Dieting - Share Your Experience

Joey Dweck asked:


Losing weight is never really easy, but when you find it necessary to prepare diet meals for yourself and fare that your family will eat as well, it can become really difficult. If you find yourself in this situation, the solution may be easier than you might think. While your family need not go on a diet with you, making some changes to the way you prepare meals can help to ensure that you stick to your diet goals and your family eats healthier as well.

One of the most important things you can do to make the switch to healthier eating is pay attention to the cuts of meat that you purchase and prepare. Whenever possible, purchase the leanest cuts of meat available. They may be slightly more expensive, but the health benefits you receive are well worth the extra cost. To beef up the health benefits even more, switch from frying prep methods to other methods such as roasting, baking, grilling and broiling. This is a great way to lose weight and keep your arteries free and clear.

Everyone, whether you happen to be dieting or not, can benefit from adding more vegetables to the menu. This is only true; however, if those veggies are prepared in the healthiest ways possible. Instead of loading them down with lots of cheese and butter, opt for other tasty methods. Steamed vegetables seasoned with herbs, spices, imitation butter and/or flavored vinegar provide a tasty and healthy alternative to fat and calorie laden vegetable casserole dishes.

Unless you are on a very strict no carbohydrate diet, grains can actually be good for your weight loss plans and form a healthy part of your family’s eating routine as well. The important key is to choose healthy grains instead of those that are high in refined sugar. Opt for whole grain rolls, breads and wild rice. Not only are these choices healthier, but they also taste better.

One of the biggest problems for families where one or more members are on a diet is satisfying the sweet tooth of some without wrecking the diet plans of others. One way to handle this is by stocking the freezer and pantry with dessert options that are tasty but won’t sabotage your weight loss goals. Consider choices such as low-cal and low-fat ice cream or yogurt. Paired with an all fruit spread topping or light whipped topping, there’s a good chance the kids won’t even notice the difference as they dig in. Other great dessert alternatives include fat-free pudding, sherbet, gelatin, fruit cocktail and apple sauce.

If you really want to energize your diet and create a healthier routine for your family, consider skipping dessert all-together and heading outside for a group walk, bike ride or even a game of Frisbee or volleyball. Not only will you be setting a healthy example for the rest of your family, but you’ll also grow stronger as a family unit while spending quality time together.



Aaliyah

Janet Sommers asked:


You may be exhausted from visiting the gym, flexing some muscles and lifting heavy metal bars but still nothing happens to your beautifully crafted body. And alas! Before you know it, summer is already knocking on your door with your swimsuit hanging outside your wardrobe ready to hit the beach. With only a few weeks before everybody else head for the beach, you need to trim down so you can flaunt that sexy body coupled with the right attitude.

There are many ways to trim down that body. There are numerous free diet tips lurking over the internet. And there are supplements that promise effectively after consuming the entire box. However, these are not as effective as they seem to be. Being in a strict diet also means strict compliance with the given dietary table in order to lose weight on the shortest possible time and to be able to flaunt the skin that has been kept all this years. Here are some of the tips we can offer.

To get a washboard-like abs, you should see to it that you take in enough fibers (like the green leafy vegetables) so that it may help cleanse your intestines more and be able to increase your bowel movements. By doing so; you wash out unwanted toxins out of the body and takes in the good vitamins needed by a usually stressed out person.

Cut on the sugar intake. Deviating from a sweet-tooth to someone who does not like sugar at all is quite hard. Sugar has been associated in our system for so long and having to reduce it will spell us great discomfort. However, if you are eager to lose weight this will not be a hard task to do. Besides, excess sugar can just cause us more bulges in areas we do not want them to see.

However, the urban legend on skipping meals to flatten the tummy area is already out of context. This will not help your body to lose weight thus; it will just make you sick and from there, lose the weight you wanted to get rid off. However, getting sick from skipping meals is twice as expensive as buying a membership in the gym. So, the best thing to do is to still eat regular meals only in a regulated and highly maintained manner.

