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The ‘Secrets’ that Health Professionals don’t want you to know to lose weight and keep it off

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100 Weight Loss Tips

1. Don't overeat. Stop when you are satisfied and not full or stuffed. Have the mentality that you only need to eat a small amount to tie you over; as if you were only eating a snack and not a full meal.
2. Drink an 8 ounce glass of water before each meal. You will feel fuller faster to 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 lots of 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 throughout 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 originally 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.
51. Put an article of clothing in view. Take an old or smaller size piece of clothing and put it where you will see it daily as a reminder of the size you want to be.
52. Tape a skinny body picture to your fridge. This can help remind you of the size you want to be to help keep you on track.
53. Take high quality supplements. Don't just buy any type of supplements over the counter. Our food supply does not have the nutritional content that our bodies need to be able to properly function and maintain an optimal healthy body that it once did.
54. Learn how to cook healthy. Take a cooking class and learn how to cook healthier.
55. Take a nutritional class. Learn which foods are healthier, are low glycemic, what vitamins each have....etc.
56. Go to bed early. If you are getting hungry late at night, go to bed early to avoid the temptation.
57. Do not eat before bedtime. Eating late at night before bedtime can start to pack on the pounds over time.
58. Plan a vacation. Buy a vacation package where you can expect to wear a bikini. This can be your present to yourself for meeting your goal weight. If you hit your goal in the winter time, stay at a hotel with an indoor pool.
59. Take notes on how you feel after eating. Do this to see if a particular food makes you tired, hungrier....etc.
60. Learn to listen to your body. Your body will tell you when it is hungry, when it is tired...etc.
61. Don't take weight loss pills. Many are dangerous and can cause health problems.
62. Rid yourself of unhealthy cravings. By changing over to eating healthy food, you will be able to eliminate your unhealthy cravings.
63. Eat bold, more flavorable foods. Losing weight doesn't have to mean eating bland foods.
64. Don't eat at buffets!! Your eyes will be bigger than your stomach and then you will hate yourself afterwards.
65. Don't make excuses. Don't play mind games with yourself that you can cheat today while at a friend's party and then start your diet back the next day.
66. Improve your health. This is wonderful incentive to get you to want to get those extra pounds off. If you can lose the additional weight, then you can change your overall health. A lot of symptoms, illness and diseases are related to being overweight.
67. It is cheaper to be healthy. Ask anyone that has had a heart attack or stroke due to being overweight.
68. Eliminate white from your diet. Don't eat flour, white rice, white potatoes...etc.
69. Your kids will be healthier. Letting your kids see how you eat, only teaches them to eat healthy too. This could even be a good way to get picky eaters to try new things.
70. Don't supersize meals. This will only help to supersize your waist.
71. Make your plate colorful. Chose a lot of colorful vegetables at each meal.
72. Eat more vegetables. Start with eating your vegetables first at each meal.
73. Don't drink your calories. Get your calories from your food, not your drinks.
74. Pack your lunch to work. Stay away from eating out as much as possible. Bring left over's from home for your lunch.
75. Don't eat out. Learn to cook healthy and eat at home, instead of going out to eat as much as possible.
76. Juice your vegetables. Juice vegetables instead of drinking a V-8.
77. Make the switch to sweet potatoes. White potatoes will turn to starch and raise your blood sugar levels, sweet potatoes won't do this.
78. Drink water first. Anytime you get hungry, drink a glass of water first. It may be that you are thirsty instead of hungry. Too, it could hold you over till the next meal instead of having to have a snack.
79. Don't snack between meals. If you have to have something, eat something small and try raw vegetables.
80. Get rid of all junk food. Clean out the pantry and cabinets. If you see it, you will want it.
81. Don't eat candy or gum. Your body will burn sugar before it will burn fat, so don't be tempted; don't have it handy or laying around.
82. Get rid of all sweets. Again, clean out the pantry and cabinets.
83. No sugar will diminish cravings. If you can go for 2 weeks without sweets//sugar, you will get rid of your 'sweet tooth" cravings.
84. Eat balanced meals. Make sure you are eating enough vegetables, fruits, protein and good carbs daily.
85. Eat organic. Organic produce doesn't have any pesticides or herbicides but they are still picked green; which is where some of the nutrients and nutritional value is lost.
86. Don't eat ready-to-eat meals.
87. Don't eat pre-packaged meals.
88. Eat meat with no hormones, steroids, antibiotics...etc. Don't add these toxins to your body.
89. Make your family and friends aware. You need all the support you can get, so make sure your biggest supporters know of your weight loss plans.
90. Change your hangouts. Alcoholics should not hang out at bars, no more than someone who needs to lose weight should hang out where there is a lot of food around.
91. Avoid trans fat. It is found in many foods, so read the labels. This is the unhealthy fat that causes health problems.
92. Avoid high fructose corn syrup. This is asking for a health disaster.
93. Men lose faster than women. In case your weight loss partner is the opposite sex.
94. Muscle weights more than fat. If you start exercising just know that the scales might not go down as fast if you are building muscle.
95. Adjust you calorie intake. As you start to lose weight and get smaller, you won't need as many calories to maintain weight loss, so adjust your daily calorie intake as needed.
96. Watch the pasta. Consider wheat pasta.
97. Don't be a 100 calorie sucker. There are several types of snack foods that are now available in 100 calorie individual snack size packs; do not fall for this; these snacks for are not good for you.
98. Avoid surgery like the plague. Obese people may opt for the surgery for a fast solution, but it is not a solution when your eating habits haven't changed and you later begin to gain weight all over again. Don't look for the easy way out.
99. Don't fall the FAD diets. One diet does not fit all and most will not target changing your unhealthy cravings.
100. No salt. Don't add salt to your food. Learn what each food should taste like naturally. Salt retains water//fluid on your body. Salt is also known to cause high blood pressure.

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By: Angela Estep

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