Ever do really well all day with your food plan and then snack-eat all the calories you’d saved, and then some, the last few hours of the day? That has to stop if you’re going to lose weight. Here’s a plan for eliminating late night caloric excess. 1. Log food. Log food. Log food. When [...]
Posts Tagged ‘calories’
20 Jun
Should I eat less the day after going off my diet?
Not really. If you’re doing it as weight loss penance, that’s a bad thing to get started, determining the success of your life to date by how well you did yesterday. And if you’re doing it to balance out calories, it’s fine if you went a little over yesterday to balance that out today, but [...]
14 Jun
Weight loss record keeping
In response to an emailed question regarding what record keeping is, minimally, required for weight loss tracking. Really by definition you’d only need some way of noting or remembering your starting and ending weights. But because of the way people are, a little more is in order. You’ll be well served by keeping a weight [...]
17 May
How to get a flatter tummy
Long-time readers already see this one coming. You can’t get a flatter tummy from doing stomach exercises. You can get a more muscular tummy which perhaps enables you to suck it in with greater effect, but that’s not what you’re looking for for a long-term solution, we’re sure. Here’s the lowdown. It’s totally normal for [...]
9 May
Diet soda doesnt raise diabetes risk, after all
Time to pick your spot on this one. Is diet soda great, ok, horrible, carcinogenic? One of the popular threads of conversation is that perhaps it leads to Type II diabetes, but it probably does not. Definitely the sweeteners, in huge quantities, cause health problems. But hopefully you’re not consuming mass quantities. Another popular misconception [...]
30 Apr
How did Kate Middleton lose so much weight?
Reportedly, the Middleton ladies are big fans of the Dukan Diet. Handy little summary at the link. There’s probably enough there to avoid having to pay $12.99 for the book. I have to say, she looked marvelous, and so did her sister Pippa. Prompting Glenn Beck’s crew to make an immediate call for More, More [...]
27 Apr
Cheat Day?
Q: Is it good for me to have one cheat day per week, so I can eat whatever I want? First of all, we need to establish some parameters. If you’re fit, highly active, of a good weight, and you’re just using a cheat day as a way to not go off your plan — [...]
19 Apr
Fitness Gadgetry
I have to confess, I am a geek. I have a geeky job, and when I’m not there I have a statistical consulting practice and a web development consulting practice. All of these involve stuff. Yet my weight loss and success keeping it off is not all that high tech. For part of my weight [...]
16 Apr
Food is not the enemy
Cross-posting a reply I made to an online forum recently, that also came up in coaching calls this week. Sometimes it may feel like food is such an enemy — every bite seems to set us farther from reaching our goals. It’s no true. Food is a great thing, a sustainer of healthy life. [...]