You can also have yogurt during breakfast to fasten up your metabolism and bowel movements. This is effective even if you take in too much carbohydrate. You should not forget that breakfast is the most important meal of the day so; diligence in taking your first meal coupled with your favorite yogurt will help you lose weight.

Devote an hour to an hour and a half to get your self in the machine. You can always not use the thread mill and instead run miles in the backyard or in the village’s park. This will help tone muscles in the body and at the same time make you sweat like never before.



Chase

Janine Michaels asked:


I’ll be the first to admit it – I don’t like the Cabbage Soup Diet. But you, like a lot of people out there, are looking for a quick way to lose weight and you heard that this fad diet is the way to do it.

Now as a responsible person who has some knowledge about weight loss, I should talk you out of it. I should tell you that this particular soup diet has been around for ages. Countless people have tried losing weight with cabbage soup diet recipes, and while some have succeeded, others have failed miserably.

So, you’re probably thinking that because some people have lost weight on the cabbage soup diet that means that success is possible. And I bet you’re also thinking that all diets do not work for all people. Well, you’re right about that. Dieting is not an exact science. What works for some won’t work for others.

Okay, so what’s my problem with the cabbage soup diet?

I think this diet is an extremely short-term solution to a long-term problem. Like most fad diets, you’re guaranteed to lose some water weight, which is pretty easy for most people to lose. This fact makes people think that it works miracles.

However, keep in mind that losing water weight is different than losing fat weight. Fat weight is what you really wanna lose. Fat weight is what’s making your stomach bulge and slowing your energy down.

The cabbage soup diet is going to zap you of energy and make you feel cranky and tired. Maybe not the first day or so, but stay on it for a while and you’ll see. You won’t be feeling so well. Plenty of people have done this diet and reported feeling lousy on it, but hey, maybe your experience will be different.

Okay, but does the cabbage soup diet work?

I know you’re really excited about this diet right now, but the responsible side of me just has to let you know that there are healthier ways to lose weight. Cabbage soup is tasty and can be added to a healthy meal plan, but overdoing it is not a good idea. A healthy weight loss plan contains many food items that give you protein, fruits, vegetables and yes, carbs.

Your body needs these things everyday in order to function properly. Eating cabbage soup for days on end will send your body a signal that you’re trying to starve it of nutrients. This will cause your body to react in exactly the opposite way you want. Your body will retain fat, calories and even water to protect itself from starvation.

After you go off this soup diet, every single calorie you eat will continue to be retained because your metabolism will have slowed down. This reaction may cause you to gain back what you lost and even gain a few more extra pounds on top of that. This is how your body works and there’s nothing you can do to get around it. That’s why most fad diets don’t work.

Okay, I’ve said my piece. If you still want to do the famous cabbage soup diet then go right ahead. You’re perfectly capable of making your own decisions about how you desire to lose weight.

Therefore, I’m giving you a free recipe for cabbage soup diet. I hope you like cabbage because for the next 7 days you’re going to be eating a lot of it. The plan allows you to eat some fruits, veggies and drink skim milk. On day five and six you can have beef or chicken.

So what’s the challenge?

I challenge you to eat this cabbage soup for 7 days straight and lose 10 pounds. I then challenge you to keep that weight off for another 10 days, without going back on the diet.

If you accomplish this goal, then you will have succeeded in proving me wrong (at least in this case). If you don’t succeed, then that’s okay too. I hope you visit my website and look over some healthier options for losing the weight you want.

In either case, I wish you good luck in losing those unwanted pounds for good.

Famous Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe

6 large green onions

2 green peppers

1 or 2 cans of tomatoes, diced or whole

3 carrots

1 10 oz. container mushrooms

1 bunch celery

1/2 head cabbage

1 pkg. Lipton soup mix

1 or 2 cubes bouillon, beef or chicken (optional)

12 cups water

1 48 oz. can V8 juice (optional)

Salt, pepper, garlic powder, parsley, curry (to taste)

Directions

Slice up the green onion and put it in a pot that’s been prepared with cooking spray. Cut up the green pepper, cut the stems off and take the seeds and membrane out. Cut the pepper into bite-sized pieces.

