Tiny steps...BIG RESULTS! (Conclusion)
"They starve themselves at breakfast and lunch," she says. "This is the behavior pattern of someone with an eating disorder. They don't eat for as long as they can or eat almost nothing. They eat a light breakfast and a light lunch, but then they overeat at dinner. That leads to bingeing. When they get home or get to a restaurant, they can't stop eating. You can't exist that way and you don't have to."
Mistake two: seeking instant weight loss. Tallmadge points out that effective dieting takes time. Just as sure as the pounds didn't appear overnight, they aren't going to vanish like magic.
But by following her many common sense solutions, you will lose weight over time and it can be accomplished with very little effort.
"My tips are individualized ways to shed pounds and they are going to fit in with anybody," Tallmadge says. "Everyone can find something in my book that works for them.
"For instance, a person who drinks two glasses of wine with dinner may decide to cut back to just one glass of wine. This person could lose up to 15 pounds a year with just that change.
"Another person might be in the habit of eating three little cookies a night. If he or she cut down to one cookie a night that change alone could results in losing several pounds a year. This works effectively. Most people could live with that little change."
Diet Simple puts 154 proven tips at your fingertips. Tallmadge suggests you pick and use the tricks that work best with your lifestyle.
"Everybody has his or her own idiosyncratic ways," she says. "At eDiets, there are so many support groups to fit the different types of people. Diet Simple is very similar in that everyone has his or her own quirks.
"For some people it's that evening snack. For other people, maybe the first thing they do when they come home from work is go straight to the refrigerator to get some cheese and crackers."
Here is a sampling of 10 proven tips:
1. Read the fine print! When you're dining out, you can lose 10 pounds per year by choosing a "light" entree, such as grilled chicken and salad. Those healthy choices can have at least 250 calories less than traditional meat dishes.
2. The sundae solution! Pour a tablespoon of chocolate over fresh fruit and your total calorie intake for this snack is 110 to 160 calories compared to the 250 calories found in a candy bar or the 500 calories found in an ice cream cone.
3. Set your alarm! Even a modest amount of exercise -- walking 15 minutes, 5 times a week - -- burns calories.
4. Pedal while you prattle! Next time you're chatting on the phone, get on your bike. Pedaling on a stationary bike at 10 miles an hour for 25 minutes burns 100 calories. A faster pace of 17 miles per hour for 15 minutes also burns 100 calories. Get spinning.
5. Beware the burger blast! A half-pound of grilled hamburger meat has about 800 calories. The same amount of lean roast beef has half this amount.
6. Cooking with spray! Each tablespoon of butter or margarine has 100 calories. Substitute a vegetable oil spray for one tablespoon.
7. Join the snack committee! Healthful snacks make an incredible difference. Swapping a serving of fruit for the usual supercookie each week will save you at last 500 calories. And you'll probably save 1,000 calories since few of us stop at one cookie!
8. The Happy Hour trap! Suppose you avoid three happy hours a month. You could possibly lose up to 31 pounds in a year (if you are usually somewhat of a party animal).
9. The secret is plastics! When you use plastic containers to store meals -- especially batch meals you prepare ahead of time -- you'll forgo all those calories that come from lunches at greasy spoon dinners.
10. Slash corporate calories! Office-prepared dinners, a frozen dinner or frozen leftovers, will easily have 400 fewer calories than restaurant meals. If you work late an average of three times a week, this change alone will help you lose about 18 pounds a year.
(Courtesy: Glee Magazine, a eDiets publication)
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Hope your Easter was Great!
Jacques
Mistake two: seeking instant weight loss. Tallmadge points out that effective dieting takes time. Just as sure as the pounds didn't appear overnight, they aren't going to vanish like magic.
But by following her many common sense solutions, you will lose weight over time and it can be accomplished with very little effort.
"My tips are individualized ways to shed pounds and they are going to fit in with anybody," Tallmadge says. "Everyone can find something in my book that works for them.
"For instance, a person who drinks two glasses of wine with dinner may decide to cut back to just one glass of wine. This person could lose up to 15 pounds a year with just that change.
"Another person might be in the habit of eating three little cookies a night. If he or she cut down to one cookie a night that change alone could results in losing several pounds a year. This works effectively. Most people could live with that little change."
Diet Simple puts 154 proven tips at your fingertips. Tallmadge suggests you pick and use the tricks that work best with your lifestyle.
"Everybody has his or her own idiosyncratic ways," she says. "At eDiets, there are so many support groups to fit the different types of people. Diet Simple is very similar in that everyone has his or her own quirks.
"For some people it's that evening snack. For other people, maybe the first thing they do when they come home from work is go straight to the refrigerator to get some cheese and crackers."
Here is a sampling of 10 proven tips:
1. Read the fine print! When you're dining out, you can lose 10 pounds per year by choosing a "light" entree, such as grilled chicken and salad. Those healthy choices can have at least 250 calories less than traditional meat dishes.
2. The sundae solution! Pour a tablespoon of chocolate over fresh fruit and your total calorie intake for this snack is 110 to 160 calories compared to the 250 calories found in a candy bar or the 500 calories found in an ice cream cone.
3. Set your alarm! Even a modest amount of exercise -- walking 15 minutes, 5 times a week - -- burns calories.
4. Pedal while you prattle! Next time you're chatting on the phone, get on your bike. Pedaling on a stationary bike at 10 miles an hour for 25 minutes burns 100 calories. A faster pace of 17 miles per hour for 15 minutes also burns 100 calories. Get spinning.
5. Beware the burger blast! A half-pound of grilled hamburger meat has about 800 calories. The same amount of lean roast beef has half this amount.
6. Cooking with spray! Each tablespoon of butter or margarine has 100 calories. Substitute a vegetable oil spray for one tablespoon.
7. Join the snack committee! Healthful snacks make an incredible difference. Swapping a serving of fruit for the usual supercookie each week will save you at last 500 calories. And you'll probably save 1,000 calories since few of us stop at one cookie!
8. The Happy Hour trap! Suppose you avoid three happy hours a month. You could possibly lose up to 31 pounds in a year (if you are usually somewhat of a party animal).
9. The secret is plastics! When you use plastic containers to store meals -- especially batch meals you prepare ahead of time -- you'll forgo all those calories that come from lunches at greasy spoon dinners.
10. Slash corporate calories! Office-prepared dinners, a frozen dinner or frozen leftovers, will easily have 400 fewer calories than restaurant meals. If you work late an average of three times a week, this change alone will help you lose about 18 pounds a year.
(Courtesy: Glee Magazine, a eDiets publication)
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Hope your Easter was Great!
Jacques
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