Dieting Tips and Thoughts

When you make a commitment to lose some weight and go through the course of a successful HCG diet, there can be many positive results. Yes, you may be depriving yourself of food, but I’ll say that oftentimes it may be food you don’t need anyway (at least that was the case for me).

It’s kind of a matter of asking the question, “Do I want to be healthy and fit, or do I want to eat garbage and be a slug?”

So, what kind of benefits might you see?

A positive result, and the objective for most dieters, is to lose some excess pounds of weight.

In the process of successfully doing that, you’re going to get the added benefit of refocusing away from unhealthy foods, and moving towards eating healthy foods and reestablishing your personal healthy eating patterns.

Let’s face facts, we don’t usually find ourselves in a position where we’re saying, “I need to lose twenty five pounds,” because we super-sized a few too many dishes of lettuce.

The math is simple.

Too many calories in, and too few calories expended out in an average day.

Yes, I know, there’s no justice in the world– some skinny people seem to defy that law, or have less of an appetite… sigh. Alas!

But, anyway, I digress….. LOL!

Back to the subject.

Once we accept the fact of being a bit over our ideal weight, and being in need of a period of dieting, it’s also time to accept the fact that maybe we got into this position because of less than optimal food consumption patterns (aka poor eating habits).

Time to change that.

Focusing on, and creating a track record of, a healthy eating style becomes that additional, unanticipated positive result. They say nothing creates success like success does.

That’s so true.

What we’re talking about is creating a new healthy habit to replace an older unhealthy one.

So, a good tip is to view your diet plan that way. Recognize that you are in the process of new habit formation, and enjoy the journey.

Slow down as you eat.

Savor the food permitted on the HCG weight loss food menu.

Maybe you’re thinking, “creating a new habit, that sounds tough. I’ve been eating just about the same way for a very long time. How can I turn that around all at once?”

The answer is, you do it in small steps, a little bit at a time.

When you’re dieting you measure progress a pound, a half pound, a quarter pound, or an ounce at a time.

The same thing applies to creating a healthy eating pattern.

Look at, acknowledge and reward small successes (not with food).

Many small successes combined, over time yield substantial victories.

So, if you focus on the small changes and you repeat them over time, you establish a pattern of healthy positive behaviors and that, repeated over time, becomes an ingrained habit.

Here are a few tip ideas, small changes that can reduce caloric intake.

Institute them, even just one at a time.

Sustain them over time and acknowledge your success to yourself.

Congratulate yourself when you notice that you’ve institutes these and other changes:

For maintaining your weight even after the diet and strict maintenance phase, try these tricks:

- Switch to 0% fat milk, and drink only half your usual amount.

- Switch to artificial sweetener instead of sugar.

- Drink more water. It really does help you lose weight.

- Skip day-dreaming about the doughnut or cookie with your beverage, just for today.

- Eat an apple before dinner, and take larger servings of healthy vegetables.

- Don’t eat anything after dinner, just for today.

Small changes, practiced over time and reinforced, become new healthy habits.  This will help prevent you from regaining the progress you made on the HCG diet.