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Key tips for Losing Weight. Usefull information for dieters:
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Reduce
rate of eating
- Keep food records.
- Eliminate environmental
triggers to eating.
- Identify high-risk
situations for overeating.
- Uncouple eating
from other activities.
Diet & fitness plans
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Consider the following plans:
Exercise
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Confront psychological barriers to exercise.
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Understand mechanisms linking exercise to weight control.
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Establish reasonable exercise goals.
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Integrate increased activity into daily lifestyle.
Attitudes
- Develop reasonable
weight-loss goals.
- Avoid "all
or none" thinking.
- Focus attention
away from the scale and toward behavior.
- Uncouple weight
from self-esteem.
- Recover from lapses
with constructive action (relapse prevention).
Relationships
- Understand the
key role of social support to health.
- Identify supportive
others.
- Match personal
style to support-seeking activities.
- Be specific in
making support requests.
- Be assertive but
reinforcing in drawing help from others.
Nutrition
- Resist the lure
of popular fad diets.
- Develop pro-health
rather than restriction mentality about eating.
- Eat with moderation
in mind.
- Maximize fiber.
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Develop a tailored plan.
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