Eating to Lose Weight

It's coming. The dreaded gain weight season - Thanksgiving and Christmas. Start now to save yourself.

Do you eat breakfast? If yes, what do you eat and if no, why not?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day - more important when you are watching your weight is what you eat for breakfast.

A good breakfast will help you eat better all day. But a sugar breakfast will just help you put on the pounds all day long.

Challenge ---- no sugar before noon. The first meal - within an hour of getting up - needs to be one full of protein. No sugar cereal with milk. No sugar and creamer with that coffee or tea. No artificial sweeteners either. Save the fruit for a mid-morning snack.

Remember the good ol' egg. Boil, poach, or even scramble. No bread. You can have some lean meat with that egg.

Now get out there. You are full of energy, clear headed and ready to take on any challenge.

Have you put exercise equipment on your Christmas wish list?

until next time - eat right
Sharon
AnswersForYourHealth.com/Shrink Belly Fat

Watch What You Eat

I decided to follow that advice and watch what I eat.

The first problem I had was that my eyes would cross just about the time the fork got to my mouth. I tried closing one eye and that helped.

Next problem, once the food entered my mouth I could not see it anymore.

The next time I could see a trace of that food -- it was on the outside of my stomach - it was the dreaded fat belly. There must be a better way.

Maybe we need to revise that phrase, maybe it should be look at the food and evaluate where it is going to be used. Honestly accept will it be used or stored. If the choice is between chips and a piece of fruit - you don't have to watch what you eat, you need to choose healthy.

You know that you must eat to keep your metabolism working hard. So eat low calorie - that forces your body to give up the stored energy - stored fat. You don't want to lose what muscle mass you have, so you need protein and exercise. You don't have to run for miles but you do need to do some weight training - not gain weight training---- you know how to do that. You need the weight training that improves muscles strength and mass.

Can you lose belly fat by watching what you eat? You lose belly fat by choosing what you eat.

until next time - eat healthy
Sharon
AnswersForYourHealth.com