Remember that waist is more important than weight.
Belly fat is one of the strongest predictors of health risks associated with obesity. Ditch the scale in favor of the tape measure.
Know your body.
Understand the beauty of your internal organs to appreciate what you can do to influence them.
Stay satisfied.
To lose weight, you need to eat.
Add support.
Enlist a friend, family member, or new cyber buddy as your partner.
Know that it's OK to make mistakes.
As long as you quickly get back on the right road, you won't travel too far down the wrong one.
Eating Strategies for YOU
To help make eating automatic, pick at least one meal a day to alter and have the same foods every day for all other meals.
Eat throughout the day so that you're constantly satisfied. The less you eat, the more likely you are to sink into starvation mode and make your body want to store fat.
Inspect food labels. Limit saturated fats to less than 4 grams per serving, and avoid all trans fats. Don't buy foods where high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), or another simple sugar, is more than 4 grams per serving, or one of the first five ingredients. You're avoiding simple sugars in foods not just because of the calories but because they induce highs and lows in blood sugar that put you into a cycle of craving more high-calorie foods.
Eat foods with fiber, healthy fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated), whole-grain carbohydrates, and protein, as well as fruits and vegetables. Eat a little healthy fat before your meal (like one handful of nuts) to allow the satiety signal to go from your brain to your stomach, so you don't overeat during your meal. Eat fiber in the morning to help control afternoon cravings. Eat anti-inflammatory foods to help counteract the effects of obesity. Anti-inflammatory foods include green tea, omega-3 fatty acids (found in fish and walnuts), coffee, vegetables, and fruit.
