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5 Diet Plan Saving Tips !

Guilty and frustrated from cheating on your diet plan? These diet plan saving tips will keep you on track!

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It’s nine thirty at night and you have followed your new diet plan perfectly to a tee all day. A pizza advertisement comes on the commercial break of your favorite show and you notice it is close to your next mealtime.
Up to the kitchen you go to eat your next meal. When in the fridge pulling out your nicelyprepared diet plan meal, you notice some left over Fettuccini Alfredo your wife or roommate brought home. Sure looks good you think as you catch a little bit of saliva about to drip on your shirt!

“Just a little taste won’t hurt my diet plan,” you justify…

“ I’ve stuck to my diet plan all day……”

A little taste and before you know it you tell yourself the extra carbs and calories will be a good boost to your workout tomorrow!

An hour later your gut is stretching and Indigestion plagues you from cheating on your diet plan!!

“I should have stuck to my diet plan!” is going through your head as you lay down to have nightmares of a fat ass! “Tomorrow I’ll stick to my diet plan “, you chant in your head!But you fall from your diet plan only a day or two later!

The occasional stray from your diet plan can really add up!And billboards,tv’s, radios and people are everywhere pushing fast foods and junk to sabotage your diet plan!

Here are five diet plan saving tips to arm yourself against the onslaught of the Cheating War!

Diet Plan Tip #1 – Eat Slowly – Take your time when you sit down to eat.

The chances you will stuff yourself or overeat diminish and you will reach the point of satiety much more quickly if you eat slowly!

The more you are satisfied with what you have eaten the less likely you will continue to think of food. That chocolate Black Forest cake won’t be as tempting either!

Diet Plan Tip #2 – Have Delicious Meals That Fit Your Meal Plan Prepared Ahead Of Time.

Having meals prepared ahead of time makes it convenient to eat according to a plan and on schedule.

You can make it more convenient to stick to your diet plan than it is to eat that bag of candy by having your diet plan meals prepared and available when it is time to eat– and when you gethungry.

Diet Plan Tip #3 – Get Used To Eating For Your Purpose Instead Of For Your Taste Buds.

Satisfying your taste buds when you get the urge to gorge down a Big Mac will never develop a healthy, lean, muscular physique! Keep in mind you are eating to develop a lean, healthy muscular physique every time you open your mouth! The temporary taste satisfaction of a jelly-filled donut will be gone real fast but the empty calories you just devoured can defeat a whole day’s worth of bodybuilding effort!

Diet Plan Tip #4 – Be creative with your cooking to make sticking to your diet enjoyable.

Ideally, with proper preparation and some reciperesearch you can create delicious mouth watering meals that meet your diet plan criteria. Learn to cook. Employ spices from other parts of the world. India and China are twocountries with interesting choices to really spice up your diet plan. When you don’t have to force feed yourself with your nose plugged the chances are much higher you can stick to your diet plan more easily!

Diet Plan Tip #5 – Drink Water.

Drinking water between meals can help to reduce your hunger pains temporarily by giving a sense of fullness. For those of you that sabotage your diet plan munching here and there,keeping a water bottle with you wherever you go can really help.Just sip away when its oral satisfaction rather than hunger driving you.

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Do You Have A Pinocchio Nose?

Title: Do You Have A Pinocchio Nose?
Author: Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW
E-mail: mailto:editor@overcoming-depression.com
Copyright: by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW
Web Address: http://www.Overcoming-Depression.com
Word Count: 764
Category: Peak Success

DO YOU HAVE A PINOCCHIO NOSE?

Ever try to make a powerful personal change, only to have a voice inside your head sabotage you, make you feel in-authentic and attempt to convince you that you aren’t capable of your goal?

I call this the “Dark Inner Pinocchio,” not the cute and lovable Pinnocchio we’ve seen on the VCR. No, this guy is dark all right. His whole negative approach is the key to his own survivial. And his nose!! It’s got to be so long that it’s pushing against a vital body part somewhere!

I’m on my ‘weigh’ back from a big weight gain. Sound familiar? For months I tried this-and-that thing with no success, until I found the secret. Of course, I’d taught the secret so many times to my clients (I’m being humble here), but had failed to figure out that this same power-technique could be applied to my own weight loss. I had to wholeheartedly BELIEVE that my natural weight is 180 pounds. In fact, I had to get out pictures of me as far back as high school, all the way up to a couple of years ago. I studied my facial structure, my body type, my bone structure etc. The results confirmed that my ‘natural’ weight should be 180 pounds. I could ‘see’ myself at that natural and healthy weight. I beleived it!

