Weight Loss Tips and Information.

Let me just do a quick summary so you know where I am coming from.

I was involved professionally with 2 weight reduction organizations after losing over 100 pounds; one from 1967-1975 and Our Weigh 1975-1979 and was very successful in helping people lose weight and motivating them.

I have been fighting fat for 60 years of my life, sometimes losing but mostly winning the past 41 years and, trust me, at 72 it isn’t any easier.

I’m a hard taskmaster when YOU tell me you want to lose weight and won’t accept any excuses for not doing what you should do and what you say you want to do. I’m patient at the start but lose my cool after a few weeks if I feel you are not serious.

What I want to do here is just relate some things I have learned and/or observed along the way.

LESSON NUMBER ONE! Calories DO count. I don’t care what diet you are or have been on it is the amount of calories you take in and expand that will determine whether you lose weight or not. All diets are based on calorie counting whether you weigh or measure or count points or whatever it is called.

I have been on every diet you can imagine and lost weight on all of them-including the ice cream diet-and none will work if you don’t learn how to handle your demon foods.

The bottom line is that if I eat less than 2,000 calories a day, whether I exercise or not, I will lose weight.

THE most important tool in losing weight is keeping a food diary-writing down EVERYTHING you eat-even when you go off the diet. can’t be bothered writing down what and how much you are eating? Then, obviously, you DON’T want to lose weight!

IF you keep your weight off for 5 or more years you will not regain it all if you do gain weight again.

Yes, it’s semantics BUT it is an attitude. You don’t want to lose weight-when you lose something you want to find it (and you usually do)-you want to get rid of weight.

It makes no difference when you consume your calories-yes, even eating before you go to sleep-it is the total amount of calories you take in within a 24 hour period! (I am living proof of that-I do the majority of my eating at night.)

The best, safest weight loss will be an average of 1-1 and 1/2 pounds a week.

It is harder to keep the weight off then to take it off.

Weigh only ONCE a week-the same day, same time, same scale. At the same time take your measurements-women, especially, will have weeks where they lose inches instead of pounds.

How long have you been