Healthy Weight Loss Advice

Best Advice for Any Weight Loss Goal

Whether you need to lose 10 or 100 pounds, this expert advice will help you drop the weight and keep it off
By Karen Asp fitbie
 

Step 1: Conquer Common Trouble Zones

Nix sugar-sweetened beverages. You know that old weight loss equation “calories in versus calories out”? Well sometimes we forget to count those sugary beverages like sodas (with the exception of diet versions), vitamin waters, or even some fruit juices. “Unlike eating food that your body registers, these liquid calories slip by your body unnoticed,” says Eric Ding, MD, nutritionist and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As a result, you don’t count these calories, and you then pack on the calories without realizing it. Your best beverage choice? Water. (Video: 3 Drinks That Boost Metabolism)

Minimize your involvement with food. “The more you’re around food, the more you’ll eat, which means the more weight you’ll gain,” says Gerard J. Musante, PhD, founder of the Structure House, a residential weight loss program in Durham, NC, and author of The Structure House Weight Loss Plan. The fix? Eat three solid meals a day, no snacks. If you want to eat between meals, ask what’s driving you to eat (stress, boredom, loneliness, anger) and find nonfood-related ways to cope with those issues.

Avoid the five food felons. Five sneaky foods could be driving up the scale: grains that aren’t 100% whole wheat and foods with added sugars, added syrups, saturated fats, and trans fats. “You can become addicted to these foods, which provide no nutrition and are loaded with calories,” says Michael F. Roizen, MD, cofounder of RealAge and chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

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