Weight Watchers, Cambridge, Atkins, Weight Watchers, Cabbage Soup, South Beach, Weigh Down Workshop, Tops, Weight Watchers... I've been on all these diets and probably some that I've forgotten. To tell the truth, they all worked. I lost weight on all of them. The thing I couldn't do was keep the weight off.
Changing one's behavior for good seems to be the key. My daughter, Jackie, is a naturally thin person. She occasionally gets "puffy" like the rest of us, but the difference is she knows that at a certain weight she feels good and functions at her best. When her weight creeps up around 5 pounds or so over that, she just naturally cuts back and increases her exercise. I've seen her do it many times even as a young girl. The question is, how to channel Jackie?
Already, keeping a food diary has revealed that I'm consuming a lot more food than I realized. Diets are a thing of the past, just eating less, staying away from carby stuff and no grazing between meals will be the new plan. Eating smaller meals throughout the day instead of a lot of food at one sitting is a hard habit to change. Maybe just being aware of it will be a good start.
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