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WHAT YOU DO Weekly support-group meetings and weigh-ins, food journaling and the "points system" help you eat properly and stay motivated
That discordance can do a lot of damage. Himmelgreen tracked the weight of Puerto Rican women living in the continental U.S. and found that the longer they had been here and the better their English, the more they tended to weigh. "People's food habits change dramatically when they arrive," he says. "The weight gain can happen in a very short time...
...general strategy toward nutrition: limiting the calories and to a lesser extent the amount of fat in their diet. (It will be interesting to see if this observation continues to hold as high-protein diets become more popular.) That doesn't mean that they necessarily count each calorie or weigh every portion, but they often started by looking up the calorie content of their favorite foods. "I was surprised at how calories can sneak up on you," says Gregg Fields, 44, a college professor in Delray Beach, Fla., who lost 35 lbs. and has kept them off for eight years...
Finally, almost all the registry's long-term losers eat breakfast and weigh themselves regularly, usually once a day. Eating breakfast--particularly one that emphasizes fruits, vegetables or cereals rich in fiber--seems to be a natural appetite suppressant. And there is nothing like stepping on the scales each morning to figure out whether you need to boost your physical activity or push back a little sooner from the table...
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