Are you ready to eat healthier and lose weight for good?

Having trouble getting started?

Try these strategies to jump start your weight loss.

Triggers

Think about the triggers or patterns that lead to your bad eating habits.  Decide how you are going to manage or avoid those triggers.

For example, do you feel a lack of energy every day in the middle of the afternoon?  Do you reach for junk food to try and get you over this slump?

Instead of junk food, try one of these snacks:

• small handful of nuts or seeds
• hand-boiled egg
• small serving of leftover meat, fish, poultry and vegetables

All of these snacks are easy to pack and carry with you.  Nuts and seeds are so portable, you can take them along with you anywhere.

De-stress

Do you use food to calm your nerves?

If food has become an emotional crutch to get you through the rough spots in your day, it's time to learn some strategies to avoid, manage and cope with stress.

Try these stressbusters:

• force yourself to take frequent breaks throughout the day, even when you're in the middle of a project
  • get up, walk around, get a cup of tea or glass of water, stretch, chat with a friend or co-worker
  • sit in a quiet place and breathe deeply for a few minutes until you feel your body relax

• every morning when you wake up, take a few moments to review your schedule for the upcoming day
  • anticipate stresses and plan how you are going to reduce or manage those stressors

• every night when you go to bed, take a few moments to review the day
  • think about how you managed the day's stressors
  • make a note of strategies that worked so you can use them in the future
  • make a note of stressful situations that need improvement and plan how you will handle them in the future

• check in with yourself throughout the day and monitor your stress level
  • be sure to check in with yourself at pre-planned times that you know will be stressful
  • take steps as necessary to reduce or manage stress

• watch for red flags:  the moment the desire hits you to eat junk food, that's a red flag alert
  • red flags = stress
  • as soon as a red flag hits you, stop what you're doing immediately and de-stress

Managing stress with food is a learned pattern that you can change.  Practice coping strategies to respond to stress and you'll lose weight fast!

How to Eat

Did you know that how you eat can be making you fat?

Try these eating strategies to jump start your weight loss:

• serve smaller portions
• use smaller plates
• eat only at the table -- never eat on the run
• eat only when you're hungry
• eat slowly and really enjoy your food
• stop eating when you've had enough - never eat to the point of being stuffed
• always leave some food on your plate

Making a few simple changes in how you eat can jump start your weight loss.  You can do it!

How to Dine Out

Dining out can easily sabotage your weight loss and healthy eating goals.

Try these strategies to enjoy eating occasionally::

• plan ahead
• eat before you go
• fill up on raw veggies
• eat slowly
• leave food on your plate

Plan ahead before you dine out.  Check the restaurant menu online in advance and decide what you are going to order.

Eat before you leave home.  Eat some raw veggies and protein (meat, fish, poultry, eggs) before you go out.  That way, you won't be starving and you'll be able to calmly pick and choose what you want to eat.

At the restaurant or social function, fill up on raw vegetables.  Avoid the fatty, salty, sugary or starchy appetizers and main dishes.

Eat your food slowly and savor the tastes.  Make the social interaction and conversation the main event.

Always make it a habit to leave food on your plate.  Look around you.  That's what thin people do.  Don't feel you have to clean your plate.  Remember:  stop eating when you've had enough.

Bottom line on dining out:

• keep dining out to a minimum
• prepare most of your meals at home
• when you do dine out, review the above strategies and plan ahead 

Eat The Right Stuff

To jump start your weight loss, you've got to eat The Right Stuff.

Here's what to eat to see results fast:

• fresh raw vegetables, greens, herbs
• fresh raw fruit
• whole cuts of meat and poultry
• wild fish and seafood
• free-range eggs
• raw nuts and seeds
• tea, water

Junk Food is Not a Reward

Remember:  processed food including junk food is not a reward.    Processed food is making us fat and sick.  Find other ways to treat yourself.

You Gotta Eat The Right Stuff

To jump start your weight loss and to lose weight permanently, you gotta eat The Right Stuff.

For more info, including easy recipes, order your copy of The Right Stuff Diet today.  Start losing weight tomorrow!