New Watchword/Slogan today is VISUALIZE

Why visualize?
Because it's the method used by some of the most gifted athletes and top notched sales people to help them succeed. Visualizing is a method of preparing yourself for the task. Visualizing is a method of insuring a positive attitude. Visualizing is the first step and makes the second step easier to take.

Before running a race the champion athlete goes over the race. He can see himself getting out of the starting blocks. He can feel the pace at the first turn. He mentally knows how much energy he needs to conserve and expend for each point in the race. The athlete can visualize the win before starting the race.

So can you. Your race is different. ;You're not racing against time. You're not racing to beat anyone else. You're racing to improve yourself. By visualizing each step in your weight loss race you can anticipate your win.

Prepare yourself by visualizing what you will eat for breakfast in the morning. When your actually eat it, you'll find the exercise in visualizing made it more satisfying.

Then visualize the snack allowed by your plan if it's included in your regimen. Continue through your day with lunch and dinner meals, each time making mental pictures before you actually eat them.

Visualize getting on your scale next week and seeing that you've reached the goal you set for the week. You can get on your scale mentally and see the one or two pound difference a week has made. You know you have the power to win and you know you'll get the prize.

Even if you have a setback one week, you can visualize overcoming that. Visualize yourself back on track as your first step back. Then take the second step back to your regimen.

You can do it. You can taste success. It tastes sweet. It feels great. You love it. It's yours.

You win with a slimmer, healthier and better looking you.

Don't forget to send our link to all your friends. We can visualize our success along with yours.

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

My Mother made me FAT

That could be. But being fat is reversible.

First let's examine the possibilities. Of course there is genetics. Say you have similar bone structures, facial features and you even have the same walk or smile of one of your relatives. Certainly that's genetics. And you say all of these people are fat, so being fat is something I can't control.

Then there are eating habits you learned at your mother's knee or better at the kitchen table.
Have you heard these comments from your Mom?

"Have more, it's cold outside".
"Make all gone - millions are starving". (as if making all gone will stop them from starving)
"You hurt yourself? Have some cookies or other chocolate comfort food."

You know the drill. Blame your genetics. That way you can blame your mother or other relatives. Or blame your Mom for teaching you bad eating habits. The nature and nurture arguments allow you to think, "There's nothing I can do about being overweight".

Friends, that's what they thought in the old days. In the new days we know differently.
So how can you change you ask?

Get on one of the standard diet programs and stick to it. If you choose South Beach, Atkins or Weight Watchers give the program a chance to work for you.

Have you seen all the gyms around town. Get ready to sweat some of the blubber off. The people on the tread mills and bicycles aren't waiting for genetics to do their tricks. They're proactive and active is the operable word.

Caution: Before beginning an exercise program get checked out by a doctor.

Once again I say, "YOU CAN DO IT". Go to a mirror and you shout the watchword/slogan of today's post, "I CAN DO IT".

Pass the good news around so all your friends can join you by shouting
<WE CAN DO IT>.

Write me at brownbagdiet@gmail.com or
add your comments to the comment window on this blog.

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

America's Best Diet

Judging America's best diet is like judging wine. There are so many diets to choose from but which is the absolutely best one? Guess what? The answer to that question is no secret.

The absolutely best diet is ... (let's hear a drum roll)

the one that works for YOU.

Let's say you start Weight Watcher's but don't like their system. Then that's no problem. Try Pritikin. But if Pritikin is too strict for you, try Atkins. And you can go down the line.

Just give each one a proper trial. Don't go to one or two Weight Watcher meetings and expect miracles. And don't borrow the printed info from your friend who attends Weight Watchers and try to do it on your own without the meetings.

The same is true for Atkins or Ornish or South Beach or and any MAIN LINE diet program. Give them a proper trial and you will find the one that is best for you.

Remember, even if you have had prior success with one of them you may need a change to get things going for your self this time. The real secrect is to be consistent.

Refer to our earlier post on Choosing the diets to get an overview of what each requires.

You can do it. We are all doing it--- together. Also, keep in mind that we can all have the road map to successful dieting. It's just that for some of us we might need different road maps to get there.

Did this give you a boost today? If so let me know. And send our blog address to others so we can have success for the greatest number of readers possible.

