FOOD ADVERTISEMENTS

We are bombarded with food advertisements daily on tv, coupons, billboards by the food industry. We can be driving down the road and we come across our favorite fast food restaurant. We are not even hungry but we see the 2 for $3.00 meal and have a second breakfast.

After the promotion ends, what do we do, we order 2 because we are used to eating two. I'd say the advertisement was a success. Food advertisers spend billions and billions manipulating us emotionally through our stomachs.

Take time to consciously think about what we are eating and how much. New York requires that calorie contents be disclosed on the menu while ordering. You would be suprised at the amount of calories you consume in the 2 for $3.00 deal

SEEING THE FINISH LINE

A lot of weight loss programs purely focus on points, calories, or what we can and cannot have in our daily diets. Everyone knows what we can and cannot have after a few weeks. I believe where these programs fail is they dont get our minds focused on our goal, whether is it getting healthier or fitting into a certain size. Unless you are a virgin to dieting, everyone gets that we have to eat less to weigh less.

Visualization is one step in achieving our goal. Imagining your future positive self. A lot of thought is given to what we miss when we are dieting. Give some thought to what we will feel like when we reach our goal, how good we will look, the compliments we will receive, how we won't be wearing black, or long jackets to cover us up, shorts in the summer, cute tank tops, not layers and layers of clothes.
It takes the focus off the negative and puts it on a positive.

Dieters who believe that they will reach their goal are more successful. It is like seeing the finish line. Nobody quits when they see the finish line.

TAKE SOME TIME TO SEE YOUR FINISH LINE.

HEIGHT WEIGHT CHART.

Ever wonder what you should weigh?

IM LOOKING SO GOOD TODAY

SLENDER BY SUMMER

I guess I am realizing that there are certain foods I simply cannot eat in any portion amount if I am going to maintain a good weight. Despite the Weight Watcher's diet with an emphasis on portion control, I just doesnt work for me. Even small amounts of refined carbohydrates simply put me on edge. It is like a smoker, no amount is safe to avoid readdiction.

WEIGHT LOSS IS 20 POUNDS THIS MONDAY. I AM BEGINNING TO SEE MY SUCCESS ON ME.

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE

It is hard to make changes in our diet and weight. It is easier to quit and find something else to take up our focus. I love Cathy. She is always fighting the scale, she is in the day to day struggle with the rest of us.

To be successful, we have to keep our EYE ON THE PRIZE. What is our prize? Being able to walk without pain, to stop taking high blood pressure medication, look hot in our clothes this summer, the class reunion or the summer wedding.
If we believe our goals are attainable, then we will work harder to succeed.
So fellow dieters, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE. STAY FOCUSED.

TAKING CONTROL OF OUR APPETITE

I am reading a book The End of Overeating" by David A. Kessler, M.D." Weight Watchers makes a fortune with their weight loss program. They know most people who lose weight cannot sustain the weight loss and gain it back. The food industry specificeally and purposefully engineers their products to overeating by placing salt, fat and sugar into their products make their products more than irresistable to eat. Very interesting to read.
You think you are getting freshly cooked foods in Franchise Restaurants, it would make you sick if you knew what they do to food before you eat there. Good Bye Franchise Hello small restaurants.

Its is more than just will power, portion control and group support. Managing our eating behavior depends on our ability to alter automatic responses to food cues and gain conscious control over them.

THE TODDLER MIRACLE DIET

The Toddler's Miracle Diet...
People are always on the lookout for a new diet. The trouble with most diets is that you don't get enough to eat (the starvation diet), you don't get enough variation ( the liquid diet) or you go broke (the all-meat diet). Consequently, people tend to cheat on their diets, or quit after 3 days. Well, now there's the new Toddler Miracle Diet! Over the years you may have noticed that most two years olds are trim. Now the formula to their success is available to all in this new diet. You may want to consult you doctor before embarking on this diet, otherwise, you may be seeing him afterwards. Good luck!

DAY ONE----
Breakfast: One scrambled egg, one piece of toast with grape jelly. Eat 2 bites of egg, using your fingers; dump the rest on the floor. Take 1 bite of toast, then smear the jelly over your face and clothes.

Lunch: Four crayons (any color), a handfull of potato chips, and a glass of milk ( 3 sips only, then spill the rest)

Dinner: A dry stick, two pennies and a nickel, 4 sips of flat Pepsi.

Bedtime snack: Throw a piece of toast on the kitchen floor...........

DAY TWO----
Breakfast: Pick up stale toast from kitchen floor and eat it. Drink half bottle of vanilla extract or one vial of vegetable dye.

Lunch: Half a tube of "Pulsating Pink" lipstick and a handfull of Purina Dog Chow (any flavor). One ice cube, if desired.

Afternoon Snack: Lick an all-day sucker untill sticky, take outside, drop in dirt. Retrieve and continue slurping until it is clean again. Then bring inside and drop on the rug.

Dinner: A rock or an uncooked bean, which should be thrust up your left nostril. Pour grape Kool-Aid over mashed potatoes; eat with a spoon.

DAY THREE----
Breakfast: Two pancakes with plenty of syrup, eat one with fingers, rub in hair. Glass of milk; drink half, stuff other pancake in glass. After breakfast, pick up yesterdays sucker from rug, lick off fuzz, put it on the cushion of your best chair.

Lunch: Three matches, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Spit several bites onto the floor. Pour glass of milk on table and slurp up.

Dinner: Dish of ice cream, handfull of potato chips, some red punch. Try to laugh some punch through nose, if possible.

FINAL DAY----

Breakfast: A quarter tube of toothpaste (any flavor), bit of soap, an olive. Pour a glass of milk over bowl of cornflakes, add half a cup of sugar.. Once cereal is soggy, drink milk and feed cereal to dog.

Lunch: Eat bread crumbs off kitchen floor and dining room carpet. Find that sucker and finish eating it.

Dinner: A glass of spaghetti and chocolate milk. Leave meatball on plate. Stick of mascara for dessert.