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100-A-DAY!

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

As I've always told you, successful weight-loss is all about calories in and calories out. Eat more calories and don't burn off enough of them and...you will gain weight. First, it'll be five pounds and before you know it, you'll be up to a ten-pound weight gain, then 25 pounds. And if you keep overeating, the double-digit weight gains will start showing up on your scale. Oh-oh!

I probably get thousands of letters a month from people who need to lose 100 pounds or more. And how does this happen? How does someone end up needing to lose that much weight? Well, it's because those people gain more and more weight over the years by consuming more and more calories than they burn off. It's that simple.Here's the formula. If you consume 3500 extra calories over "X" amount of time, you will gain one pound in that time. And following the math, if you consume an extra 7,000 calories, you'll gain two more pounds...and so on and so on. It takes 3,500 calories of food to equal one pound of fat.

Now if you keep on consuming all of those extra calories, one day you'll get on the scale and not believe the numbers you see. That's because for a long time, your body has been storing up all of those extra calories and that's why the numbers on your scale have just kept going up, up, up!So how do you lose all of those extra pounds your body has stored? Well, you do it by consuming fewer calories for one thing.

Let's say you're on a weight-loss food program where you're consuming 1500 calories-a-day. If you trim 100 calories-a-day from that program, you'll get your daily total down to 1400 calories. Now let me just say, you're really not going to miss those 100 calories. And you can do it fairly easily, too.

Maybe you'll do it by dropping a carbohydrate choice from your food program each day. Or maybe you'll trim a little from your dairy consumption. A little bit less protein and, viola! You've shaved 100 calories from your daily intake. Cut 20 calories here and 30 calories there and before you know it, you've saved 100 calories-a-day.Okay, I know what you're thinking, ", so I cut back 100 calories-a-day...big deal!" But wait-a-minute! If you cut 100 little calories-a-day for a whole year, multiply that 100 X 365 and you get 36,500 calories! Now go back to our 3500 calories = 1 pound formula and, surprise! You've lost 10 pounds in a year by cutting back those 100 calories-a-day, baby! (I'll accept your apologies now. Hey, 10 pounds off your body is a big deal!)Let's face it. A lot of you out there consume way too many calories- a-day. In fact, you can easily be consuming hundreds of extra calories daily without even being aware of it. Hey, if you're not careful, it's very easy to do. That's how so many people end up having 100 pounds or more to lose.

You can easily be fooled because 1000 calories may not look like a lot of food. But take, say a bowl of ice cream covered with hot fudge sauce, five chocolate chip cookies and look. You've got just about 1000 calories right there! And you could eat all of those calories in only about 14 minutes. (See how quickly you can get into trouble with that calorie consumption?)Do you use measuring cups and measuring spoons? Do you have a FoodMover to help teach you about eating the right portion sizes? You need these tools to help you be more accountable. And when you become more accountable, drop your caloric intake and exercise regularly, you'll drop those stored up calories and pounds from your body!

Remember, 100-A-DAY in your weight-loss efforts can go a long way toward helping you reach your goal!Love,

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This does not work for me!I don't eat ice cream every day or every week, I don't even eat it once a month!!! If I have ice cream,it's about 3 x's a year!! Very spaced out and I keep it to 1 scoop!I don't like chocolate all that much so it's not hard for me to stay away from chocolate chip cookies,nor do

I eat any other variety on a regular basis.I don't eat snack food most of the time,even when I have them in the house. Sure every now and then I do, but again,it's not on a regular basis.It's not a daily or weekly or even a monthly thing, just every now and again.And every since I stopped eating them regularly ( about 15 yrs ago) I gained weight. I didn't eat more food either,in fact I cut back on all my eating,changed how I cooked (and still cook this way) and still gained weight.So this formula, does not work for every body!!!It sure as hell didn't work for me!!! :(I gained about 90lbs when I changed my eating habits! I even ate low,low,low fat for a

year and never lost a single pound! but my cholesterol and triglycerides were low.So diet alone is no guarantee you'll lose weight,if that were the case,I'd be a skinny minnie by now! It does not work for

