SOME EATING RULES TO LOSE WEIGHT
Never skip meals
Eating breakfast is essential to your success at weight loss. Skipping any meal only leads to a diminished metabolism. Please, never, ever skip meals.
Eating breakfast may be the key to not just losing weight but keeping it off. Researchers from the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver looked at eating habits and weight loss in more than three thousand people. Of a group that lost over seventy pounds and kept it off (yes, that’s seventy pounds, not seventeen) the study indicated that 78 percent reported eating breakfast each day while only 4 percent of the successful losers did not. The researchers believe that those who eat breakfast are better able to control their hunger and overall caloric intake throughout each day.
Drink plenty of water
I am going to make this as simple as possible: Before each meal or snack, you should drink eight ounces of water. It’s so simple. Start each day with a big glass before breakfast, have another before each of your snacks and subsequent meals, and right there you have consumed between forty ounces (three meals and two snacks) and forty-eight ounces (three meals and three snacks) of water. It isn’t difficult to add more water and stay properly hydrated.
The majority of people I work with who lose weight and keep it off continue to drink lots of water well after they reach their goals. They become water drinkers for life!
Doctor it up if you have to. Add lemon or lime. Drink bubbly water, such as Perrier or Le Croix, or flavored sodium-free seltzer, which I love. No, carbonation does not give you arthritis, as some people have incorrectly stated. And don’t forget, tap water is just fine and free.
Here is another idea: Drink iced tea at lunch, then when you are halfway through, dump lots of additional ice into the glass. Do the same when you are drinking diet soda. Add lots of ice and watch your water consumption rise. Once again, just be careful: if these beverages contain caffeine, then they are also diuretics.
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