The Best Weight Loss Advice EVER!

Over the years I have come across some of the best advice to help me on my journey toward discipline and a healthy body. Below, I would like to share with you some of the best advice ever!

At the top of the list, probably the best tip ever was...

(1) Break up your meals. Eat a portion at one sitting and one to two hours later eat the other half.

Why is that such good advice?

Where do I start?

First of all, you end up eating six times a day instead of three, your metabolism is constantly being jolted, because you are eating more often, you are never famished and the best best best part is you end up eating less.

How is that?

Well, think about it. When you eat three times a day, don't you usually have two or three snacks throughout the day?

Breaking up your meals actually cuts out snacking. You don't believe me? Give it a try.

(2) Make water your best friend. I can hear you saying right now, "but I hate the taste of water." You and a million other people. I'll tell you this. I used to hate drinking my coffee without sugar, but now I love it. I used to hate drinking tea without sugar, but now I love it and I used to hate hate hate green tea but now it's one of my best friends. AND I used to hate my boss, until I fell in love with him.

So what's my point?

The point is just because you don't like something today doesn't mean you won't one day like it. I speak from experience here. Of all the perks for consuming more water and there are many, one of the best best best reasons is because the more of it you drink, the less you desire sweetened beverages. And water makes you feel good and to me, feeling good is everything.

(3) Have a Plan B for your exercise program. I learned this a long time ago. There will always be days when you will not feel like following through on your exercise plan. Plan B is a form of negotiation between you and you. Here is what you do. Say you are committed to walking the treadmill for 40 minutes five days a week and you are going along smoothly until that one day--you are not in the mood for whatever reason, you had a bad day, you're crabby, angry, WHATEVER. Your Plan B says you will proceed with your workout, HOWEVER, you only have to do half. So instead of 40 minutes, you walk 20 minutes.

Why is this so important?

Because working out for 20 minutes instead of 0 minutes sets the tone for consistency and discipline. Do this long enough and exercise becomes as important as going to work.

(4) Fill up on green fiber-rich vegetables. Fiber really does fill you up. Did you know that it is possible to cut your calories by as much as 700 to 800 and not feel hungry, just by filling up with fiber. You don't believe me? Check out the book "Fiber35Diet." You will be amazed. I was too.

I hope you find the above advice helpful and that you are willing to give it a try if only to prove me wrong.

Wishing you many good things and slim belly,

Summer Jones is an author and freelance writer. "How I Lost 40 Pounds Utilizing the Law of Attraction" is scheduled for publication in December, 2008. Her soon-to-be-published title is the result of the author’s exquisite insight into personal and sometimes, controversial studies of transformation and human potential. She lives in Illinois and is currently working on a series of nonfiction books.

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