everybody!!!Now that I threw a hissy fit. I would like to go on record and say, I am very happy for those of you it does work for :)Changing your eating habits is not easy. It wasn't easy for me either when I started. The reason I stayed with it is because I knew overeating was not doing me any good,what I mean to say is, it wasn't helping,it wasn't making things better.Whatever problem I had was

still there no matter how much I ate,it didn't make it go away and in the end I still felt just as miserable as when I started eating,more so cause now I was getting fatter and eating wasn't making it better.This thought was what kept me on the straight and narrow. Sure there were a million times a day I wanted to drown my sorrows in food but knowing it wasn't going to change anything but make me fatter kept me from eating for comfort. It helped me stop using food as a coping mechanism.I never lost weight but I stopped abusing food.DaisyFrom: Sue in NJ <sue_in_nj@...>Subject: 's motd Wed Aug 11, 2010"~~TheFoodmovers" <thefoodmovers >, "~~rsdeal"

<rsdeal >, "~~100-plus" <100-plus >Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 4:56 AM

100-A-DAY!

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

As I've always told you, successful weight-loss is all about calories in and calories out. Eat more calories and don't burn off enough of them and...you will gain weight. First, it'll be five pounds and before you know it, you'll be up to a ten-pound weight gain, then 25 pounds. And if you keep overeating, the double-digit weight gains will start showing up on your scale. Oh-oh!

I probably get thousands of letters a month from people who need to lose 100 pounds or more. And how does this happen? How does someone end up needing to lose that much weight? Well, it's because those people gain more and more weight over the years by consuming more and more calories than they burn off. It's that simple.Here's the formula. If you consume 3500 extra calories over "X" amount of time, you will gain one pound in that time. And following the math, if you consume an extra 7,000 calories, you'll gain two more pounds...and so on and so on. It takes 3,500 calories of food to equal one pound of fat.

Now if you keep on consuming all of those extra calories, one day you'll get on the scale and not believe the numbers you see. That's because for a long time, your body has been storing up all of those extra calories and that's why the numbers on your scale have just kept going up, up, up!So how do you lose all of those extra pounds your body has stored? Well, you do it by consuming fewer calories for one thing.

Let's say you're on a weight-loss food program where you're consuming 1500 calories-a-day. If you trim 100 calories-a-day from that program, you'll get your daily total down to 1400 calories. Now let me just say, you're really not going to miss those 100 calories. And you can do it fairly easily, too.

Maybe you'll do it by dropping a carbohydrate choice from your food program each day. Or maybe you'll trim a little from your dairy consumption. A little bit less protein and, viola! You've shaved 100 calories from your daily intake. Cut 20 calories here and 30 calories there and before you know it, you've saved 100 calories-a-day.Okay, I know what you're thinking, ", so I cut back 100 calories-a-day...big deal!" But wait-a-minute! If you cut 100 little calories-a-day for a whole year, multiply that 100 X 365 and you get 36,500 calories! Now go back to our 3500 calories = 1 pound formula and, surprise! You've lost 10 pounds in a year by cutting back those 100 calories-a-day, baby! (I'll accept your apologies now. Hey, 10 pounds off your body is a big deal!)Let's face it. A lot of you out there consume way too many calories- a-day. In fact, you can easily be consuming hundreds of extra calories daily without even being aware of it. Hey, if you're not careful, it's very easy to do. That's how so many people end up having 100 pounds or more to lose.

You can easily be fooled because 1000 calories may not look like a lot of food. But take, say a bowl of ice cream covered with hot fudge sauce, five chocolate chip cookies and look. You've got just about 1000 calories right there! And you could eat all of those calories in only about 14 minutes. (See how quickly you can get into trouble with that calorie consumption?)Do you use measuring cups and measuring spoons? Do you have a FoodMover to help teach you about eating the right portion sizes? You need these tools to help you be more accountable. And when you become more accountable, drop your caloric intake and exercise regularly, you'll drop those stored up calories and pounds from your body!

Remember, 100-A-DAY in your weight-loss efforts can go a long way toward helping you reach your goal!Love,