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Eating Habits And Foods Help You Lose Weight

1. Be cautious of how many calories you are drinking in a day.
Many of us drink a cup of coffee with cream, a soda and perhaps
some juice. We can be drinking 300 calories or more a day.
Replace this will calorie free drinks like water, diet soda, or
crystal light. Carry a water bottle around so that when you are
thirsty you can reach to it instead of something high in
calories.

2. Plan your meals When we don't take the time to plan what we
are eating, and eat what is convenient we sabotage our weight
goals. Take a some time one evening a week planning, shopping
for and preparing meals for the upcoming week. If you don't have
to rely on fast food and last minute decisions you will be able
to eat much healthier.

3. Eat five small meals a day. Eating five small meals a day
instead of three, and then snacking all the time too helps to
keep our metabolism up so that we can burn more calories a day.

4. Eat breakfast. The sooner you eat, the sooner your
metabolism will get going. Though you may think skipping
breakfast is cutting calories and will help you loose weight it
actually slows down your metabolism. Your body thinks it is
starving, unaware of when the next meal might be it starts
storing fat.

5. Remove one problem food. We all have our vices. If you find
that cutting out all snacks and treats is too hard just cut out
one. Find the one that you eat the most. Perhaps it is ice cream
each evening, regular soda, cookies, chocolate, one thing that
is adding a lot of calories and take it out. You may not have
the will power to say no to everything delicious, but you can
say no to just one item. This alone may cut a few hundred
calories a week. You can also do the opposite and only allow
yourself one splurge item. Say no to everything tempting, but
pick one thing you can't live without. If eat healthy all week,
treat yourself you your favorite thing at the end of the week.

6. Stop Mindless Eating. Finishing your kids sandwiches,
munching on candy from the candy dish at work, samples from the
grocery store. These things add up. Just stick to what you have
planned for the day. Just because it is there, or offered
doesn't mean you have to eat it.

7. Chew sugar free gum. Not only does gum prevent you from
snacking because you already have something in your mouth. Some
say you can actually loose a few pounds a year just because of
the calories you burn while chewing.

8. Change your milk. If you are drinking whole or 2% milk
switch to 1% or skim. If you usually only use milk on cereal you
will hardly even notice a different, and you will save some
money as well.

9. Change your salad dressing. If you are smothering your
veggies in full of fat ranch, your veggies are doing you more
harm than good. Switch to a light vinaigrette or fat free
dressing.

10. Add fiber to your diet. You can buy an inexpensive fiber
mix drink at your local grocery or drug store. They even have
tasteless ones that can be dissolved into food now. It will help
you feel less hungry and has advantages to help you digest and
process food better to help you loose weight.