"Top 10 Weight Loss Tips"

For permanent weight loss - from http://www.thedietchannel.com/ :

1. Exercise - 10 minutes 3x a day, 5 days out of 7 will do it.
2. Strength training - Muscle burns more calories than fat. "In her book Strong Women Stay Slim, Miriam Nelson, a Tufts University researcher, showed that a group of women who followed a weight loss diet and did weight training exercises lost 44% more fat than those who only followed the diet." (That sounds promising!!)
3. Keep a food/diet diary. (Elder Sister will never do this!!)
4. Make health -  not weight - your motivation. (For me it's both..healthy and skinny sounds good!)
5. Self awareness - know thyself. If you figure out why you overeat you may be able to stop doing it.
6. Join a weight loss group for long-term support. (Do the 3 of us constitue a group?)
7. Portion control - in other words, eat less. Duh.
8. Lose weight slowly - "Strive for a weight loss of no more than 1-2 pounds per week. One pound of weight is equivalent to 3500 calories. By making small changes like eliminating 250 calories a day from food and expending 250 calories a day from exercise, you can lose one pound (of mostly fat) per week. You can calculate how much time you need to exercise to burn 250 calories by clicking here. You can calculate your caloric needs by clicking here, and then subtract 250 from that number."
9. Eat slowly - otherwise your eating will outpace your brain's fullness sensor.
10. East less fat - but don't make up those calories by eating more carbs. Double duh.

 It's so easy to get fat, why is it so hard to get rid of it?

xox,
Susan