Deprivation & stravation are bad for you

Many "diets" nowadays fail because you deprive yourself from a specific type of food like fat, sugar, carb, or whatever. If you want to succeed on the long term, eat small portions of everything. That way, your body is not deprived or a certain type of food. Because, most likely, after 6 months, or 1 year, you will end up eating that food & gaining that weight back much faster than you lost it.

Starvation is also bad, because it will make your body super efficient & will preserve anything you feed it in the form of fat. Once your starvation is over, you body continues to be super efficient & you will gain more weight when you eat any little thing.

Over-Eating Over-Eating Over-Eating...

Over-Eating is one of the main reasons we gain weight; how to stop this bad habit? Here are some suggestions:
- Eating slowly will help you eat less
- If you have to overeat; select what you will overeat, get some lettuce, or tomatoes, you do not want to overeat chocolate or pizza!!
- Talk while you eat, this will help you slow down
- When done with your food & want to eat more, wait for 20 minutes & most of the time, you will realize that you are no longer hungry.
- Get a hot drink like green tea or get some unsweetened juice or some water with lime or lemon; this will moderate your appetite quite a bit.
- Eat more fibers, they will make you feel more full

Most of the time, when we over-eat, we tend to focus too much on the food, try to focus on somthing else like reading a book or browsing the internet.

Cheese lover? Read this

If you love cheese like me, you will need to make substitutions in your diet:
- Substitute whole fat cheese with lower fat cheese
- Eat more cottage cheese
- Eat more vegetables
- Eat more vegetables
- Eat more vegetables
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I am talking about raw vegetables like snack to fill you up like carrots, cucumber, broccolli, tomatoes...
- This one is hard to get; but, try to find whole wheat pizza, if not make it at home

Educate yourself about nutrition...

Educating yourself about nutrition is way better investment of your time and much more fun than waisting your time shopping around for a diet. This will benefit you on the long term & loosing weight will be a side effect.

When you educate yourself about nutrition, not only will you benefit yourself, but, also the people around you.