Lose Weight Fast with Common Sense Diet by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP

Common Sense Diet: Eating for Weight Loss

Curiously most people will stick religiously to the servings guidelines when eating something like oatmeal, rice, or their half cup of broccoli, yet when they eat chips, crackers, cookies and ice cream they have as much as they want. It makes more sense to eat all you want of the vegetables and fruit snacks and limit the processed food treats though. If you want permanent weight loss try the Common Sense Diet.

Eat As Much As you Want of Real Foods

Consider having as much "real" food as it takes to satisfy, then limit the processed foods. Eating double the ingredients in your sandwich is still better than having half a sandwich and a whole bag of greasy chips. If you look at the box for hot cereal, it suggests a pretty small serving size. Just ignore it. Fix as many "servings" as you want, then eat a nice big bowl of hot cereal. I usually cook enough for four and split it between two of us. Am I as big as a barn? Hardly. But half that amount of cereal would not satisfy me and I'd be looking for something else to eat pretty quickly. Eating plenty in the first place makes much more sense and I'm generally satisfied for several hours.

So what if I eat more than the recommended serving size? The suggested servings have nothing to do with you and everything to do with what the manufacturer wanted to list as "calories per serving," or to be able to make a claim of "less than 2 net carbs," both of which are essentially meaningless. What matters is how much food will you need to be satisfied? It makes little sense for a 130 pound woman to be served and to eat the same amount as a 200 pound man.

I eat as much as it takes to satisfy my hunger, and then no more. That doesn't mean I eat until I'm stuffed so full I'll be ill, or I have to lie down, it means I'm satisfied. I get busy and forget all about eating when I'm well fed.

If you're following a pre-prescribed eating plan and you still want more to eat, it's unlikely you'll stay with that plan for long. Everyone of us is unique in our food requirements, so following a prescribed diet plan may just need to be modified to better suit you. It's okay to add another half cup of vegetables and it could make the difference between success and failure in your dieting efforts.

Add an apple or other piece of fruit a couple times during the day to get you over those hungry times. Most fruit has less than 100 calories in a piece. You can get 100 calories eating a piece of candy, but of the two which is going to satisfy you the longest? I'd suspect real food would.

I like a certain brand of sandwich from the health food store. At first I would eat a whole sandwich, then one day it struck me that maybe half would be enough, so I tried and what do you know, half a sandwich was plenty. Now I always eat a half and save the rest for the next day. Is this a breakthrough? For me it was because before I would use my eye to judge what I needed to eat (Mom used to tell me, "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach," and I guess she was right!). These sandwiches I'm referring to are big, and they are filling. They contain healthy but oddball ingredients you may not have thought would be good in a sandwich like shredded carrots and cabbage. They require substantial chewing, and they are very nourishing and satisfying. That's what you want from a sandwich, right?

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~~ Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP, EFT coach and author of Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight Loss lost 80 pounds over 17 years ago. Learn how she lost the weight and maintains that weight loss at http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

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