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I thought that I would let you know how a typical day with my diet is.

Breakfast: Cup of cereal (just right or porridge), 1/2 cup skim milk & green tea.
water, 1 cup.

Morning tea: 5 pieces of dried apricot, green tea, 1 cup water

Lunch: 4 dried biscuits, usually salada, with sliced tomato. Diet & caffeine free soda. Water.

Afternoon tea: 2 slices thick raisin toast, little lite margarine. I have this at about 4pm because this is when I start thinking about picking at things. Water.

Dinnner: 1/2 serve Porterhouse steak, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery, capsicum, gherkins, pitted olives, egg beetroot and teaspoon lite cream cheese. Water.

Supper: Cup lite ice cream or piece of fruit. Green tea

I try to space the water out,  if I go shopping I tend to buy a large bottle and drink it as I shop.
Main thing is keeping portion sizes small. A MUST.

Portion Size And Will Power The Key To Weightloss

Tell me you haven't ever thought about your weight. I'm sure ever new years eve we all make resolutions about losing weight or keeping fit and healthy and some of us only last a week and then back to old habits.
I'm going to tell you how I lost 13 kilos in four months.

1. I STARTED WITH A FOOD DIARY: I wrote down everything I ate and drank for a week, from those lattes, to biscuits with a cuppa, chocolate bars that you bought at the cash register for the trip home. Everything that passed through my lips.
2. I ANALYSED THE DIARY: I looked at things that I did not need, I could not believe that I actually ate that much food in a week. There was so much that could be deducted from my diet. I was eating because I was bored most of the time and picking.
3. WORKED OUT WHAT SHOULD GO: I deducted potato, cheese and sugar from my diet. Anything that had sugar, cakes, biscuits,chips.lollies and chocolates. Cereals that contained alot of sugar and white bread. I actually cut out all bread for the first month then gradually brought it back eating wholemeal or grain, checking out sugar content first. Caffeine was another item that needed to go. Not that I drank alot of coffee but I read that it helped give cravings.
4. SIX SMALL MEALS A DAY: Breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. This is how I tried to discipline what I ate, sticking to these meal times.
5. MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT I DID: Reduce my portion sizes. I choose the smallest dinner plate I had and used it for all my main meals. Because it was smaller it looked full and gave me a sense of feeling satisfied. NOT FULL.
6. WEIGHING MYSELF: Now I know they say not to weigh yourself every day, but I found this to help keep me on track. I noticed a pattern and what to expect during different times of the month. For me this worked.
7. DRINKING WATER: I never have liked drinking water but I made myself drink 6-8 glasses of it every day. Sometimes I would use diet cordial to give it a bit of flavour.
8. VITAMIN REPLACEMENT: I take multi vitamin tablets religiously now. I feel good and have had no illnesses in the last six months.
9. WILL POWER,  WILL POWER, WILL POWER: Psych yourself up, get a picture of you at your worst and place it on the fridge. Have a picture of a really nice dress that you would like in a smaller size, put it next to the other picture. When you go to the fridge this will encourage you to succeed.

This is only some ideas that helped me to get the weight off. I'm still slowly losing it and feel that writing this will encourage me to keep going. I hope to lose another 6 - 10 kilos and then I will be happy with myself.
Don't get me wrong, it was not easy. I still have bad days where I broke my diet but I get straight back into it the next day.
Exercise doesn't come easy to me, gyms are out and so is running. Walking is the only exercise that I do and I don't do it every day, when I'm feeling up to it.
Hope I gave you some great ideas and an incentive to succeed at losing weight.

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