Top Tips For Weight Loss
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. When it comes to losing your spare tire, your "bonus" or whatever you call that extra jiggle, you need more than rice cakes and celery. You need strategies so you can diet smart and not have to diet hard. Use these to get you to your ideal size, healthfully:
1. Automate the process. Strip away thinking about eating that can pull you off track. Eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch and snacks, and only change up your options for dinner.
2. Stop beating yourself up. That's why almost all diets fail. You slip up? Make a YOU turn. In other words, get back on your plan right away.
3. Have a contingency plan. One of the ways you can avoid an all-out-chocolate-fest is to activate your contingency plans. These are the ready-made meals and snacks (nuts, carrots, apples) you can turn to instead of the vending machine or the candy aisle at the quick mart.
4. Eat to stay full, not to hit a specific calorie count. Fill up on the right foods, let your body tell you when you're satisfied and not stuffed, and you shouldn't have to worry much about calories. Can't hear your body? Try this: For a couple weeks, rate your hunger on a scale from 0 ("Feels like I haven't eaten since high school") to 6 (Thanksgiving full) -- 3/4 full is a 3. Ideally, your tank should always be 3/4 full -- that is, satisfied, not hungry and definitely not filled to the brim.
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The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, are authors of "YOU: The Owner's Manual." Want more? See "The Dr. Oz Show" on TV starting Sept. 14 (check local listings). To submit questions, go to www.RealAge.com. (c) 2009 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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