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| Date | Fit Tips |
| 7/13/2010 |
One more way to keep yourself motivated during your weight loss journey is to "do the write thing". Studies have shown that writing down your weight loss goals reinforces them in your mind!
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| 5/17/2010 |
Another "Stick with it strategy" is to use the word "want" instead of "should". Saying you "should" do something, like exercise implies that you feel the activity is a burden. Michael Sachs, Ph.D., an exercise psychology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia says, "By telling yourself that you "want" to work out today, you will get in the right mind-set to go to the gym!"
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| 5/3/2010 |
Stick with it strategies: Start small! Aim to make 1 tweak a day!, add a new fruit to breakfast, skip your before dinner cocktail, take a walk after lunch, do what ever you can do to nudge your weight down. Once you add the small changes it will be easier to add the more ambitious and challenging behaviors as time goes on!
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| 3/22/2010 |
A healthy habit is to start wearing a pedometer. It can actually prompt you to be more active. To maximize your results, set goals and track your progress. Start by shooting for 2000 steps per day working up to 10,000.
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| 3/15/2010 |
How to burn more calories? YOUR WEIGHT divided by 2=how many calories you use for every mile you walk at a moderate pace, says University of Tennessee researcher David Bassett, PhD. Walking at a brisk pace (over 4 MPH) results in an even bigger burn.
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| 3/8/2010 |
Lose 100 calories at dinner. Making meatballs, mix half the amount of ground beef the recipe calls for with half as much cooked brown rice.
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| 3/1/2010 |
Another tip to lose 100 calories at lunch or supper is to use 1 tablespoon of salad dressing on your salad, toss it until every leaf is coated. You will get away with using half the usual serving size.
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| 2/15/2010 |
Save 100 calories at lunch by using 1 tablespoon mayonaise and 1 tablespoon of low-fat cottage cheese to make tuna salad! The cottage cheese adds even more protein to the tuna, another way to cut hunger. Remember PROTEIN FIRST!
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| 2/8/2010 |
Cut 100 calories a day from your diet. At breakfast simply use nonfat milk in place of flavored non-dairy creamer in your two morning mugs! Check out Ellis Hospital Bariatric Face Book page for more "Lose 100 calories a day!" ideas!
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| 2/1/2010 |
Nearly 65% of all Americans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese. This costs the United States billions of dollars in health care costs. If each of us cut 100 calories a day from our diets, the number of overweight or obese people would be reduced by 71 million. Just by taking this simple step, health care costs could be lowered by $58 billion. For tips on how to lose those 100 calories from your diet, check out our weekly "Fit Tips" on this site!
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