Jump Start Your Weight Loss

This web post is by Kyle Pott who lost 50 pounds in 2006. These tips I mostly believe in. As a former counselor, the only one I'd change on a case-to-case basis is telling everyone or anyone. Some very overweight people have lost his/her credibility with all possible support members. Instead I'd suggest to these dieters to wait to tell others until after weight loss happens. Weight loss should begin within 7-10 if the dieter is applying any of these diet tips from any of the resources available on this Squidoo lens.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle
/10-unconventional-diet-tips-how-to-lose-50-pounds-in-three-months.html

1. Buy a digital scale.
2. Weight yourself everyday.
3. Drink 8 glasses of water everyday.
4. Make your diet public.
5. Don't diet on the weekends.
6. Don't sacrifice your life for your diet
7. Make the small changes.
8. Gain perspective by understanding the fractions.
9. Rationalize your workouts.
10.Have a red flag weight.

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5) highenergygoals.com-I quit drinking alcohol in 1976, smoking in 1988, but I had gained weight. For over 10 years, I tried eating different ways with no weight loss. Then in 2006, I developed my basic weight loss plan. I lost 20 pounds which I have kept over for over a year. I am now beginning my Phase 2-20 more pounds. The High Energy plan includes food suggestions, exercise suggestions, and emotional and mental techniques needed for stress reduction. The plan is created by you to include the food, exercise, and techniques that you most enjoy. I know that a total life plan has to be enjoyable to be used.

These suggestions are from Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Rozen from their book, You: On a Diet. These excerpts are from their Esquire article in the May 2007 issue. I knew it was great guidance after I had read the first few pages because they wrote:
"We didn't want the word diet on the cover. (Our Book) is about changing the way you eat and focusing on neglected parts of your body, the ones no one has told you to think about until now."

The only part I'm going to include on this lens is a recap of the diagrams used to teach you how to eat.
For breakfast (they also recommend as Changemaker does that you not eat until you are hungry)--fiber or protein( 60-70%) with coffee, nuts, water, fruit juice and something spicy. The heat in something spicy triggers the release of CCK-the chemical that closes your stomach's gates.

Lunch--50% should be vegetables (maybe salad--but use only low-calorie ones--Paul Newman has a good low fat sesame ginger. Also include protein, water and grains.

Dinner--Vegetables 60% and add protein, fiber and water. Skip alcohol until after dinner as it reduces your ability to register satiety.