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Tips on maintaining weight loss
By David Birkan
Unless you take active measures all the weight you lost will come back and your new wardrobe won’t fit.
1 Weigh yourself once a week, on the same day and at the same time. For how long? For as long as you want to keep the weight off. That could be for the rest of your life. As soon as you notice a five pound gain, get back into your diet mode. Don’t rely on clothes’ snugness to warn you. Too many ex dieters are walking around with buttons popping and belts cutting them in half. It is very late by then.
2 Stay Active: a jog or walk for a couple of blocks, a few minutes on your exercise equipment, whatever, once in the morning--once in the evening. Don’t overdo it. By itself exercise won’t lose weight for you. Heavy exercise will knock you out and stimulate your appetite.
3 Minimize stress, by deep breathing watching your favorite shows or listening to your favorite music. Get up and walk around the room every so often.
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5 Include bread--whole wheat or black--pasta or long grain rice with that main meal.
6 No seconds. No snacks between meals. If you are diabetic have a candy ready in your pocket to raise blood sugar levels if that is needed.
7 Avoid buffets and All-You-Can-eats. If those are the styles at your social function, have someone else prepare your plate.
8 Don’t be discouraged by an occasional relapse.
You are learning to exercise your self-restraint while building a new body. Expect it to take a few years. You are in it for the long run. Wait until somebodies tells you “Say, you don’t have to worry about your weight, do you?
I bet you’ve been slim all your life.”
David Birkan teaches KARATE for SENIORS at the Betel Centre
Choose one meal to be your main meal. The other two will be much lighter.
Attribution: David Shankbone
Image: Wikimedia Commons
16 SHALOM TORONTO Central edition PASSOVER 2024