I agree with Vicki - progams like Weight Watchers helps you change your eating habits to a life style that you can live with forever. My mother is a Lifetime Member of Weight Watchers - now 82 years old and has maintained her weight for thiry plus years. Because of her - I went to WW when I was pregnant with my now 31 year old son...became a life time member...and have maintained very well.
We do not count like we did; we eat right most of the time because we learned what right was. And we exercise.
Vicki pointed out a major thing - one time...due to too busy of a season of life, I was hardly eating anything and yet could not loose my "holiday" pounds. A friend pointed out that I was not eating enough...I worked on that and the pounds came off. Skipping meals does not help!
My son works with a company that has a dependable product that speeds up metabolism, curbs hunger, increases energy and a bunch of other things. I used it this time around with my holiday pounds - along with the concentration on eating three healthy choice meals and the pounds really came off fast...www.kory.taislim.com in case someone is looking for that kind of help. One of the WW friends in our circle just added it to her WW program and lost like four inches in the first week.
One third whole grain, one third fresh/raw and one third healthy protein. No white flour, sugar - three meals a day - you are on your way to lower weight forever.
J.
www.joyboudreau.com