Saute the onions and green pepper in the pot.

Take off the outer leaves of the cabbage and cut the cabbage into bite-size pieces. Add cabbage to the pot.

Clean the carrots and cut them into bite-size pieces. Add carrots to the pot.

Slice the mushrooms and add to the pot. Add soup mix.

Add in the bouillon cubes, if desired.

Add in either the water or the V8 juice (do not use both). Cover pot and cook on low heat for 2 hours. Add seasonings to your taste.



Santiago

Sacha Tarkovsky asked:


Did you know that poor diet does more than make you fat? It also makes you stupid!

According to Dr. Alan Logan, in his new book “The Brain Diet”, he finds the people in the United Sates and Canada eat foods that do not contribute to healthy brain function.

In other words, eating well can make you smart, and opposite is also true, eating poorly can make you stupid.

Dr. Logan concluded that the overall diet in the US and Canada is based on an excess of nutritionally poor calories, and a lack of consumption of the proper foods that protect brain cells.

In other words, the foods that make us fat also make us stupid; and not only, also he found these foods contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

Doctors and books have been reminding us for decades now how a proper diet can help protect our bodies from cardiovascular disease and cancer, but now the link to mental and neurological health needs also to be stressed.

Dr.Logan is a naturopathic physician and professor at Harvard University’s Mind-Body Medical Institute.

He pointed out in his book that it appears to have overlooked how many nutrients are directly linked with alternation in both psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Quite interestingly, he concluded that although we have our genetic predispositions, they can be somehow influenced by the way and what we eat. Also to blame is that doctors are not taught this fact in medical school.

Can an incorrect diet lead to Alzheimer’s?

According to Dr. Logan, yes.

Things like eating packaged candy when one is tired in the afternoon, can certainly increase the diabetes and heart disease, but he pointed out that the increased insulin secretions associated with a sugary diet increase the risk for Alzheimer’s and depression.

It seems the most harm is done by eating the combination of the wrong types of fat with too much sugar in the same diet.

This diet produces a fat that becomes part of brain cells surrounding membranes. Brain cells are normally flexible.

However, a diet that includes an excess of trans fat, Omega-6 fatty acids, and saturated fats, can cause the brain cells to be inflexible. What does this do? It disrupts brain cell communication and affects our cognitive abilities.

Dr. Logan sited one study where animals that consumed an excess of trans fats had a much greater risk of getting Alzheimer’s and had a much decreased cognitive ability. He mentioned that a poor diet sets the stage from anything like ADHD to schizophrenia.

Dr. Logan’s Brain Diet.

There is a very good brain diet cited, but of utmost importance, if nothing else is done, is to increase one’s intake of Omega-3 fatty acids.

These will help not only one’s cardiovascular system, but also protect a person from neurological disorders.

Dr. Logan also states that increasing your Omega-3 fatty acids can have a good effect on your mental abilities, mood and act as an anti-depressant.

Citing recent studies, Dr.Logan concluded that nutrition can have both positive effects (if correct) and very negative ones (if incorrect) on your cognitive abilities.

Examine what you eat. Are you foods full of trans fats?

Are you eating only processed and packaged foods with over-doses of sugars, wrong fats, and chemicals? T

hese could not just be making you stupid, but could be setting the stage for early mental decline and even an untimely death.



Nath

Anthony Robbinson asked:


“Taking my experience along with hardcore scientific evidence and helping YOU to be in the best shape of your life!” Anthony-

(Part 1)

Exercise:

Weight loss is simply taking in fewer calories and choosing an exercise that’s right for you to burn the fat.



I would recommend starting off with 30 minutes of some type of cardiovascular exercise 3-4 times per week. This would include, bicycle, treadmill, running, swimming, etc. Follow this up with 30-40 minutes of resistance training.

Not ready to join an exercise class? Walking just not your thing? Don’t settle for doing nothing because you don’t like the thought of exercise. Guess what? You don’t have to force yourself into exercise that isn’t appealing. By thinking about the activities that you enjoyed most in the past — or interests you’d like to develop — you will find something to look forward to.