Revolutionary Diet Gets Results

I suppose you think I'll tell you a secret that will create automatic weight loss. Nothing like that is automatic. But revolution can be good for your weight. Let me tell you how.

As a teen you had feelings of rebellion. Every teen has. You who are teen readers know what I mean. Rebelling against the rules at school, your parents demands and a million other things that society expects. They demand and you feel, IT'S TIME TO SAY NO.

That's the spirit of revolution and you can make it work for you and your diet. Think about the times you felt like starting a revolution in your home to change things so they would be more to your liking. Now apply those revolutionary thoughts to your weight situation.

This is the time to write your own Declaration of Independence. Assert yourself. NO MORE BAD EATING HABITS. NO MORE INAPPROPRIATE SNACKING. NO MORE UNCONTROLLED PORTION SIZES. Say to yourself, I Rebel against temptation and bad habits.

You can do it. You can start a one person revolution in a war against FAT.

Keep these watchwords in mind all this week: . <I'm starting a Revolution> against FAT and you will win the war.

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

Why deny a rat a good, satisfying BURP

Here's some news from the scientific community about dieting. Scientists from Purdue University studied the use of artificial sweeteners in diets as an aid to weight loss. They gave two groups of rats slightly different diets. One group ate yogurt sweetened naturally with glucose. The other group ate yogurt sweetened with an artificial sweetener.

The findings were surprising. Those that ate the yogurt that was artificially sweetened actually gained more weight and body fat than those that ate yogurt sweetened by natural glucose.

Go figure. According to them, we trick our taste sensations when we use fake sweeteners in soda pop and other foods. That tricks our brain into wanting more food and more calories. Both we and the rats in the artificial sweetener group, they say, will gain weight as compared to the control group that used regular sweetener.

That makes a good case for drinking water that has no artificial anything. I don't know why but six to eight glasses of water together with the other restrictions of our diets seem to help dieters lose weight best.

What does that mean to us? Probably not much but maybe it explains why many people who are overweight who never add sugar to coffee, only drink diet soft drinks continue to be fat. It makes a good case for drinking plain water.

Naturally this is only one study. I ask, why deny a rat a good satisfying BURP? If they want to give the rats diet drinks, I think it's OK. Maybe the rats will even take the diet Pepsi challenge.

That's the news from camp wanadiet. Have a great weekend, drink lots of water and don't go too far from a convenient restroom.

Erwin Posner, R.Ph.

brownbagdiet.blogspot.com

CASINO DIETING

Did you ever hear of Casino Dieting?

I bet you haven't head of it by that name but you do know about it. I like to think that people who jump from their last fad diet to the latest one might just as well consider themselves at a casino.

Now let's be positive and put this into the best light. I'm not going to tell you these serial diets won't help you. However for the long pull you will be best off with a reasonable diet that has a great track record with lots of years with success. You may not get the dramatic losses that fad diets promise, like 20 pounds in 20 days, but you will probably enjoy weight loss that will stay of your hips and other places FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

By the way, have you heard of any weight loss spas that include a casino? Let me know if you have. It sounds like fun, doesn't it?

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

Pain relief for dieters,

We were discussing the pain of dieting, both the pain of resisting urges while staying on your diet and the mental anguish caused by being overweight.

Let's not enumerate the troubles that too many pounds causes. Let's find out what we can do about it.

Our last watchword/slogan was NEGATIVE VIBES HURT/ POSITIVE VIBES HELP>. This is a follow-up to that discussion. It's important to keep that in mind when you go shopping for food or clothes or when you get dressed up for social events. BE POSITIVE.

That doesn't mean buying clothes that are too tight because you are positively going to lose weight so you can fit into them properly. What is does mean is that you have to leave the past in the past.

Yes, your feelings have been hurt because of jokes or turned down for dates or passed over for roles of leadership at work. But the positive part of this is that you can overcome this and start new.

If you lost your leg in a car accident you can't grow a new one. If someone in your family met an untimely death you can't bring them back. But losing weight is an art you can learn to do and it is the art of the POSSIBLE.

By keeping this in mind you can break with the past negatives and start fresh with the current and future positives. It's up to you to get and maintain a positive mental attitude. This will alleviate the guilt and pain you have suffered from so long.

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