BY AYOUB OUBARKA
I have a confession to make. There are two foods that are almost impossible for me to turn down. Hershey's
Symphony bars (I love chocolate) and my grandmother's homemade chocolate-chip cookies (my wife
makes them pretty good too, but she knows better than to make them for me). My wife's Achilles heel is the
almighty potato chip... or french fries.
You're going to want to snack on junk food. For some it's chocolate and chips. For others it's pizza and
chicken wings. What do you do? All I can tell you is this: if you want to lose the weight, you're going to
have to cut the junk food mostly out of your diet until you get your weight down to where you're happy.
Then, when you're where you want to be, you can reintroduce some of the junk food back into your diet,
but do it within reason, and keep your exercise up.
For now, during your first two weeks of your weight loss diet, just say goodbye to all those junk food
snacks. After your first two weeks, reward yourself with something good. Or, do what I did... set yourself
a short-term goal weight and reward yourself when you reach it. When I was on my way down from 300
to 200 pounds, I set a reward of having a steak dinner at Roadhouse with a loaded baked potato, their
awesome rolls, and a dessert for every 10 pounds I lost (290, 280, 270, etc.)
I know that a lot of diet specialists tell you not to look at food as a reward, but I really tried extra hard
knowing how good that dinner was going to taste when I hit my goal weight - and without any guilt!
I planned it in advance. And you know what, if you've been eating right all week long, having one fatty
dinner isn't going to kill your diet. Why? Your body simply can't metabolize all of that food in one shot.
Quite frankly, most of it will pass right through you. Now, that doesn't mean you should go out each
weekend and gorge yourself... what I'm trying to say is that it's OK to indulge in one meal (or other snack)
that's outside of your diet parameters once in a while (once a week, for example).
Just try to keep your overall calories in mind... remember calories in - calories out... and eat right most of
the time.
I have a confession to make. There are two foods that are almost impossible for me to turn down. Hershey's
Symphony bars (I love chocolate) and my grandmother's homemade chocolate-chip cookies (my wife
makes them pretty good too, but she knows better than to make them for me). My wife's Achilles heel is the
almighty potato chip... or french fries.
You're going to want to snack on junk food. For some it's chocolate and chips. For others it's pizza andchicken wings. What do you do? All I can tell you is this: if you want to lose the weight, you're going to
have to cut the junk food mostly out of your diet until you get your weight down to where you're happy.
Then, when you're where you want to be, you can reintroduce some of the junk food back into your diet,
but do it within reason, and keep your exercise up.
For now, during your first two weeks of your weight loss diet, just say goodbye to all those junk food
snacks. After your first two weeks, reward yourself with something good. Or, do what I did... set yourself
a short-term goal weight and reward yourself when you reach it. When I was on my way down from 300
to 200 pounds, I set a reward of having a steak dinner at Roadhouse with a loaded baked potato, their
awesome rolls, and a dessert for every 10 pounds I lost (290, 280, 270, etc.)
I know that a lot of diet specialists tell you not to look at food as a reward, but I really tried extra hard
knowing how good that dinner was going to taste when I hit my goal weight - and without any guilt!
I planned it in advance. And you know what, if you've been eating right all week long, having one fatty
dinner isn't going to kill your diet. Why? Your body simply can't metabolize all of that food in one shot.
Quite frankly, most of it will pass right through you. Now, that doesn't mean you should go out each
weekend and gorge yourself... what I'm trying to say is that it's OK to indulge in one meal (or other snack)
that's outside of your diet parameters once in a while (once a week, for example).
Just try to keep your overall calories in mind... remember calories in - calories out... and eat right most of
the time.
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