Long post- Simple ways to speed up weight loss
Posted June 16, 2007 
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Comments(4) Hope this helps someone! It was in a weight loss newsletter I get! I thought I would share with all of you; my buddies!
rnHere are some simple ways to speed up the weight-loss process, without sacrificing health benefits:
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- Buy food instead of packages. Challenge yourself to buy only fresh food for a week mdash; meat and fish from the butcher, fruits and vegetables from the produce section, whole grains from the health-food store bins, etc. When you buy “food” instead of “packages”, you’re eliminating any chance of unwanted processing, refined grains, added hydrogenated fats, and mysterious chemicals sneaking into your diet. rn
- Eat more chicken and fish for protein than red meat, beans, or eggs rn
- Skimp on you plate filling. There’s no rule saying you have to load it up to the edges. Portions just a tiny bit smaller will pay off over the long run. rn
- Eat even more slowly. The longer you take at a meal, the less you’re likely to eat and the more satisfied you’ll feel. Find ways to slow down at all three meals, not just the one very leisurely meal of the day. rn
- Choose most of your vegetables from what we call “Tier 1.” Tier 1 vegetables are more nutrient-dense, with fewer calories. rn
- Limit snacks to nothing more than a Tier 1 vegetable. If that’s enough to tide you over until the next meal, why have more? rn
- Drink your snack. Try having a cup of hot tea or a tall glass of water instead of your usual snack. You may be more thirsty than hungry, and as long as you’re not reaching your next meal in starve mode, those uneaten calories will pay off. rn
- If you haven’t been exercising, start. If you have been exercising, push up the intensity a notch.
Tier 1 Vegetables
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- Asparagus rn
- Bagged salad blend, any type rn
- Bamboo shoots rn
- Beans, green snap or yellow wax rn
- Bell peppers, yellow, red, or green rn
- Bok choy rn
- Broccoli, raw or cooked rn
- Brussels sprouts, cooked rn
- Cabbage, raw or cooked rn
- Cauliflower, raw or cooked rn
- Celery rn
- Chayote rn
- Collard greens, cooked rn
- Cucumber rn
- Eggplant, cooked rn
- Fennel rn
- Green onions rn
- Hubbard squash, cooked rn
- Jicama rn
- Kohlrabi rn
- Leeks, cooked rn
- Lettuce ? romaine, beet greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, Swiss chard, kale, or other dark green leafy lettuce, amaranth, arugula, celtuce, endive, rapini rn
- Mushrooms, raw or cooked rn
- Napa cabbage rn
- Okra, cooked rn
- Onions, raw or cooked rn
- Radicchio rn
- Radishes rn
- Snow peas rn
- Spinach, raw or cooked rn
- Sprouts ? alfalfa, kidney bean, mung bean, radish seed rn
- Summer squash rn
- Tomato, raw rn
- Watercress rn
- Zucchini
