When you're trying to lose fat, it's important to eat the right, healthy foods so you're not building up the fat at the same time you're trying to burn it. If this happens, you will get NOWHERE. Now, I'm not going to lie to you and say this dieting will be easy for you if you're like me and love anything that's deep-fried and unhealthy (like cake frosting, french fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, fair food, etc.), because this diet will be really hard to follow. But if you have a goal in your head, nothing is impossible--unless you don't believe in mind over matter. Mind over matter is the key to this dieting plan--and so is self discipline. As an expieriment to find out how much self-discipline you have, watch your friends and family eating something really tasty, like your favorite fattening food, and see how long you hold out. If you even had one bite of that food just because you smelled it or saw it, this plan won't work for you, so don't waste any more of your time on it. If you do succeed in your first dieting mission, congradulations! I think you're ready to take dieting alittle more seriously. All this dieting talk might be making you alittle edgy, but I assure you, it's nothing you can't handle. It's not like you're starving yourself to death, so just relax. The first step to your dieting is preparing. Make sure you know what you're doing. Don't starve yourself and follow the exact instructions on the diet you have. You might want to go to a dieting doctor if you aren't reassured yet. Doing some research might help you to relax, too, and help you realize that this isn't such a big deal. The second step is to find out what it is you're eating too much of. Now, let's really get into talking about losing some weight. Your diet all depends on YOU. You naturally need alittle bit of fat to survive, but too much of the wrong kind of fat can result in pudge. The first step in finding the diet that is right for you is to observe all the food you eat for one day. Record your day's meals and snacks and compare your record to the good pyramid guide. Which food group are you eating too much of? Whatever that group is, you need to cut down on the food you eat from it. For example, if you observe your day's meals recording, and you notice you are eating alot of grain, cut back on it. The grain group is really tricky--there are lots of kinds of grains and breads, but the worst kind you can eat is white bread. It has lots of preservatives and is bleached to make it white. The best kind of bread you can eat is whole-grain. It has alot of seeds in it and it's the most natural kind there is. You really can't get fat from eating too many vegetables or fruits, so now the other main cause of fat is the fats & oils group. Fats and oils are needed for your body to survive--but too much of it is bad. Resolve to having about 3 tsp. of fat a day, used only in butter and maybe olive oil for cooking certain foods in. The second step in your dieting plan is to change what you eat. If you were eating too much grains and white-flour foods (like white bread, pasta, saltine crackers, etc.) then resolve to eating only have that amount of the grain group each day, and change the white flour products to whole-grain. Get multi-grain flaxeed bread instead of white bread, and whole- grain crackers instead of those white flour crackers. Now you're getting somewhere!!! But be careful while you're on this diet that you don't start overeating in any other areas of the food pyramid to satisfy to craving of the food you're dieting off of. Remember, Pride comes before the fall, so don't get too confident in your dieting abilities. It's important to stay on this diet of eating half your normal quantity of the food you overeat most on for atleast 2 weeks so you don't fall back into the same old pattern of over eating. Step three to your dieting plan is to see the results! You probably have gotten lighter over the past two weeks and you've gotten more confident in yourself about being able to control your diet. It's mind over matter, so if you tell yourself you can do it, you can!
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