Diet Tips

I have seen some improvements to my waistline thanks to my diet. I am now going to share some tips.

1) Dairy is fattening.

There is no quicker way to add extra and often needless amounts of calories than to cover/smother something in cheese or cheese-like substances, spreads, and sauces.

Cream, no mas creme de la caffem (No more cream for my coffee). Yes, dissapointing.

1) a) Adding sugar to dairy is bad. That means you ice cream and ice cream novelties.

2) Grocery shop often.

In order to stay on your diet you need lots of ripe produce, but produce ripens quickly. I suggest making a trip to the nearest Ball Mart to load up keep a constant stock of ripe or ripening bananas and apples at the ready.

3) Bananas and Apples and similar produces are the perfect snack. An apple or a banana has just enough calories to give you a boost, but not to many to weigh you down.

I have a tendency to look at any item I open as one serving size, from a snickers bar to a family size bag of fried potato chips. These fruits actually are one serving size, so it is okay to finish them in one sitting.

4) Do not stock up on unhealthy food alternatives (see No. #2). If you are hungry and the only thing in your house is apples and bananas, you will eat them. As long as they taste decent (they do) and they are convenient.

However, if you

A) Also keep fried potato chips in your house, you will inevitable pass up the healthy produce.
B) Do not have fresh produce on hand, you will be very tempted to pick up a meal at the local greasy fast food joint.

5) Count your calories. Counting your calories has multiple benefits, but it is best for managing your caloric intake and matching that to your desired input. By limiting your calories to at or under what the amount you consume in the day, you will be able to burn the stored up calories in your body (I assume).

Other benefits should be found at a consumer diet advocacy website of some sort.

6) On your diet you will probably visit Subway, as one of the better health choice options for fast food/ take out.

When you do, do not add oil and viniger. The oil adds like 90 calories to a footlong, which is around the same as cheese, and adds only marginal benefits.

7) If you stray from your diet on a day or two, don't freak out and drown your sorrows in boxes of fried potato chips. Take it from the tippy the following day.

8) When you make an exception to your diet make sure it completely erases the weeks and months of diligent dietary efforts and gains you have made thus far. Destroy those efforts in one foul sweep. Go to Fat Sammich on Halloween weekend.

I can't wait.