Hi Lana, please join us on the daily diet watch thread. We try different things and share information and laugh a lot!
There are a couple of good tools we've shared - fitday, 3fatchicks, and sparkpeople. They are all dot com sites.
Here's my advice:
1. Start eating clean. Get processed food out of your diet as much as possible. Eat vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and quality protein.
2. Stay away from fast food places.
3. Don't drink sodas of any kind.
4. Avoid the Whites - white flour, white sugar, white rice.
5. The scales are not your friends - judge your health by how your clothes fit. (I know! I know!)
6. Add some strength training to your exercise. You can buy light dumbbells at Target or Walmart. Get a book or find a website that shows how to do some basic strengthening exercises. One good site is stumptious.(com)
Lana, it's a long process and similar in some ways to quitting smoking. You didn't gain the weight overnight and you won't lose it overnight. It's best to think healthy eating rather than diet. Then it becomes a lifestyle change.
Rusty :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/13/2004
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 448
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 12,569
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1568
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 61 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 59 [B]Seconds:[/B] 36
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Quit Meter
$54,735.20
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 646
Hours: 10
Minutes: 27
Seconds: 22
Life Gained
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Quit Meter
5263
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
210,520
Cigarettes Not Smoked
