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How To Lose Weight Suggestions From The Healthy Grill

Suggestion # 1

You and your wife:  You must both agree to lose weight (look at this as a team effort) at the same time and follow the same procedure.

 We feel like it is very important that you both have “buy in” or agreement that you will lose weight.  The best support person when you are losing weight is your spouse. 

AS a husband I had to come to the realization that my wife’s success as to her loosing the weight she wanted to, was dependent on me helping and providing support for her. 

As a wife she also had to come to the same conclusion.  We both had to have 100% buy in or the plan wouldn’t work.  We didn’t sign a formal agreement to that affect, but that might not be a bad idea.

 Most husbands can’t renege on a formal signed agreement. 

What we are outlining here or discussing is a change or diversion to the way you have been eating for ever how long you have been constantly gaining weight, like I did.

 One comment that I would like to make is:

for me I realized it took 21 years for me to gain this 67 pounds so it probably won’t come off over night. 

The point I am making is that very rapid weight loss might not be good for you, however as we stated we are not Doctors of Medicine, or Degreed Nutritious.

 We always feel like good old common sense goes a long way. So common sense here tells us that you shouldn’t lose weight too rapidly.

            The number one reason our family and friends listed as to why people gained too much weight is the simple fact that we over eat, and we eat the wrong type of foods 

 Suggestion #2

it’s actually quite simple, common sense tells us to cut down on your size portions of food that you put on your plate. 

One observation is this, do not get smaller portions and go back two or three times for other smaller portions. 

 Put the reduced portion size on your plate, eat that, and that is all, (easier said than done some times) and don’t sit at the table and “Graze like Cattle” picking from the bowl, after you have completed consuming your portion size. 

Please note that we aren’t saying or even encouraging you to “eat-up and get-out”,

but the contrary, if you eat your smaller portions at a slower pace, and allow yourself to have a nice family conservation at the table or where ever you eat,

  it will become a more enjoyable meal, and meal time will become a nice occasion again.

  Also by eating slower your brain tricks your stomach into thinking that there is more food entering the stomach than there actually is,

so a more fully satisfied feeling happens.   

We started by putting just the smaller size servings on the plates, and eating just that amount as served. 

We couldn’t “graze” because there wasn’t any bowls filled with extra food to tempt us into have more food. We also stored the other portions in a different container for lunch the next day, (A great savings as discudded in the section on How to save Money. 

So RECAPING: just fill up your plate with the proper portion for that meal and that is all.

This is a very basic procedure that will help keep you from over eating at meal time.

ou can call this method of eating less , or portion controll, what you want.

 But what we are doing is cutting down the number of calories going into your body every day.

Which brings me to the next suggestion?

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