How a Woman in Her Forties Lost Weight

This is the story of how I lost 15 pounds in my mid 40's. I preach it now, calling it "watch out for the once-in-a-while's".

I'm a registered dietitian: I know how many fat are in virtually every food; I know how many grams of fat there are in a serving, how many grams of carbs are contained, what a uncostly portion size is, and which foods have tiny nutritional value; I know how many servings a day I should have of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and starches.

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I know all of that. So why had I gained 15 pounds over the past 5 years and why wasn't it advent off? I ate reasonably well--I didn't binge, eat fast foods often, have desserts after every meal, or go out for ice cream every night. I was already eating what I understanding was a fairly low calorie diet (about 1800 fat daily), so what could I change?

Right now I don't remember when it hit me, but it hit me hard, and I never forgot it: I was mental about how well I avoided high calorie meals, struggling to outline out where I was going to come up with hundreds of fat a day to eliminate so I could lose a few pounds each month. I hardly ever ate fast food--maybe just every other week or so. I rarely had pizza because I knew that was a high-calorie dinner, so I wouldn't order one unless it had been a couple of weeks since the last time. Ditto with our local buffet restaurant, take-out chinese food, and eating out in any cafeteria which served rolls and butter before the main meal. I didn't eat desserts often at lunch, even though they boasted quite a display of them at the cafeteria where I worked, so I would treat myself just once or twice a week. I very occasionally would indulge in a donut or sweet roll for breakfast, so it was especially enjoyable when I would give in every week or so. Sometimes I would be on the road while a trip and I would loosen the 'rules' a bit, allowing for snacks to help pass the time on the drive--but that was only four or five times a year.

Are you seeing what I now see? I was trying to limit each of these indulgences to a uncostly frequency, but there were so many of them I wasn't being smart about all of them; I wasn't getting the meaning of eating the sum of all the foods that supply immoderate calories. I was, in fact, ingesting an extra 500 fat from something or other roughly every other day: If I hadn't had pizza that week I got the extra fat from chinese and fast food meals; if I didn't have sweetmeat I had already taken the fat earlier in the form of a donut; if I walked off the ice cream cone, I didn't exercise enough to walk off the cake from the office party too!

I understanding I was holding these "once-in-a-while's" down to once a month, but in fact I was "limiting" my selection 15 fattening foods to what amounted to 15 times a month--once a month for each of them--I had just found the hundreds of fat to shave off my diet and let the pounds fall off!

My new plan was to eat a high-calorie meal or food only once a week--total. I could select one day a week to have pizza or fast food or sweetmeat or a donut. I couldn't rationalize that I hadn't had a cinnabon for six months if I just had a twice-a-year candy bar yesterday--that would never bring me the negative calorie balance I needed that week to lose weight.

I struggled with the idea of giving up pizza when it was so tempting to order one on nights I didn't feel like cooking; giving up my favorite drive through cafeteria when I was out and about and got hungry all of a sudden; giving up my favorite donuts--just because I like donuts. But in the long run I realized I wanted to lose 15 pounds more than I wanted to eat donuts. There are plentifulness of foods I do like, and it's undoubtedly just as easy to focus on all the delights I can enjoy than it is to pine away for the foods that bring me nothing but immediate and temporary gratification, plus extra weight in the long run.

So I savor my fruits at snack time, munch on carrot sticks instead of potato chips with a sandwich, enjoy seeing new and uncomplicated recipes to make for dinner, quest for low calorie ice cream treats in the freezer section for lighter desserts, and plan ahead for times I don't feel like cooking. We now eat out much less often and speak how much we've saved in money, gas, and fat at the end of our family evening meal time. It feels good to eat healthier roughly all of the time instead of only half the time. And the lowest line for successful weight loss: It feels much best weighing anything I want to weigh than it does eating anything I want to eat.

How a Woman in Her Forties Lost Weight

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