3 Strategies to Choose From For Weight Loss

 I wanted to share 3 great strategies that you can choose from while designing your own weight loss plan.  You don't have to use all (or even any) of these, but they are tactics that have worked for me.

1.  Skip breakfast during the week.

Breakfast is only the most important meal of the day when you are trying to generate profits for a cereal company.  Otherwise, you may be able to cut it out and never even miss it.

I usually skip breakfast during the week, and then we often go out for breakfast on the weekends.  Even then, we try to delay breakfast so it can work more as lunch and then I can have an eating break between that meal and dinner.

 2.  Cut out all snacking.

Snacking between meals keeps your insulin high, which keeps you in fat storage mode. 

Often people advise snacking between meals to stave off hunger, but for most of my clients, hunger has zero to do with when they are eating or how much they are eating, so it's a moot point.

Snacking after dinner is also just junk calories.  You can't possibly be hungry – you just ate what is most likely your biggest meal for the day.  Figure out what is driving this eating.  Is it a habit you can break?  Are you just restless?  If so, can you deal with your restlessness by allowing it or doing a substitute activity, like having tea or doing a craft project?

3. Take half home.

When you do eat out, plan to put half your food in a to go box.  Restaurant portions are ridiculously huge.  You can go, eat half, be satisfied, and have a “free” meal for tomorrow that will still be yummy then.