Make your emergency snacks a piece of fruit or vegetable.
Processed food or ready-to-eat snacks may have hidden fat and sugar. There is only one solution. Learn how to cook.
Add more fiber to your diet, especially cereal fiber like oat bran.
Consider adding five plain cups of daily green tea to your healthy lifestyle habits.
What you see is what you eat
For most people, the more food they see, the more food they manage to eat.
Make your stored food less visible and hard to get.
Store any high calorie foods in the most difficult-to-reach places in your kitchen.
Use smaller dishes. You may have to buy smaller dishes. Try Oriental markets for smaller sized china.
Store leftovers as single servings.
Throw high calorie leftovers away immediately. Don't even think about it. Just do it.
Learn portion control. Practice by measuring different foods precisely and placing them on different sized dishes.
Keep your vegetable platters and fruit bowls in sight. Train yourself to nibble on very low calorie foods like celery, radishes, jicama strips, red sweet peppers, and baby carrots wrapped in lettuce.
Move more, eat less calories
Take a calorie-free break. Take 15 minutes to read your book, work on a hobby, call a friend, walk outside, take a spa shower.
Turn off TV.
Put on some music and dance.
Put on your pedometer. Set a long term goal of 10,000 steps a day.
Right after dinner or as soon as you reach your calorie limit for the day, go brush your teeth.
Drink a glass of water or a cup of plain green tea when you are hungry. Do the same before you eat a meal.
For anytime support and advice, join an online comprehensive weight loss program like the Biggest Loser Diet Club
When you meet your day's goals, put some money into an annual vacation piggy bank.
Using these weight loss tips at home will be most successful if you understand why you want to be healthy and why you want your whole house to be healthy.
Write down your best reasons for being healthy on a piece of paper so you can review them whenever necessary. Then make a commitment to live healthy every day and enjoy life.
. Set a long term goal of 10,000 steps a day.
