then pamper yourself with a manicure, haircut, etc, whenever you reach them.
Make a list of your top 10 reasons you want to lose weight and post the list on your refridgerator.
Stop eating 2 to 3 hours before bedtime.
If driving past McDonalds everyday is too tempting, go a different route.
Wear "too tight" pants to the supermarket (even under a long tunic or jacket) to politely remind you to stay away from the candy aisle.
Focus on what you can have, instead of what you can't have; cinnamon bagel with nonfat cream cheese instead of a doughnut, for example.
Avoid alcohol as it adds empy calories and stimulates the appetite.
Enjoy your quite time with a good book or magazine about fitness. The more educated you are about your health, the easier it will be to make smart choices.
Never say "I can't have that" but rather say "I don't want that." This puts you in control of your choices.
Listen to books on tape while you exercise.
Instead of having your morning coffee with the newspaper, try watching the news while using your treadmill or stationary bike.
Listen to music while you exercise or do housework; picking up the pace will come naturally.
Put a fan in front of your treadmill and you will be surprised how much longer you can walk.
If you are a beginner, please start slowly or you will be less likely to continue.
Keep a spare pair of walking shoes in the car for walking on your lunch break or when you have extra time between appointments.
Remember that of those who are successful at keeping off the weight, more than 95% are exercisers, and 90% of those that don't exercise do gain the weight back.*(*Source: Cooking Light 11/12 '96 Healthwatch, page 67)
Remember that a good workout is also a stress reducer and you will probably look forward to it.
Do not be tempted to dive in and workout for an hour the first time. Work up slowly and gradually, or you will probably injure yourself, tire out, and give up.
It may be hard to motivate yourself to workout, and to keep it up for a half hour to an hour. However, you really will be glad you did it after it is over.
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