Size does matter!

I was talking with my wife this morning about how great she is doing with her weight loss. Her weight had been static for a few weeks but she just dropped another couple of pounds. She was telling me how she felt that she hadn’t lost much weight. It got me thinking about the way 90 percent of people gauge how well they are doing weight-wise — the scale!

The truth is if you are exchanging fat for muscle, you won’t see a change in your weight. In fact, it may even go up — and yet you are still getting healthier. So why do we keep track of just our weight, something I am guilty of myself?

Carbohydrates are not your enemy

So this week I lost another 2 pounds. For those who are keeping track, I weighed in at 278 pounds on Monday. So after another successful week I started to reflect on what my food intake had been like the last few weeks. The answer may come as a surprise to some people, because although I had stuck with fairly low fat food, I had consumed plenty of carbohydrates as well. Recently with diets like South Beach and Atkins, carbohydrates have been given a pretty bad name, but I’m here to say that carbohydrates are not your enemy, at least complex carbohydrates aren’t!

Can Paul McKenna Make Me Thin?

If I had to say what my two biggest enemies to losing weight are I would probably say emotional eating and carbohydrate cravings. Now that my attempt to lose 100 pounds in 1 year appears to have stalled I have decided it’s time to do something about it — the question is what?

As I am originally from England, Paul McKenna is a familiar face on television to me. I remember watching his hypnosis show during my formative years. So when I saw that his award winning series, “I Can Make You Thin” had made it over here, I decided I had to watch. As part of the series he demonstrates a technique for controlling cravings and a technique for controlling emotional eating.

Weight Loss Tip: How to Predict Your Weight Loss

Did you know that if you ate 3,500 fewer calories than the calories needed to maintain your weight you would lose one pound? So over the course of a week if you ate 500 calories fewer each day, you would lose a pound a week.

Ah, but how do you know how many calories you would have to consume to maintain your current weight? That’s simple, head on over to Calorie Control Council’s website, and use their handy calculator for men or their calculator for women to figure it out.

Weight Loss Tip: Avoid Using The Word Diet

di·et 1 a: food and drink regularly provided or consumed b: habitual nourishment c: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d: a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one’s weight <going on a diet>

Doesn’t that definition sound like by “going on a diet” you are essentially starving yourself? Given a choice between starvation or replacing unhealthy food with healthy alternatives and eating enough that you never felt hungry which would you choose?