6 Important Tips For Your Weight Loss Plan

     It is usually one of two reasons we make a decision to lose weight. Either we have an event coming up in a few months...a wedding, a graduation, or (gasp) a high school reunion, and we've just got to get in shape. Or, and this is more serious, we're sick, we go to the doctor, and he tells us that we are going to get sicker yet if we don't lose some weight.

It's time to get serious about weight loss but we don't have a foggy clue about what to do. It seems so complicated. The doctor has given us pages and pages of exercises and recipes and meal plans. We get all overwhelmed, discouraged, and depressed. Where to start?

Let me give you 6 tips to make it as simple as possible. First of all, very few cases of obesity are caused by chemical imbalance. If that's the case with you, your doctor will have told you and begun appropriate treatment. So, for the rest of us, let's get started this way:

1.Cut the portion size of everything that approaches your lips in half. If you weren't eating too much, you wouldn't weigh too much. Period.

2. Gather all of the sugar-sweetened beverages in your home into one place. Now, throw dirt on them, jump on them, ignite them...do anything you can, but get rid of them. Sugary drinks are considered by some experts to play a consequential role in the development of obesity. You may be drinking hundreds of "empty" calories per day. (They are called "empty" because they have no nutritional value...only calories.)

3.Read the label for words in the ingredient list that imply added sugar: molasses, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, anything that ends in "ose": glucose, sucrose, lactose. Select something else if you can. If you can't, forewarned is forearmed...be moderate in your consumption.

4.Switch to reduced-fat cheeses, milk, and yogurt.

5. Apportion your plate this way: one-half for fruits and vegetables, one-fourth for your protein (beef, chicken, beans), and one-fourth for whole grain pasta, bread or rice.

6. Add exercise to your daily routine. You don't have to pump iron or bench press 300 pounds. Walk! Move! Use the stairs instead of the 'vator; walk instead of drive when you can; bike instead of drive if you can't walk; window shop at the mall; walk the staircase in your home several extra times per day; mow the lawn yourself instead of hiring the kid next door; pull weeds; garden; take a class and exercise with others; dance; swim; play with the kids; chase the dog; take the parakeet for a walk...anything that will get you on the move will contribute to weight loss by burning extra calories.

The bottom line of weight loss is a balancing act. You need to consume fewer calories than you burn up. Or, you must burn up more calories than you consume.

The tips given above are not part of a "diet". They are ways to eat in a healthy manner for weight management and maximum health. Take your family along on this journey.

If you follow these 6 tips, you will be in control of your weight soon!

And, if you're serious about correcting your weight loss problem, I'll help you.

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