Weight Loss & Getting Psyched Up To Eat Healthy

Question
I'm getting myself geared up to attempt, yet again, to drop some weight. I'm 5'6" and weigh around 230lbs.  Being overweight is sort of a new experience for me. As a child I was always underweight and as a young adult (I'm 34 now), I was average (hovering around 125 - 130). The problems is that my eating habits are the exact same ones I had in High School and as a young adult. I don't typically eat large quantities, in fact I can sometimes go a whole day without eating anything and then remember at the last moment that I haven't had a bite. Eventhough I'm not a large quantity eater, my food choices are crappy. A lot of processed foods, I eat a lot of cereal and I snack a lot. Things that I usually feed my 5-year-old is what I eat also. I rarely put any veggies in my mouth. I'm doing something about it now because my mother was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year, my father died of a heart attack and obesity runs in my family. If for no other reason, I want to keep my son from following this path and be a better example to him.

Can you please help? I need to find tasty ways of preparing veggies so my son and I will be more enticed to eat them. I'm also not sure how many calories I should be consuming to help jump start my metabolism. I do very light activity, mostly cleaning the house but I plan on beginning an exercise routine with this diet. My plan is to do at least 30 mins of aerobic exercise at least twice a week, unless you advise I should do more?

Thank you for any help/advice you can give! It's appreciated.

Answer
My best advice is to find a program, and stick with it. I have my program on my website, but there are many other programs out there that may work better for you. Weight watchers offers meetings, E-diets gives you a test to figure out which diet should work best for you.

My program does have the benefit of combining baby steps to better eating-not radical lifestyle change- with a baby steps approach to exercise and tools for stress management. I also send the people in the program recipes, tips and tricks as well as personally coach you via email.
You can find some things on your own- try googling "healthy recipes" you will get a lot of good ideas from that. Start slow with exercise and build up- Once again, you can find lots of good things online- try exercisetv.tv- many good workouts are available there.


Hope this helps,
Lela Simon
Http://www.LelaSimonWellness.com

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