| Title: | Weight Loss and Maintenance |
| Notice: | **PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)! |
| Moderator: | ASICS::LESLIE |
| Created: | Mon Jul 09 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 933 |
| Total number of notes: | 9931 |
Eating what you want should not be a problem as long as you plan
for it.
If you want to eat a large dinner then bank your calories and do a
little extra exercise. You should be able to splurge once in a while.
If you're going to your favorite restaurant for dinner, eat a light
breakfast, skip lunch, and take a long walk after dinner.
A few more calories one day a week won't hurt. What will hurt is
the guilt of overeating. That guilt can cause you to eat even more.
If your are going to splurge, DON'T feel guilty.
There was a book published a few years ago called "Controlled
Cheating". The concept was, diet 6 days, splurge one day.
An important part of successful weight control is planning.
--- Neal
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| 56.1 | Calories in the bank. | SQM::AITEL | Helllllllp Mr. Wizard! | Thu Jun 11 1987 00:10 | 17 |
Calorie banking works pretty well for me. I take my calorie totals
a week at a time. If I know I want to go out Saturday, I'll cut
out 50 calories per day all week. Takes some planning! but
I can't do the "light breakfast, skip lunch" route, because
if I do I REALLY pig out at dinner. In fact, if I'm going
to a restaurant for dinner and it's going to be late (like
8 or 9), I make sure I have something like an apple at
around 5. Then I'm not absolutely STARVING and irrational
by the time the menu is placed in my hot little hands.
This concept is something I learned through the LIFESTEPS
program. It puts YOU in control of your binges and, in
reality, makes them no longer "binges" but simply a special
dinner that you've planned into your diet. No guilt.
--Louise
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| 56.2 | don't skip lunch | REGAL::ACKERMAN | Tue Jun 16 1987 11:32 | 5 | |
I agree with .0 and .1. Saving up for a splurge works pretty well
for me. But I agree with .1 in that if I skip lunch I am totally
out of control for the rest of the day. I end up eating more than
I would have if I had eaten lunch.
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