Here are some helpful hints to support your process.

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Here are some helpful hints to support your process.

Remember the importance of breakfast. This is key to your success.

Skip breakfast and you'll be in trouble quickly.

Let's look at some good choices for breakfast:

an omelet and (hash browns ?) a little questionable

3/4 c. of cottage cheese and 1/2 c. strawberries

2 slices of whole grain toast with peanut butter

2 eggs and an orange

1 cup chili and brown rice

an egg and cheese burrito with a whole wheat tortilla

whole grain waffle with protein powder in the batter, applesauce and

yogurt on the top.

's Shake

Let's look at some quick meals for when you are on the run and can

hardly remember your name. Try to always plan what and when you are

going to eat. Plan for danger times. If you know you will have a

meeting through lunch, bring something with you to have before the

meeting. Know the choices in a convenience store so that the raisins

or candy bars don't hop into your mouth while you are falling off

the cliff. Try these options:

an apple, 2 cheese sticks and a handful of almonds

a baked potato with cottage cheese

a turkey sandwich on whole grain bread and a pear

Chinese food like chicken and broccoli. Ask them to hold the MSG and

sugar

egg salad and a whole grain bagel

When you are eating out, you can eat almost anywhere but you have to

think through what you will have before you pick the restaurant.

Most places will make you something special if you ask. Some places

will have overwhelming cues - liking marvelous deserts singing from

the case as you walk in. Don't go there when you are just starting.

Always check for hidden sugars. Read the label. You will be amazed

where sugars lurk.

Look at some of these surprises:

Slim Fast has 36 grams of sugar - almost as much as a Coke. No

wonder those women on TV are so happy to drink it!

Carnation Instant Breakfast says it has 28 grams of carbohydrates,

100% of which are sugar!

An apple bran muffin from Mc's has 20 grams of sugar and we

thought it was a " healthy " alternative.

Marilyn

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