Winter is fun since you can hide your rolls of fat under bulky sweaters, parkas, scarves, ski pants and those puffy coats. But it's only temporary, and now is the time to start your diet, for the day will come when your body will emerge from hibernation and we'll all see just what you've been doing. Losing weight is easy with just a few rules in place:Eat only half of what is on your plate. Throw the rest down the garbage disposal, and if you think that's a shameful waste, then just consider how throwing it down your gullet feeds any more of those starving children.
Prepare foods that are healthy but not all that tasty and not even to your liking. For example, beets. And stop using salt in your cooking and meal preparations. In no time you will be much less interested in eating.
Get on the scale first thing every morning. Invest in a good one, preferably a doctor's scale rather than one that sits on the floor and changes your weight depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Stop eating in restaurants so often. According to author Trent Hamm, "The average American eats an average of 4.2 commercially prepared meals per week. In other words, as a nation, we eat out between four and five times a week, on average. This number equates to 18.2 meals in an average month eaten outside the home." And he's only talking about people on limited incomes; the affluent do it much more frequently.
If you find yourself in a restaurant, make sure it is not Chinese; you will definitely gain three pounds by morning. Besides that, here are some other tips to keep from turning into the Goodyear Blimp by Memorial Day:
1. Tell your server "NO BREAD!" long before it arrives.
2. Only order foods you can pronounce.
3. Forget dessert; don't even ask what they have "just for fun."
4. Share an appetizer or skip it altogether.
5. Tell your server you are on a salt-free diet and you could die. The chef will be instructed to hold the salt, trust me.
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