| A long time ago I learned a couple of weightloss ideas | | | | With all that food, you can spare a few cookies or a |
| to help you kill a bad habit. It works to eliminate your | | | | muffin. Toss it out. |
| attachment to something, as you'll see below. | | | | And don't buy another one to take its place right now. I |
| Some quick background. I grew up dieting. When I was | | | | know all about forbidden foods. I was on Sugar |
| about 10, I started putting on weight, and my mom | | | | Busters for two years, and the second half of that |
| started putting me on diets. Awful right? At least she | | | | included a lot of cheating. By the way, in Sugar |
| went on them, too. | | | | Busters, you quit eating white sugar and white flour. Its |
| So I have spent many years with this ingrained idea | | | | a lot like South Beach. |
| that food is fun, and no food is no fun. One of the | | | | This method of giving up ingredients creates a ton of |
| weightloss ideas I learned as a teenager came back | | | | forbidden foods. I decided, after quitting in frustration |
| to me recently, about this habit of eating for fun. | | | | and gaining the weight back, all 35 pounds, that |
| Go buy your favorite food or snack, whether you eat | | | | forbidden foods wouldn't work for me. If it does for |
| it now or not. Get a cookie, a big muffin, a double | | | | you, congratulations, and stay with it. |
| sugar latte, or some Ben and Jerry's. Once you have it, | | | | I decided my weight loss would have to come by |
| you can either take a bite, or not, and skip ahead. | | | | prudently eating all kinds of foods in the right quantities. |
| When I say take a bite, I mean it. If you eat any, eat | | | | And so, throwing out some of it helps to keep me |
| only a small amount. Next, toss it out. Yes, throw it | | | | focused. If I want more, I can have it tomorrow or the |
| away, whether you ate any or not. You want to | | | | next day. |
| change the idea in you that you have to finish that item | | | | Give these weightloss ideas a try. Go get that double |
| or save it. You can get more. | | | | scoop of rocky road and mint chocolate chip ice |
| Some more weightloss ideas to help you with this: | | | | cream on a sugar cone. Take a bite of each, and |
| Picture all the food you will ever and have ever eaten | | | | chuck it. You can handle it. And always know you can |
| all in one place. Not easy, right? It would be a mountain | | | | get another one tomorrow, and eat or throw it away. |
| of food. Just the turkey will make a huge pile for me. | | | | You are in control. |