Happy New Year 2010!
Happy 2010 New Year! It’s time for the annual making of resolutions. What will yours be?
One resolution many make in the New Year is to lose weight. Is that you? If it is, you have lots of company and lots of choices.
Those choices may not always be the best.
There are books about magic formulas, low fat, high fat, low carbohydrate, high protein.
There are magic foods…grapefruit, cabbage soup, berries and chocolate.
I’ve tried a variety in my lifetime.
Cabbage soup….not my favorite.
The worst diet I tried was over 30 years ago. I see it is still around. My friend and I decided to do it together. It was guaranteed to help us lose 10 pounds in 10 days. This is the diet: Lemon juice, pure maple syrup mixed together and a cayenne pepper capsule.
Whenever I got hungry, this is all I would consume.
I lasted the entire 10 days without cheating. On the 10th day, I up-chucked, and it burnt all the way up. I felt cheated because I only lost 5 pounds and for the next 2 months, my friend and I both caught every “bug” that flew by. Not a pleasant experience. It’s still a “Yuck” in my book.
Diets come with hype and lots of scientific sounding mumbo jumbo to show they work. Despite what you read or hear, losing weight is solely based on the difference between calories in and calories out.
There is no “magic formula”, no “magic diet” and no “magic diet food.” There are helps though. Remember calories rule!
Calories in, calories out.
The diet doesn’t have to be weird to work.
The diet should be healthy in the long run, not just for the diet’s duration.
Remember to exercise. It increases lean muscle mass which in turn burns more calories.
Don’t start if you’re not going to finish. It has to become a way of life, otherwise, you go back to your same old habits that got you where you are in the first place.
How did you do over the holidays? The average weight gain is about 5 pounds.
This year I decided to do something different. I drank a CINCH SHAKE twice a day as much as possible. CINCH is a great meal replacement and the best breakfast on the planet. I also took 3 in 1 BOOST to keep my metabolism going.
To my surprise and delight, I did not gain anything and even lost a bit.
When making this year’s resolutions, change your life not just your weight.
