Why do you want to change your eating habits? Is it due to obesity; a chronic or life threatening disease; a general feeling of fatigue and low energy or hopefully you want to prevent disease?

• Get started by keeping track of your eating patterns and exercise for the first few weeks. Often you may think you’re eating controlled but the scale won’t reflect the results. You could be mindlessly eating. Remember, all calories count.
• Look at your typical shopping habits as well as your pantry, refrigerator and freezer. Read the labels and toss out those foods you know have excess fat, sugar and calories. Think of shopping now as if you have lost 20 lbs. and have to buy a new wardrobe! Start shopping differently.
• Set short term goals. Try losing five pounds initially rather than long term goals of losing 30 lbs. Once you reach the first goal, maintain that for a week or so then set up the next five pounds. Remember that each plateau reached is one you have to maintain for life.
• Share your goals with others around you. Don’t let peer or family pressure change what you’re doing. When you succeed they will soon be asking you for advice.
• Don’t deprive yourself, but listen to your body. You should never let yourself get hungry. Eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day to avoid hunger. Never go longer than 3 hours without fueling yourself. Every day I treat myself to a small 100 calorie treat.
• Realize that whatever you do to achieve optimum health, is not a temporary thing. Select the method that you can see yourself doing for life. That’s the reason extreme deprivation diets always fail.
• This process is the “magic bullet” to a healthy body weight and feeling great.

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