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Here are some steps you can start taking right now.
Step One:
Start taking a high quality, food based vitamin and mineral complex. Almost all diet books recommend this, including the Atkins diet, etc. Yet many people take some cheap synthetic supplement from the grocery store, or skip this important step completely, and wonder why these diets don't work for them.
The supplementation of needed nutrients may help reduce cravings and also make you feel more energetic. This one simple thing can help you begin to eat less and to exercise more. Those are the goals.
Maybe one of the reasons you might feel like you are craving food is because you are craving the missing nutrients. Women's diets are made up of many empty foods these days and empty foods simply do not satisfy.
A high quality womens health supplement and a glass of water along with your meals can go a long way in helping your body to feel full, satisfied, healthy and happy. This will make any of the womens diets easier to follow and get more successful results.
Step Two:
The next womens diets secret is to stop gaining more weight. It may sound obvious but this step alone is a real challenge.
In typical womens diets, just an extra 100 calories every day can put ten added pounds on our bodies per year. In five years we can wake up with an extra fifty extra pounds to carry around and wonder what the heck happened to us. It just sneaks up on us day by day.
One hundred calories is not much. You can get it in one handful of potato chips or French fries or shredded cheese. Before trying to lose weight, we need to first just try to stop gaining any more. Level off and hold on. Maintain our current weight. Make this our first goal challenge to achieve. It isn't easy, but first steps are usually the hardest and then the next steps follow with less difficulty.
How do we do it?
We need to stop the sneak-up-on-us daily weight gain. One good to do this is to keep a womens diets food journal. A written record? Yes it is a challenge. We won't kid you. You'll have to be tough and determined. Nobody has to see this journal but you. It is your own personal private record of what you eat, every single thing.
Write down every bite. Be a detective. Have no mercy. You'll be shocked. It is worse than a budget where you write down every penny you spend. You'll be aghast. It isn't pretty. Especially when you find out what is lurking in innocent looking foods in womens diets today.
So many people may say, "But all I had was a muffin and a coffee." Yes but some muffins have 1000 calories and some fancy coffee lattes have many hundreds more. The most fattening Starbucks frappuccino drink ever actually had 870 calories and 32 grams of fat. They don't make that one any longer, much to the relief of womens diets.
The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest says that having one of those coffee milkshakes was like drinking two McDonald's Quarter Pounder sandwiches.
Add a 450 calorie scone or muffin and that shake together and this one "little snack" could equal 1,320 calories for breakfast and quickly use up most of your calorie needs for the whole day. Yet it has very little quality food value. So you may feel hungry, tired and irritable. And you paid good money for that.
Super-sized muffins, deep fried scones (scones are similar to donuts) and fat-filled coffee drinks have no doubt sabotaged many womens diets.
A conspiracy?
It seems like a conspiracy. Don't worry. We are on your side. And you have lots of company. Over half of the population needs to lose some weight. The difference is that you are now doing something positive about it. Making up your mind and getting started on any of the womens diets is half the battle. Congratulate yourself. Nice work! Welcome to the team.
If you are in the latte crowd, learn the lighter fare to order by studying up on the menu at the coffee shops you go to.
Starbucks offers many low calorie choices along with the higher calorie indulgences. Just say "I'll have a coffee of the day." Or simply order your latte with nonfat milk.
You can still be part of the social scene but you secretly know that your beverage has very few calories and fat grams, while the others have hundreds and hundreds of empty calories and dozens of fat grams. While everyone chats about womens diets, you are secretly following one of your own.
Just a few minor adjustments in day-to-day womens diets can add pounds or take off pounds every month.
Some people may question or criticize you for having plain coffee or a nonfat latte. Just smile and tell them you simply love the flavor and want to taste it the way they brewed it, not with syrups and chocolate milk and whipped cream added. Hey you are a purist, a true coffee lover. Everyone has their preference. So what? Change the subject. Ask them about their day. They will quickly forget you and talk about themselves non-stop.
The next challenge is to skip the high calorie muffin or deep fried scone. A survey by USA Today found that over half of the people who buy a cup of coffee also buy a pastry, bagel or breakfast sandwich to go with it. Do you feel the peer pressure like we do? If anyone bothers you just say "Oh I had a protein smoothie already this morning. It really filled me up, but you go ahead." Or have a low calorie biscotti instead. It is a treat with fewer calories, several hundred less calories than scones or muffins. Don't criticize other womens diets and eating habits. Just do your own thing and set a good example.
Lunch:
Fast food may have sunk more womens diets than anything else. If you go out to a fast food burger restaurant, get whatever meal is made with grilled chicken breast. Most places offer a chicken sandwich, chicken soft taco or chicken salad. And have a glass of water with it.
If people urge you to get a fatty cheeseburger with bacon and mayonnaise, say you are "bored with burgers and fries" and are in the mood for a chicken sandwich today. That ground beef has been giving you a tummy ache lately. You are enjoying that chicken. They should try it too. Change the subject.
You'll be amazed at how other people use peer pressure to try to get you to eat the wrong foods, saying things like, "Help me eat these french fries." Misery loves company. Some people will be secretly jealous of your willpower and healthy eating habits. They may subconscously try to sabotage your diet. Thanks a lot.
The little things add up.
Once we level off at our current weight and stop gaining any more, this very important victory leads us to the next step of successful womens diets and weight loss.
Step Three:
The next weight loss secret is to lose one or two pounds and keep it off. If we can do this successfully, and then repeat it once a month, we will lose twelve to twenty four pounds and keep it off. Take it one small one or two pound weight loss step at a time.
We didn't gain this weight over night and no magical women's diet can take it back off over night either. There are no "miracle" women's diets. Yet if we lose just one pound a week we will lose fifty pounds in one year!
The Emotional Game
You are still the same wonderful person you always were. Don't beat yourself up or feel guilty.
If you were born in the late 19th century you would no doubt be one of the 97% of the population who were textbook examples of body weight proportions. You'd have healthy food and a physically demanding daily routine full of exercise.
It is just your luck to live in the time in history when 60% of the population is overweight due to "empty" foods and "sit still" jobs and leisure activities. It's not fair, but it is reality.
The timing couldn't be worse either. In the past, people admired natural, rounded figures. The great painter Ruben immortalized these curvy beauties.
Nowadays society has gone though a phase where the "starved" look is in. If the legendary beauty Marilyn Monroe were in Hollywood today she would be sent home to go on a diet and flatten out her famous hourglass figure.
Thankfully, some women with real life figures, like curvy Jennifer Lopez, are changing the style back to where real women with normal figures are appreciated again.
Tips for losing a pound a week:
When eating at home, use a smaller plate. It looks like you have a lot of food and it tricks your brain into thinking you have more than enough to eat.
Eat fewer refined pastas and breads and add more lean meats, fruits and vegetables. Eat like they did in the Stone Age. Meat, vegetables and fruits. They didn't have white bread, sugary breakfast cereals, soda pop and potato chips in womens diets back then.
After a meal, put leftovers away immediately so you don't snack on them later.
You can also help your body to feel satisfied by taking a top quality pure fish oil supplement. These "good fats" help your body feel satisfied and not crave bad fats. Try this and you may be amazed.
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