I’ll give you an example. Yesterday it had been three hours since my last meal. It was about 2:30 and I thought I’m not going to make it to “dinner” time. Another point is if I did make it to 5 PM I would be famished, and eat too much, too fast.  With this in mind, I grabbed a bowl, and through some baby carrots in and put it next to the computer. Now instead of snacking on chips, I was snacking on carrots.  While carrots may not be the MMMMM factor of chips, they are definitiely healthier and the they achived their goal - I wasn’t hungry any more.

There are all sorts of healthy snacks that you can eat to get you through the day. I’m tring to space mine out every 3 to 4 hours. If I see it’s only been 90 minutes then I tell myself, “You’re not really hungry - you’re bored” (and that’s probably the truth).

While I’m currently experiementing with Diet Pro nutrition and fitness coaching software, one of the things I like about Vidaone software (that I’ve been using) is I can see when the last time I had something to eat.  By keeping my starvation mode in check, I’m less likely to pig out when I get to eat. As I said before, more and more people are saying this is the key to their success.  Jorge Cruise even has a 3-hour diet book.

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Web MD Introduces New Fitness Tools

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthy-eating-fitness-services

These include a Diet Health Check, a food and fitness planer, a food-o-meter, and a fit-o-meter, a bmi plus calculator, a portion size plate, expert interviews, diet food and fitness videos, free food and fitness jourlnal and portion guides. It’s pretty impressive. Web MD Fitness Tools

Spark People Has A January Calendar

You can print out a calendar with all sort of tips and insights to help you reach those resolutions.  It may take a month to develop new habits and this calendar can help.

Free Exercise and Food Guides

Exercise guides can make your workouts more efficient as you don’t have to remember what you did last time.  You can use them to chart your progress (which builds confidence). Here are a few free examples.

Bodybuilding.com

FitWatch.com

WebMD

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This show originates from www.logicalloss.com This is show 50

Never Say Diet Part I

I bought the book “Never Say Diet” from Chantel Hobbs. In it she talk about the top excuses for not losing weight. These include:

“I can’t afford a gym membership” - Good news Exercises is FREE.

“I don’t like to work out.” - Do you love heart doctors and medication?

“I just want to use diet pills.” - If there was a pill that worked, don’t you think we’d all know about it?

“I have too much weight to lose.” - Don’t think about what you have to lose.  You have too much to gain not to start today.

“Isn’t healthy food expensive?” - So are doctors visits.

One of the key points of this book is changing your brain.  I’ll talk more about that in the future.

Weight Loss Tips from Football

Last year the Miami Dolphins only won 1 game. This year they won 11 and are going to the playoffs. The difference? A new General Manager, and a new “mindset” or “Culture” as many of the players explained. In general, the team members believed in themselves again. They changed their brain first.  As the old saying goes, if you think you can or you think you can’t - you’re right.

New Diet Software - Diet Power

I just found out about Diet Power software. I just downloaded it, and will be checking it out over the next few weeks (there is a 14 day free trial). It seems very, very powerful, and yet simple.  You can get your free download at dietpower.logicalloss.com

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Building on Your Past

Is there that one day in your past that was so very heard? I do. I had to tell my Grandmother that she had outlived my Mother.  Because of that day, and experience, I know I can get through very tough situations that I never thought I could.

Think of yours. You may have thought you never could get through it, but you did. Well losing weight is hard, and you may feel you can’t do it, but you can. If you made it through your toughest situation, you can make it through the process of losing weight.

Celebrate and Remember Your Victories

This week I had numerous temptations in the form of Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, McDonald’s again, and other times “the little voice” wanted me to do something I knew was not going to be the right choice.

By doing the right thing you are practicing doing the right thing, and you will find it easier to do in the past.  I have this mental list in my head now so when I drive down the street I can tell myself “beat that, overcome that one, ” and more.

By being consistent, I am seeing results (I’m down to 209 lbs). I am walking 2 miles in the morning, and in the early evening I do the rest of my 10,00 steps. I’m eating better and exercising more, and it is starting to pay off. It’s taken a few weeks, but it is starting to pay off.

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This post is a question for me readers. Have you heard of Acai? (ah - sigh -ee). I hadn’t. But apparently Hollywood (Rachel Ray) is all over this Brazilian berry. We have Oprah’s Dr. Perricone’s declaring it the number one super food. At Oprah.com he claims:

açaí tastes like a vibrant blend of berries and chocolate

• A remarkable concentration of antioxidants that help combat premature aging, with 10 times more antioxidants than red grapes and 10 to 30 times the anthocyanins of red wine.
• A synergy of monounsaturated (healthy) fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols to help promote cardiovascular and digestive health.
• An almost perfect essential amino acid complex in conjunction with valuable trace minerals, vital to proper muscle contraction and regeneration.

It’s also supposed to help you lose weight.  The interesting thing is I’ve never heard of it. (of course I don’t watch Oprah). The last miracle drug I heard was Hoodia which was the “miracle natural appetite suppressant” from and African plant.  I remember seeing the report on 60 minutes about Hoodia

If you go to Oprah’s site you will also notice people have commented saying how hard it is to cancel their subscription.

So I went and looked into Acai and I see how this works.  I notice one thing right off the bat at the bottom of the page. This has not been evaluated by the FDA. I then notice that when you go to order your free 14 day trial (you pay a small shipping and handling fee) that what you are really doing is signing up to get a 14 day trial, and then a 2 months supply (for $79 + 7 bucks for shipping). You can also sign up for 6 bottles and get 6 free (etc, etc).

So my question to you dear readers, is anybody using this and does it work? If its working what else are you doing? I mean after all if Oprah’s doctor said it must be true right? Hmmm Let me know. Leave a comment, call the toll free number 888-563-3228.

Its even getting some press in the news.

If you want to try some (I’d love to hear if it works) you can order your Acai berry here

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Today I talk about the book Prevention’s 3-2-1 weight loss plan by Joy Bauer. It outlines a circuit training program that involves 3 minutes of cardio, 2 minutes of strength training, and 1 minute of working on your abs. While it is geared towards women, it had some interesting tips on stopping emotional eating and more.

We get an email from Linda Sim who has lost 25 lbs this year, as she talks about why she likes the show and shares with us her favorite workout tunes.

I’m pleased that Michelle won the biggest loser. The next season starts Jan. 6 and it will have a 19 year old boy who weighs 454 lbs. and have a couple who is 63 years old.

Circuit training has been shown to increase weight loss efforts and it stops your exercise form being boring (as you are switching from one exercise to another. The book has lots of exercises and I feel it would be hard to keep your heart rate in the proper zone while using the book as you’d have to memorize a number of examples.

Also there are some interesting “games” for fitness for the Ninendo Wii and Nintendo DS that are geared towards having fun and losing weight.

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