Fat Like Me Weigh-In 1-12-10

Our first week has come and gone. As I sit here watching both The Biggest Loser and my newest guilty pleasure The Doctors. The Doctors comes on sometime while I am at work, so thanks to the miracle invention of DVR, I can watch it almost every day. It just so happened that Monday's episode was titled 52 Easy Secrets to Lose Weight. While I am not going to share all of them with you, I will share a few of their suggestions.

Learn how to estimate calories and portion sizes. Remember that a proper portion of protein is about the size of a deck of cards.

Half of your plate at EVERY MEAL should be fruits and vegetables.

People who write down what they eat during the day lose twice the amount of weight as those who don't.

Take the stairs.

Errands that are less that 1 mile? Walk it.

Eat 4 grams of fiber at every meal and snack.

Become a part-time vegetarian.

Cut out the sweet drinks.

Drink before you eat. Often the body mistakes hunger for thirst.

They also talked about movie theater popcorn. A medium popcorn and soda is equivalent to 3 quarter pound cheeseburgers AND 12 pats of butter. That is around 1600 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat. That is three days worth of saturated fat. I am guilty of eating a large bucket or two of popcorn with added butter by myself. Not anymore. Also, it takes a thin person 12 minutes for the stomach to signal the brain that it is full. It takes an obese person 20 minutes for the same. Eat slower.

So how did you do this past week? I think I done pretty good. I now weigh 314.6 which for those of you keeping score is a 1 week loss of 8.8 pounds. Not bad for just tweaking what I eat.

Remember, don't set unrealistic goals and dates for yourself. Slow and steady wins the race.