Weight Loss Ebook

Weight Loss

If you're a woman with a normal (meaning fairly sedentary) American lifestyle, you can maintain your weight with about 1800 calories a day. Any more calories than that, and you gain weight, any fewer calories and you'll lose weight. This is the basic information that makes any diet work (or not).

Your Milky Way is, therefore, about 1/6th of your daily caloric needs. More importantly, one Milky Way and one Hershey's bar a day will add a pound a week to your butt, unless you reduce the calories you get from real food by the same amount. If you just eat one candy bar a day and don't cut back on real food, it will take you two weeks to gain a pound. But don't worry - you will gain weight.

One Costco giant muffin can add up to more than 600 calories - three muffins a day would give you enough calories to maintain your weight, while clogging your arteries from all that fat..

Imagine it - the three muffins would maintain your weight if you ate absolutely nothing else. Fat chance!

Is it any wonder that fewer and fewer people can crowd into an American elevator?

Few people eat a candy bar or a poppy seed muffin or a piece of chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream instead of real food. We eat these things in addition to real food.

Which is good, in a way, because these sugary "food" items contain almost no nutritional value. You can survive, for a while, on a diet made up almost entirely of simple carbs. Many people through the centuries have had to do just that during times of war or famine. But this type of diet will severely damage your long-term health.

( I have had emails from readers who say (often in all caps) that they can't give up sugar and white flour because there wouldn't be anything else to eat! I always suggest that these folks need to make an immediate appointment with their doctor - they're living on borrowed time.)

Here's just some of the things you'll be able to do with the skills you learn from Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment:

• You'll easily say "no thanks" to fattening food, without having to struggle with your cravings.
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• You'll eat nutritious food without feeling deprived, and without obsessing about the fattening food you chose not to eat.
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• You'll receive the compliments of family and coworkers, who will wonder what "secret" diet you're on. (When you tell them what you've learned, they won't believe you.)
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• You'll cart your old "fat clothes" to the Goodwill Store. You won't bother hiding them in the back of the closet, "just in case you need them again." You know you won't.
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• You'll feel better about yourself, because you can look in the mirror and know you're achieving your goals, against all the odds.
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• You'll discover that you have more creativity and mental energy, now that you aren't constantly fighting a losing battle with your cravings.
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• You may even be able to teach my simple techniques to your coworkers and family, so they, too, can become thinner, happier, and healthier.

My book Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment teaches you the specific mental skills you need in order to rise above your addictive cravings for sugar and fat. You will learn exactly what it takes to stay conscious and committed to any nutritious eating plan you choose.

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