Tips For Weight Loss

1) Set Realistic Goals

2) Your goal weight should be a weight that fits your lifestyle.

(Ex.) To weigh 135 you may have to eat 1700 calories a day and workout five times a week.

To weigh 141 you may have to eat 2000 calories a day and workout 3 times a week. Which fits your lifestyle?

3) There is no such thing as “Perfect Maintenance”.

Being perfect in weight loss doesn’t teach you anything. It’s what you do after you over eat that keeps your weight off.

4) Practice moderation.

Avoid going from one extreme to another. Imagine it’s your birthday and you go out and have champagne and cake

and you over eat. The next day do not reduce your calories; you should eat “normal.”

Remember it takes 3500 calories to make a pound. It would take a great deal of over eating to gain one pound in a day.

The goal is long-term success, not how fast you can take off one pound.

5) Drink lots of water

Water will fill you up, and help minimize any feelings of hunger.

6) Eat until your no longer hungry, not full.

Full is not ok. Usually when were full we have over eaten. Stop before you feel that way. Remember you can always get more food.

7) Have dessert

Having dessert is normal. Dessert can be an apple or a slice of pie.

Remember it is a treat, so have what you want, but only one serving.

8) Calories

Minimal calories are 1200 for a woman and 1500 for a man.

9) Clothes never lie

Scales will vary. Sometimes the scale doesn’t move, but if your clothes are fitting looser your probably on the right track.

10) If you are feeling lethargic or rundown, you may need more food. Make sure you are taking a

multivitamin to ensure adequate nutrition.

11) Do not rely on vitamins for nutrition. Use them only as a supplement.

Vitamins help release the energy from food. Vitamins do nut supply fiber for the digestive system.

The body absorbs nutrition better from an organic source such as food rather then from a non-organic

source such as vitamins.