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I think you have had a great "AAAH HA" moment already. Some people eat to live and others live to eat! Knowing that you have identified your category will help you rethink what and when you eat. You are correct that the calories and portion size sneaks up on us when we do reach for something. Work on "thinking" through…

This takes some pre-planning and thinking ahead for meals each time you shop. Buy a package of chicken when on sale, cook it all and use the broth for soup, pre-package some of the meat into containers and freeze for dinner next week, use some and stir fry it with whatever you have in the veggie drawer over rice for a…

Every fresh food offers some portion of our daily requirements, however: I am sensitive to bananas and do not digest them well. So for me they are bad, bad food. Sometimes these sensitivities run in families, so ask around if you have suspicions about how you feel after you eat certain foods. My sister, daughter, niece and…

Wait until you feel how lose your shoes become because even your feet get thinner!

I always find relief from eating black licorice.....my personal dose is about 5 or 6 jelly beans. I know it sounds looney but it works for me within 30 to 45 minutes! What have you got to lose for trying?

It is great that you are motivated to get this process moving forward for yourself! I would like to ask the exact same questions of you that you have posted: What foods do you eat? How much? What workouts etc? Each of us has different reactions to each of these aspects of metabolism so doing what I do might not work for…

You are looking at the whole forest and getting overwhelmed: start to look for one tree at a time! You are unemployed, you have TIME to move. If the others make fun or chastise you: go into the bathroom and do 10 wall pushups, stretches etc for 3 minutes. Don't let them know you are doing it. Do it several times a day! As…

Your story is one that is repeated time after time across this nation. They gave my mother 4 to 6 weeks to live and she made it an additional 9 months with brain cancer. Her days were spent in a care facility, having become blind by the tumors. At the time I thought it was cruel for her to have to last that long but as the…

I switched to flavored seltzer water when I am in the mood for for something bubbly and I ask for a club soda when I am out in a restaurant that can serve it.

Fruit is a better choice than some items but I check my daily scores to see how much overall sugar I am consuming by eating certain fruits. When looking up the glycemic index watermelon is the highest in sugar and strawberries and blueberries are lower. You can even check out veggies and discover that carrots are higher in…

Planning ahead and time management. I work out what meals I will make and cook heavily over the weekends when I am doing laundry, reading textbooks, writing papers. So a whole chicken becomes dinner, soup and broken out into lunch salad portions before it even gets put away in the frig. Working out is my gift to myself,…

Start with a walking plan, add in up and down the stairs and other areas in your neighborhood that are safe and terrain challenging. Find a friend to go with to keep you focused and motivated. Use one pound or heavier cans from the cupboards for weights when you get really going. You really do not need the expense of gym…

If you have digestive or headache problems I would not do even one bit of splenda. Try eating rice instead of pasta, or if you can afford it try the rice pasta. My belly fat is better and I feel less bloated when I eat no wheat products. My sister lost 40 pounds over a year just by cutting our all wheat based items. Also…

I often bake a whole chicken for Sunday dinner, use that broth to start soup, pick the bones clean and then use that meat for salads at lunch during the week, and usually have leftovers for my husband to have a sandwich or two....and of course the soup is healthy because I put in lots of veggies and spinach, no salt etc.…

It is all about perspective, if you get a pizza get a small or medium. When it arrives, set aside one or two pieces and then wrap up and freeze the rest.! I am not sure what SI is, but can you walk around the outside of your building/residence? Go as far as you can, when you can and see that for the accomplishment that it…

Strategically place "snacks" for you and anyone else who might want to be better at their diet today. Cut up veggies, unsweetened ice tea or seltzer water. If you have a better choice at each phase of the event, you can feel better about your choices at the end of the day. Enjoy the celebration that is why you are all…

Congratulations to BOTH you and your daughter! As parents, it is hard to remember each and every day but we are the MODELS ALWAYS! In what we do, in what we say, in how we treat others: young people are observing and learning our ways. There is no such thing as do as I say, don't do as I do. That never works! Kudos to you…

Consider choosing some fruits that are lower in sugar than others.....berries versus watermelon for example! You can have your fruit and eat it too! It always come down to choices.

As an oil it can be mixed with anything else for flavor and used on fresh salads. You can add it to breakfast shakes, etc. I took the Barleans' brand women essential formula (capsules) for two years as menopause support. With the oil of rosemary and other supports in that formula I cruised through menopause with no big…

Here are somethings that I have switched out in my diet: I eat brown rice bread, rice pasta, rice cakes ( see a pattern here) Each of these items is available in my local, grocery store. The only thing that I have found is that rice pasta does not make good pasta salad, once it is cold the texture is odd. So I make rice…

I wash and cut my fresh tomatoes into chunks, place them in freezer bags and freeze. I then add them to soup all during the winter. Brings in that fresh summer flavor: Yummm! I also just wash and slice my green peppers, story in freezer in same way. Makes onion, pepper and mushroom dishes very flavorful in mid winter.

Several easy ways: check at your local grocery store, see if they carry Ball Brand ( like the jars) bread and butter pickle mix. You take the packet, add vinegar and sugar, bring to boil, pour over cut cucumbers ( spears or slices), pack into jars seal with lids and rings: must be constantly refrigerated, they have not…

I am so old that we had party lines when I was a child, yes you had your own ring tone per family and when you picked up the phone any one of 4 other families could be using the line. First cell phone age 50 and I am proud that I paid for it myself ;0)

Think about some other textures and types of foods and set up a system that you will try one per week. Things like black olives, add a few mushrooms to your pasta dishes, celery and raw carrots with hummus or low fat dip. Work you way up to using peppers and fresh tomato into some dishes. Change is hard so take it slow but…

I would be hungry after eating a granola bar and fruit also! Way too much sugar for me, it makes my blood sugar levels go up and down too quickly. Try eating more protein, even a piece of low fat cheese, cottage cheese snack, etc. might work better?

Enlist as many methods as you need to keep you moving in a positive direction towards your goal. Ask friends to workout with you, post positive messages on every mirror in your home, whatever it takes. My one walking partner went to bed every night for three weeks at 8 PM when she started getting in shape and reworking her…

Rule in my home: wash your hands upon entering the house and BEFORE touching stuff like refrigerator handles, etc. Depending on your line of work or setting, consider changing clothes before sitting on your home furniture, germs and viruses can be brought home and spread that way as well. Last thing to help me be better…

May this be a stark reminder to ALLLL mandated reporters in our society! Not just those in the medical, legal and educational fields, we are all able to report suspician and protect those that are more helpless, the young and the elderly!

One thing that helps me reduce mid section flab is to not eat any wheat based products. When I do I feel sluggish, I get puffy and if I over do it I do gain a little bit. What do I use instead, I eat rice bread, use rice pasta when I can (my husband ate it for three years before even noticing the difference), rice chex…

I find that if I weigh myself everyday I can better assess exactly what food combinations work better for me. For example, I can be 500 calories under my daily goal and gain a half a pound that day. Why? If I eat pasta or heavier on wheat based products. I can be over calories by 300 and lose several tenths of a…