DIET, TECHNIQUES

There are many techniques of being on diet:
1.Verbal and Mental Techniques
Contemplation, imaging you are engaging a close friend in a conversation thereon. Consider how you life has changed since you have become fat. Think about the quality of life of your slim friends. Think about what you have done to yourself and how you are reversing that trend. Plot out a course of action. Repeat to your self various statements as though you are rehearsing a speech. Practice repeatedly this mental dialogue, for such practice makes future discussion that much easier.
2. Conversations: Tell everyone about how you are going on a diet. Describe how important it is and that you are now being a new phase of your life. Talk about how so many important things will be improved, such as your health, ability to work, play sports, sex, and your marriage. Ask them questions about diet. Engage your friends in conversation about diet.
3. visualization, Carry a photo of you when taken when prior to becoming fat and a current photo. Put similar photos on your desk. Have a picture taken of you in a bathing suit, make copies of it, and place them in several places such as the refrigerator, kitchen table, and desk, where they will remind you that you are on a diet. Visual participating in activities that you dont (or dont do well) because youre fat, such as sports, lovemaking, jogging, cycling, hiking, swimming, etc. Imagine yourself thin and having to carry 50 or more pounds of fat around wherever you go.[i] Now visualize yourself as thin doing those things. Visualize how much happier your spouse will be when you become physically attractive again, and how this will improve your relationship.
4. Readings and Studies: Find books on diet and read them. Find medical articles on metabolism, diet, and medical intervention. Take notes and discuss the subject matter with friends. Especially study the negative health consequences. The moderately obese person lives on an average 5 years less than the person who is not obese, and 8 years less than the fit person. Many diseases are drastically increased with weight gain including cancer (most carcinogens are fat soluble), arthritis, diabetes, and coronary disease being the most significant.[ii] Knowledge is one of the cornerstones to success.
5. NOTE TAKING: Keep track, a journal, of what you have done: the hours, the subjects, and any good ideas. Carry a stenographers tablet with you. And while you are about keep a journal include a section concerning your eating habits. Pay particular attention to those events preceding your eating too much or eating when not hungry. Also note the amount and what were eaten, and how hungry you were. Keep a daily log, then weekly work out your cumulative record. Enter the log in your computer. Records are much, much better than recollections.
FOOD TO EAT
1. Avoid foods which you are likely to eat too much of.
2. Drink water or diet soda. Many people consume over a 1,000 calories per day in fluids.
3. Avoid foods with more than 10% fat content. Fats contribute 3 times as many calories per gram as carbohydrates.
4. Avoid foods that arent filling such as fruits and sherbet, and other foods that increase your appetite or reduce the amount of time after a meal that it will take before you are again hungry.
5. Dont use calories as a guide,[iv] rather the percentage of fat and of simple carbohydrates. Cellulose calories are not an accurate measurement of the energy derived from foods.
6. Eat foods that are high in protein or cellulose.
EATING HABITS
1. Before beginning to eat, discuss your diet with your companions. Bring up, among other things, what you are doing to limit the amount of food to be consumed.
2. When eating by yourself, get out the amount you plan to eat and put it in your plate, and then put away the containers you got your food from.
3. Don’t leave out snacks or leave them in handy places. Some people even put a lock on their refrigerator, to make not so easy to open it.
4 Avoid large meals.[iii] If going to a restaurant, chose one with small portions and cheap food.
5. Putt off the first meal as long as possible. Wait till you are good and hungry.
6 Put off each subsequent meal until you are good and hungry.
7 Don’t eat a couple of hours before going to bed.
8 Eat only enough to take away your hunger.
9 Eat slowly, this will give a chance for what you have eaten to take away your hunger.
10. Eat small snacks between meals to help reduce the number of meals. Moreover, by snack you wont need to load up at the dinner table to prevent between meal hungers. .
11. Control the portions of your snacks. If necessary, have pre-measured portions in baggies.
12. Eat less than your normal portion.
13. Learn to eat slowly (obese people typically eat faster).
14. Choose filling, low-fat, low sugar, high protein meals and snacks. Avoid foods that improve your appetite and things that are not filling such as fruits and chocolates.

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