Winning in the Losing Game of Weight Loss

Everyone is talking about winning. They want to win the Superbowl, the hockey game, the basketball game and the lottery. But who is talking about losing?

Better yet, IS THERE ANYONE TALKING ABOUT LOSING (WEIGHT THAT IS) WHO ISN'T TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING? I'm not selling anything. Not even my book on weight loss. I'm giving it to you FREE, chapter by chapter, on this blog.
Maybe that's what makes the Brown Bag Diet different. I'm interested in motivating you to WIN at this game of losing weight. That's why I created the watchword/slogan system for the Brown Bag Diet.

Our last watchword slogan was Portion Control.

Now let's look into how this watchword can help you.

Portion control and awareness are probably the two most important practices for successful weight loss programs. After all, you can eat all the right foods but still not have healthy habits. When you eat the proper foods but you eat them in greater quantities than allowed by your plan your body reacts accordingly. The extra protein that your body doesn't need, the extra fat and sweets, the extra cereals and even the extra fruits get stored in your body. And these extra items will be stored as fat.

Calories from sweets and fat pile up fat fastest. There are limits to everything, IE The food pyramid recommends six servings of bread on a normal non-weight loss diet. Adding each extra slice of bread adds to the calorie stores you carry. And these stores eventually become fat.

The best way to learn what portions are proper for you is to select a diet program together with your doctor, dietitian or nutritionist. Then determine what your daily calorie intake should be. Your dietitian can design meals to meet these goals. Your doctor may give you the values of each food to help you pick out the quantity of foods from each food group you need.

In my next post I'll show you how to right size the portions you choose. In the meantime enjoy the games of sport, of chance and start winning at the game of losing weight.

Got friends who need an extra boost to get into shape? Why not help them with what the advertising people call viral advertising. Pass our blog address on to them.

You can help save the world from tipping over due to all those people you know who are overweight just by passing them our blog address. Then they can sign on for tips and clues for dieters just like you do.

After all, even those who don't need to lose weight have friends and relatives that could benefit.

Erwin Posner, R.Ph.
Brownbagdiet.blogspot.com

Can all of us together lose 1 million pounds?

How can a group of people lose 1 million pounds?

My name is Erwin Posner and I’m the author of “The Brown Bag Diet” –tips & clues for dieters from the pharmacist’s notebook". I began to compile notes over a period of 15 years about successful dieters who patronized my pharmacy. I put the tips and clues in my book (BBD) and I’d like to share those tips with you in this blog.

I believe in the whole/part method of learning. Successful dieting usually means learning or perhaps unlearning unhealthy habits. Since “the Brown Bag Diet” is a technique rather than a specific diet it requires learning. The best way to learn the technique is to do so bit by bit. You know, baby steps lead to giant ones of progress. That’s why I plan to put a small portion of my book on this blog each week. Each week we can, as they say, get better and better in every way. We can all help one another to reach our goals successfully by joining together on this project.

Before we begin I’d like to share a thought I heard at a recent lecture. That was that the human brain isn’t that much more advanced than some lower animals. So why have humans advanced and our dogs, cats and rabbits are no farther ahead than they were thousands of years ago. Because, the lecturer said, we know how to network our brains. Each generation of humans uses it’s collective brain power in tandem to advance knowledge. The next generation uses the knowledge we developed as a base to advance their knowledge. Our dogs and cats can’t do that.

I can see that you’re asking, “ What does that have do with dieting to lose weight", brown bagging or for that matter the title of this piece, Losing 1 million pounds"? It’s simple. I think we should fortify our effort by networking with 1 million other dieters. You can lose 1 pound in 1 week. One pound isn’t much. It doesn’t take much education or training to figure out how to do this.

I’d like to give you all an assignment before we begin the text of the book. Enlist everyone on all of your email lists to join with us by adding the BrownBagDiet blog link to their bookmarks. Let’s get 1 million people to join us. Then let’s all lose 1 pound together.

That will be a lot of weight to take off our shoulders and a lot of other places.

Let’s give everyone one week to get the word out to their email contacts. Then lets all lose 1 pound in the following week.

I think we can do it. What do you think?

Erwin Posner, R.Ph.