You’ve always loved to swim? What a great way to strengthen your muscles and pump up your cardio system.

Always been good at Basketball? Take it up again. Basketball strengthens and tones your whole body with all of that sprinting and jumping a good game involves.

Admire the grace and and strength of ballet dancers? Sign up for a beginner’s class. Ballet buildsmuscles which will help you burn fat and it brings extra benefits like agility and ease-of-movement.

So sit down and brainstorm some ideas … you’re sure to come up with a form of exercise that suits you! GET MOVING!

Diet:

If you start eating 2500 calories per day then your metabolism will adjust itself so that you will burn 2500 calories per day. The same with trying to starve yourself with 1000 calories per day then again, your metabolism will ADJUST itself to burn those 1000 calories per day. That’s why people will fail with dieting attempts by starving themselves. Now you know the reason why you can eat 1,000 calories per day and not lose any weight while your friends can eat 2,500 calories per day and not gain any weight!

Also, virtually every person in today’s society is buying mostly “low fat” or “non fat” food at the grocery store, everybody is conscious of the “fat grams” inside the food they buy. However, people are getting fatter than ever by doing this and are not losing weight by switching to the “low fat lifestyle”.

The fact still remains that to lose weight, you must decrease the amount of calories you take in and increase the amount of calories you burn. Finding a balance between protein, carbohydrates and fat while adding exercise and good supplements can be the key to your success!

I like the 40/40/20 rule. That’s a good balance of protein, carbs and good fats (in that order). Keeping in mind that your fruits and veggies count. Following the Glycemic Index (GI) from my previous article is extremely helpful along with keeping a food journal.

Keeping to the basics is the best!

To be cont….



Enrico

Sylvia Riley asked:


Top 10 Diet Tips for Ultimate Health and Optimum Weight!

1. Raw Power

Raw plant foods are healthy, regenerative, cleansing and energising, packed with potent compounds that gift the body in numerous ways. Raw food boosts the immune system, enhances digestion and has reputed benefits for weight loss and clear, beautiful skin. It is much more easily digested, taking half to a third of the time of cooked food and provides substantial amounts of healthy fibre, nutrients, benevolent oils, antioxidants and life-giving enzymes.

2. Know Your Fats

Hydrogenated fats and refined cooking oils contain harmful trans-fatty acids and free radical toxins that poison the body. Excess saturated animal fats are also detrimental to health and contribute to clogged arteries, heart disease, obesity and cancer. Natural cold-pressed oils such as nut, seed, olive and fish oils contain monounsaturated fats, healthy essential fatty acids, nutrients and phytochemicals that serve the body. Coconut oil is a ‘miracle oil’ that has a myriad of health benefits and actually aids weight loss! Flax seed and fish oils are super rich in essential omega-3 oils which enhance the burning of fats in the body and serve numerous important health functions.

3. Eat Your Greens

Some of the healthiest and most nutritious foods on the planet are green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and kale, green algae (spirulina and chlorella for example) and grasses such as wheat grass and barley grass. As well as the plethora of nutrients and phytochemicals these foods contain, one key ingredient they all share is chlorophyll, a powerful cleanser and detoxifier. Chlorophyll binds to heavy metals and is excellent in helping to remove them from the body. Laboratory tests have demonstrated the ability of chlorophyll to inhibit the growth of bacteria and viruses and repair damaged tissues.

4. No sugar

We all enjoy a little sweetness in our lives, yet there’s no getting away from the negative effects of sugar. These include immune system suppression, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, tooth decay, premature aging, hormone imbalance, free radicals, osteoporosis, heart disease and the feeding cancer cells. Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharine are very dangerous alternatives. Try natural sugars such as dried and fresh fruit, or stevia, a healthy sugar subsitute.

5. Phytonutrients

There are literally 1000’s of active compounds in plants known as phytonutrients now recognised for their astonishing health virtues. They have been shown to play an active role in the prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases as well as lowering cholesterol, detoxifying the blood, relieving allergies and neutralising free radicals. Dr James Duke of the US Department of Agriculture states that ‘One gram of preventative phytonutrients is better than a ton of curative drugs’. Phytochemicals correspond with the colour attributes of plants, hence eating a rainbow selection of vegetables and fruits ensures a healthy and varied intake of these health promoting compounds.

