Four Easy Ways To Lose Weight Immediately
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
I recently refined some eating and drinking habits and dramatically proved it’s what we do daily that counts when losing weight and keeping it off. As a weight loss and fitness professional, I’m always looking to improve. So I took a fearless, honest look at my eating/drinking habits. I found the following four things and changed them. Check what happened as a result.
1. I overeat nuts and seeds. They’re fattening, and I’ve never found a fattening food I didn’t love. So I cut my intake down to one handful or less a day. It was painless.
2. I snack in-between meals. Sure, always healthy snacks, like fresh apple slices, or those pesky nuts. I stopped eating in-between meals; again, painless.
3. I have a sweet tooth. I was in the habit of adding crystallized fructose I buy at the health food store to my smoothies or hot breakfast cereal. I dropped that.
4. Occasionally I’d drink a soda, once a week, or every 10 days. Pure indulgence, but those 8-10 teaspoons of sugar had to go, even if it was only occasionally. There’s no excuse for drinking sodas, sports drinks, or energy drinks.
None of these were earth-shattering, none were tough to do. I didn’t feel deprived and simply stuck with the changes every day.
The result? An amazing 11-pound weight loss in a little over a month, down to 199.3 pounds (scale photo above). Even I was wowed, and I’m not easily wowed.
You can do the same. Remember, with even small things, it’s what we do consistently that counts.
