How To Lose Weight For Your New Years Resolution

By Trevor John

If only weight was as easy to lose as it was to gain!

Trouble is, it’s all too easy to eat more than you should.

The thought of diets brings instant misery:

Lettuce

Salad with no dressing

Burgers without the bun or the relish or the fries or the cola

Smaller portion sizes (the kind a 5 year old kid would think was small)

Snacks and chocolate banned

Boring, tasteless food

If your New Years Resolution is to lose weight, chances are the list above will be crossing your mind. But your scales and your waistline are telling you otherwise. You don’t want to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe either.

The trouble with diets is we don’t stick to them. The “other people’s” food always looks tastier and more tempting.

This is going to sound odd but I want you to throw your diet books away!

It’s true, diets don’t work (unless you’re the person selling the diet food).

It’s time to rethink what you eat.

Instead of “just eating”. On autopilot. Eating everything in front of you as if it’s a race.

That’s what needs to stop!

Put your cutlery down between each mouthful of food.

If you’re in a fast food restaurant and not using cutlery, put your food down between each mouthful.

Chew your food (just like mom told you!).

Taste your food. Go on, actually notice the flavors of the food you are eating! You’ll likely enjoy the experience. Notice the seasoning. Notice the way the different flavors and textures work with each other.

Keep eating consciously until your stomach tells you that you are full. Then stop eating until you are hungry again.

Regular meal times are all well and good providing you’re hungry when they arrive. If you’re not hungry, you’re just eating for the sake of it.

Don’t do that!

Eat when you are hungry. Stop when you are full. Your body is a much better indicator of this than any of those diet books I told you to throw away. Listen to your body for a change.

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