6. Cut Out Refined Carbohydrates

Refined carbohydrates such as white flour and white rice are robbed of nutrient value and are high-glycemic, one step away from ingesting sugar directly. This raises insulin levels in the blood which in turn prevents the burning of fat for energy and increases the risk of obesity and diabetes. Stick to healthy whole grains which are absorbed slowly and do not lead to imbalanced sugar levels, such as brown rice, millet, spelt, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth or natural white rice such as jasmin or basmati.

7. Antioxidants Foods

Antioxidants subjugate the attack of free radicals in the body, the hazardous molecules implicated in the onset of aging and disease. Although we produce many of our own antioxidants within the body, food provides an essential source for these key players of our defence system with superfoods providing a particularly opulent supply (berries, spinach, prunes, onions, grapes and Brussel sprouts being some examples).

8. Avoid Dairy

Increased dairy consumption has been linked with numerous diseases and conditions including acne, allergies, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Chron’s disease, and even osteoporosis. Milk also contains harmful synthetic hormones (such as BGH), drugs and pesticides. Try rice milk or nut milks as alternatives (avoid soy however as it has deleterious effects on the body with plenty of research available online regarding this).

9. An Alkaline Diet

PH balance in the body is imperative for health and resistance to disease. To achieve this it is important to ensure you include predominantly alkaline foods in your diet (60-80%) such as fresh vegetables and fruits which contain alkalising minerals like magnesium, calcium, and potassium. An acidic system (Acidosis) is associated with a wide range of health problems including stomach ulcers, arthritis, bladder and kidney conditions, diabetes, osteoporosis, fungal overgrowth, heart disease, cancer and weight gain. Foods that acidify the body include sugar, meat, dairy products, eggs, fats and most grains (except millet, quinoa and amaranth). Some of the ‘best’ acid foods include brown rice, nuts and seeds, beans and lentils, oats and fish.

10. Plenty of Superfoods!

Superfoods are the most potent, anti aging, antioxidant rich, nutrient dense, disease fighting, beautifying, immune boosting, mood enhancing foods on the planet! They include regular foods that may already feature in your diet such as broccoli and spinach, as well as more unusual ones such as bee pollen and aloe vera. There are many, all worth exploring, and once discovered you’ll not want to be without them!



Landon

Rebecca Prescott asked:


There are any number of supplements and treatments advertised as the answer to a menopausal woman’s prayers. You could spend a lot of time and money trying them all. Some do work but the best way to help menopausal symptoms is to eat a balanced diet.

WHAT SHOULD I EAT?

Try and include something from each food group to get your diet balanced. Aim to eat grains, carbohydrates, proteins (and protein alternatives), dairy products, fats and a lot of fruit and vegetables. Try to take it easy on fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

Aim to eat three meals a day - especially if you have been in the habit of skipping breakfast. Have a small, nutritious snack between meals, to keep your energy levels up. To keep your weight at a healthy level, check your portion sizes - eat on a smaller plate if it helps! Have an occasional treat - you’re only human and it will keep you focused on your new eating plan - but keep them occasional!

HOW YOU CAN USE FOOD TO MANAGE SYMPTOMS

You may be experiencing hot flashes, swings in your mood and be putting on weight. These can all be helped by eating right. Let’s look at what you can do to help these symptoms.

HOT FLASHES

Along with night sweats, these are probably the menopause symptoms that women hate most. Waking up several times at night in a pool of sweat is not fun. Hot flashes can make you feel unwell, be embarrassing at work, make it difficult to get to sleep, and can drive you nuts.

Try and identify what triggers your hot flashes. For many women, these are coffee, tea, alcohol and spicy food. Try and reduce your intake of these. Increasing the amount of water you drink can really help. Aim for at least 8 glasses each day - it’s great for your skin too!

