Family and Your Weight Loss Plan

How to Incorporate Others into Your “Diet”

Don’t announce that you are going to lose weight. You want to have made some significant progress. I think around 10 pounds is a good starting point to feel confident that you can lose weight. At some point others are going to notice and begin asking if you have lost weight. I truly recommend down playing the situation and let your weight loss speak for itself.

 

Include Family in Menus

 

You do want to include your family in the menu planning. Learning actual nutrients and how to create well-balanced meals and mini-meals is education that should be shared with the entire family. Make sure that you are selecting foods that you and your family love! There is no sense in eating foods that you don’t like. Food is to be enjoyed! Make sure when you go grocery shopping that you have your menus’ figured out and you buy only foods that go together and for which you have a plan.

 

Eating More Often

 

When you are losing weight you will find that you are eating more often than you are used to.  Mini-meals are a great way to get you from one major meal to the other. Some people call them snacks, but I think of junk food when I hear the word snacks, so I prefer mini-meal. Your family and friends may be interested as to what is going on. If you can just let them know you are a little hungry and decided to eat a little something. You should never be full or hungry. Your goal is to always feel just right.

 

Exercise With Others

Feel free to do physical activity with others, including your kids, just don’t associate it with losing weight. Your physical activity should always be about your health and not your weight. Stress management is another advantage of daily exercise. Even a walk after dinner with your spouse can be a nice way to finish the day. I really cannot stress this enough…DO NOT WORKOUT TO LOSE WEIGHT!! Work out daily aerobically and be sure to include weights into your routine switching off between arms and legs daily.

 

Once You Have Lost Weight

 

After you have lost weight you will have changed the way that you and your entire family looks at food and exercise. Remember that losing weight is a solo-project. But, the education of the principles of nutrition and daily exercises are great gifts to share.

 

Sherri Sue Fisher author of TimerDiet and TimerOrganizer

 

 

 

Eat Butter

Eat Butter

Eat butter is the newest and latest scientific study reported by: Bryan Walsh in Time Magazine in its article “Eat Butter.” dated June 23, 2014 to come out and actually be in favor of what I wrote in my last book TimerDIET, where on page #33 I specifically say,

“Butter is as basic as it gets—salt and cream—just two basic ingredients combined together to make an amazing thing called butter. I use it every day! I think butter gets a bad reputation because…”

Well you should really read everything I have to say on the subject and that of eating well-balanced in general.

Butter is NOT the enemy

What Do We Eat?

Of course no one (not yet anyway) is recommending that you live your life on butter alone, even though I am sure there is going to be a surge in the buying of butter, which is sad for those of us who have been using it all along and seeing the price steadily increase over the last few months. But, I have digressed…sorry! You should eat a well-balanced diet and that means (in my opinion) to include dietary fat, protein, and carbohydrates with each and every meal. So that means if you have fruit (carbs) then you need dietary fat and protein, perhaps cheese or maybe a hard-boiled egg. I personally love tomatoes, green onions and a hard-boiled egg. But, then I also love some wine and cheese (the perfect pairing in my world!)

What Not to Eat?

I am going to go out on a limb here and say, “Do NOT eat a stick of butter!” I know it is harsh and very definitive, but don’t do it. It won’t help you lose weight and it won’t make you feel very good either. Don’t eat foods that you cannot control yourself with. I rarely eat potato chips since for me it is true, I can’t eat just one…what a declarative statement if there was one. The slogan is a warning. Don’t eat to the point of feeling full. Yes, this is what I talked about last week in my blog, “The One Thing.” But it deserves repeating. If you are full, you ate too much, just relax and write down why you think you ate too much and then as they say, “try, try again”. Learning to eat the right amount of food FOR YOU, takes a little trial and error, but once you learn your ‘sweet-spot’, you will find losing weight and keeping it off simpler than you imagined.

So here is to all of you that are going to the store right now and buying butter, I am glad you now know it is not the enemy, but I hope the price doesn’t soar because of this!

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet

www.timerdiet.com

And to be released very, very soon TimerOrganizer!

www.timerorganizer.com

 

The One Thing

The One Thing

Daily Exercise

I get asked this question often, “What is the ‘One Thing’ that you need to do to lose weight. I used to dread this question since there isn’t just “One Thing.”  But I know people want to know the gist of what my book is about and I get that.

I used to be vague

I would say it is more about a lifestyle change to which I got a little bit of “I don’t think so” looks. No one really wants to change their lifestyle, especially if they can’t visualize what it will look like.

So then I tried being more specific

I decided to give them the premise in a few short sentences: “Well, you want to eat a well-balanced diet that consists of dietary fat, protein, and carbohydrates at each and every meal so you don’t over eat. And be sure to exercise every day in order to keep your appetite steady. Then I would feel bad that I didn’t tell them to eat eggs for breakfast whenever possible and cheese and crackers before bed if they are hungry and everything else that is in the 250 pages of my book that will help them achieve success. But their eyes were already glazed over with the ‘too much information’ look.

But, then I would think…

Drink plenty of water

Why don’t they just read the book? There are so many diet books out there and I don’t blame someone if they feel oh this is just another book telling me I have to change my entire way of living and eat bean sprouts and wheat grass, stop drinking wine and eating white bread (I don’t have any of those restrictions or ideas in my book, by the way) But, I get it, how do you know for sure? You don’t. Until you read the entire book from beginning to end you won’t know all there is to losing the weight and keeping it off. The mindset and thought process along the way are key in losing weight, yet cannot be explained in coffee banter.

Get plenty of sleep

I hope you try it

Really the only way to explain it is to read it and try it. It will change the way you look at food and exercise and how to enjoy your life. So to those who read the entire book and understand now all that goes into really losing weight on your own terms making your own rules and keeping the weight off once you have figured out your best weight for you—Thank you!

Thank you for believing in me that I would give you great advice that you could use and more importantly want to use.

And to those who are not ready and yet want to know the “One Thing”

So you still want to know the “One Thing” to do to lose weight, I would say this, “be sure to stop eating at the point you are no longer hungry—if you need to eat again because you got hungry again, go for it!” Learn to NOT like the feeling of being full and embrace satisfied. It is all about trial and error and listening to your body.

Bon appétit

Sherri Sue Fisher, author of TimerDiet

Available in Hardback, paperback, e-book, and audio book

www.timerdiet.com