I implemented my plan and began my quest, but it was uninteresting because it wasn’t any different than the things I’d tried before. The tickle-me part is I have gone from 255 pounds down to 210 pounds and that’s with gaining approximately 6 pounds of muscle in the process.

What was the difference? Before, Dark Pinocchio had me convinced I was meant to be a fat, out of shape person. I shut him up with ‘THE TRUTH.’ Can you envision me bending his long nose around and jamming it into his mouth? ;-) I’m a peaceful man, but this Dark Pinocchio guy is threatening my life with pounds of fat,
literally! How is he threatening your life?

I am still in the process of reclaiming the truth about who I am physically. As part of this journey I’ve decided to journal. Good thing I did too, because that’s where I caught this Dark Pinocchio in action. As I would sit in the morning journaling about my previous day I would notice moments where I felt suddenly doubtful about what I was doing or saying.

For example, my brother came by as I was doing weight training in my workout room here at the house. That’s a fancy way of saying I was working out in the garage ;-) Anyway, he’s been working hard to shed the pounds too and doing so with a membership at the YMCA. He had just finished a workout and was bummed after getting on the scales and not seeing what he wanted to see.

He asked for my opinion (I know… that’s dangerous with family!) and I began inquiring about what he ‘truly believed’ was his natural weight. I was getting fired up. Can you almost see me?
There I was with my lifting gloves on, sweat running off my back and all fired up. I went on to talk with him about how I had begun this time. Suddenly, I felt a strange feeling in my gut. I call that a “felt-sense.” Any guesses who it was?

Dark Pinocchio showed up. He was saying things like, “You’re a hippocrite! Your weight loss won’t last and then you’ll look foolish for saying things like this. Don’t you know you are a FAT MAN!”

Quite frankly it stunned me, although my brother didn’t pick up on it. Later I sat down with some pictures, including those I’ve burned into my brain of my natural body and allowed myself to “feel” what it feels like to be at a natural and healthy physical state.

That was yesterday. I feel much more calm and confident today. And, you know what? I will continue to tell others how I am doing this weight loss thing and if Dark Pinocchio wants a piece of me… here I am!

To your success!

Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW

P.S. You may believe this blog was about weight loss. Maybe you’ll use it this way. That’s okay. But it’s about something much more deep and powerful – The Dark Pinocchio in all of us. Unfortunately, I’ve met very few people who did not have this liar in their head. Defeat Dark Pinocchio and you’ll change a whole lot more than just your weight!

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Tips on How to Lose Weight Without Exercise

Have you wondered why people are able to shed the fat so rapidly and dropped a few jean sizes in a matter of weeks but when it comes to trying out yourself, it was just another disappointment? Don’t worry, give yourself another chance and you’ll be able to see a new figure in weeks. For people with busy lifestyle, think weight loss without strength training.

Would you like to lose weight without all the hard work and sweating? The answer is simple – eat only healthy food and avoid sugary products. Once you adopt this simple change in your eating habits, you’ll see drastic changes in your body figure.

Without going further, let’s see some of the real life testimonials posted by the users as listed below.

1. “Keep fruit around so when you get the munchies eat some fruit instead of junk food, I know someone who lost 50lbs by doing that”

2. “Cut down on carbs and sugar. Cut your calories and carbs and you will lose weight. A pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Cut 3500 calories from your diet lose a pound, it’s simple.”

3. “Drink lots. 8-10 Glasses of water a day, and, instead of 3 big meals a day, try 4-5 small meals a day.”

Motivation from real user’s feedback is the key to follow their footsteps. The above feedback is enough to make a life changing decision to make you lose weight with healthy diet. Although without exercise it is not perfect, but this article is talking about healthy diet to lose weight. Let’s put aside exercise routine, if you eat correctly healthy diet contributes at least more than 50 percent of successful weight loss.

After reviewing most of them, I’ve concluded that the only way is to lose weight with NO exercise is through dietary changes alone.

However, without good knowledge of food nutrition and various kinds of healthy diets we are putting our health at stake because most of the people will adopt very low calorie diet as their default weight loss plan.

Forget about very low calorie diet for long-term weight loss. It is not your savior and it puts your health at stake.

On the contrary, I would like to recommend Calorie Shifting Diet as the best weight loss eating plan without failing your body’s metabolism. In fact, it has been the main weight loss diet plan for many obese people.

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