Try to eat foods containing phytoestrogens. These are plant estrogen-like compounds that can help a lot of your symptoms. You’ll find them in beans, legumes, seaweed, yams, apples, potatoes and carrots. Soy is a high source of them.

Caution: if you are a breast cancer survivor and your tumor was estrogen positive, I’m afraid you’ll have to give the phytoestrogens a miss. Ironically, tamoxifen given to estrogen positive breast cancer ladies can cause horrible hot flushes. But anything containing estrogen must be avoided.

MOOD SWINGS

During menopause, hormones fluctuate and this can cause mood swings and even depression. People who are depressed often have a low level of serotonin in their brain. Eating carbohydrates can help to bring up your serotonin levels and ease the depression. Go for bagels, whole grain breads and cereals. And Omega 3 essential fatty acids such as those found in salmon, are great for alleviating depression.

WEIGHT GAIN

As estrogen levels go down during the menopause, fat in the body redistributes itself, unfortunately settling around the stomach. Muscle mass also decreases, which slows down your metabolism and can result in your weight going up. Cut down your fat intake and aim to avoid saturated fats. Broil and grill food instead of frying and if you do fry, use a little olive oil. If you are retaining water, drinking water will help to flush out your system and may help to increase your metabolism. And nothing boosts your metabolism like exercise!

After menopause, women are more at risk from heart disease. Eat oily fish, rich in Omega-3, to help your circulation. Reduce saturated fats and swap processed flour for whole grain.

To guard against thinning bones, aim to have between 1200 and 1500mg of calcium each day. Eat low fat yogurt, cheese, sardines and leafy green vegetables. Go easy on caffeine, as it can prevent the body from properly absorbing calcium.



Justin

Kevin Pederson asked:


Often, the term detox is associated with treating the body for alcohol or drug addiction. However, detox also can refer to cleansing the body of environmental and dietary toxins accumulated over time to improve health or to lose weight. Generally, detox dieters will detox once or twice a year. Health practitioners recommend that such short-term cleansing not occur more than three times a year.

A detox diet will minimize the intake of unnecessary chemicals and emphasize such foods that are rich in vitamins and antioxidants that are essential to detoxification. Additionally, these diets emphasize foods that encourage the elimination of toxins through excretion such as high fiber foods and water. Often, water is a key element of any effective detox diet.

For the detox diet novice, health professionals suggest easing into detoxification by following a simple detox diet plan. Basically, this plan involves drinking plenty of water and eating one type of fruit for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The dieter should not mix the types of fruit at each meal. It is best to eat until hunger subsides. Other detoxifications focus on smoothies and juices rather than raw fruits. There are many websites that offer a detox diet recipe for smoothies made of almost any fruit.

Typically, people engage in detox diets to improve overall energy, the skin, digestion and bowel movements, and mental awareness. There are different detox diets aimed at improving the state of different organs such as the skin, kidneys, liver, and lymph system to name a few. Water fasting has become highly associated with detox diets. In fact, many people engage in water fasting for weight loss in addition to cleansing the body.

When water fasting, the dieter drinks water only when he or she is thirsty. One of the main ideas behind the water fasting diet is that there is no energy wasted on the digestive processes of the body. The only energy that the body exerts is to warm cold water to maintain a level body temperature. Because the water diet does not require any foods for several days, the body has more energy to burn in eliminating and releasing toxins. This energy conservation also allows the body to recover from the stresses caused by the digestion of solid foods.

With the recent popularity surge of the detox diet and the water diet, manufactures have begun producing diet water. Many health professionals are skeptical of such a product since water itself contains no calories or nutritional value. However, most diet water contains a natural ingredient known as Super CitriMax, which helps the body suppress feelings of hunger and increases metabolism. When not fasting, many individuals will drink diet water shortly before a meal to control eating habits.



Kristine

Zach Hunt asked:


When it comes to fitness and dieting, the Slippery Slope is certainly not a fallacy.

First, what is this fallacy known as the Slippery slope. The Slippery Slope is a logic fallacy which assumes taking one step will lead to a following outcome that cannot be prevented.

The Slippery Slope may be a fallacy in logic, but it certainly is not in dieting.

Have you ever had one of those dieting slippery slope moments?

Maybe your going over to your family potluck, or an office party at work.

You feel good and have had a great day. You got some exercise in the early morning at 6AM and you’ve eaten several quality meals since then.

Suddenly you are enveloped by the atmosphere of eating and food. Your taste buds start to water and you’re ready to throw your diet out the window.

And your off….

The party starts. You see ravenous mouths attack the food with fierceness and might. Then you see your favorite dessert, wolfberry pie.

(Yes, wolfberry is an actual berry)

In a moment of weakness you wolf down that wolfberry pie, then out of the side of your eye you catch a glimpse of your sister’s cookies. You then just tear into that large bag of treats. Your grandmother’s spaghetti sounds good as well.

Your diet is now out the window!!

It is a slippery slope from there, in that once you pop you can’t stop type of thing. A temporary loss of self control can result in a day long binge or even a weekend eating fest.

You see, once you are on that slope, it just keeps going down hill from there. When it comes to nutrition, this slippery slope is alive and well. The first step of tempting food can and will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented.

The easy way out - don’t go near the top of the hill. Just stay back, far back. Stay on track for your diet.

Do you ever feel like you are on a slippery slope in life?

One slip after another leading you down a slippery slope into greater confusion and no results in your dieting and fitness program.

Accountability and motivation will help keep you going every single day and moving forward every hour to your overall fitness goal and a better life.



Chase

Jim Mackey asked:


Weight Watchers is infamous for being one of the only proven, tried-and-true weight loss programs on the market. Many overweight men and women have used Weight Watchers through the years to lose a little or even a lot of weight, improve their health, and learn how to live a better life. Weight Watchers promotes healthy diet and exercise and provides a plethora of information on how to fit a healthy diet into a busy lifestyle.

Weight Watchers has not only published many cookbooks but has also made available an entire line of frozen food entrees that are inexpensive, affordable, healthy, and fast. Many people are under the misconception that Weight Watchers is only for people concerned about their weight; however Weight Watchers can be for everybody. Anyone can enjoy Weight Watchers’ recipes everyday.

WHEN COOKING, REMEMBER THE F WORD!

In December 2007, a special on BBC America’s ‘Chef Gordon Ramsay’s: The F Word’ was featured about the notion of eating Christmas dinner every night. The special highlighted the points that if families made a home cooked meal every night for dinner the results would be a healthier diet (since everything is cooked from scratch), less money spent on eating out, and a tighter family bond from eating at the table together. Clearly, not everyone has the time or energy to cook an entire Christmas dinner every night, however with a little planning and resourcefulness it can be very easy to cook at home more often. Online and in print, Weight Watchers has published thousands of recipes that are not only healthy and tasty, but also cost-effective and fast. Most Weight Watchers meals can be prepared and cooked in less than 30 minutes and use common, inexpensive ingredients.

SO MANY CHOICES…SO LITTLE TIME

Planning a home cooked meal every day can be a daunting task for most people, however it really doesn’t need to be. Many Weight Watchers recipes incorporate several of the same ingredients such as Orange Balsamic Chicken, Crusty Chicken Pot Pie, and Italian Stuffed Chicken. Choosing recipes that are similar then saves you time and money at the grocery store since you do not need to remember to buy many extra ingredients that you wouldn’t normally use every day. Weight Watchers recipes also teach you how to use healthier ingredients in every day life, such as olive oil instead of butter, grains instead of starches, and leaner proteins like chicken, turkey and fish instead of red meats. The best part of Weight Watchers recipes is that most of them are available for free online. Clearly, Weight Watchers has mastered the art of combining healthy living with simplicity.

You might be thinking anything classified as a diet recipe is going to be bland, unsatisfying, leaving you hungry and missing out on your favorite foods. Not a chance! Weight Watchers has recipes in every category imaginable, like Asian or Mexican , breads, soups, Crock Pot dinners, grilled, salads and of course dessert.



Toni