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Bad Foods vs Good Foods - Which foods are bad and which foods are good? Sometimes it's good to be naughty. continue

7 Hot Tamales - Is your diet a real gas in a bad way? The reasons why and how to turn down the gas while your weight loss scales deflate. continue

Weight Loss, More or Less - Is your diet working, more or less? continue

 

Is Your Diet Worth its Salt? - How monitoring salt intake may help drop those extra pounds while increasing level of health. continue

Organizing Your Diet Plan - You don't have to be a closet organizer, a desk organizer or a fashion accessory organizer to be a Diet Organizer. It's easy and we'll show you how organizing your diet can equal impressive weight loss results quicker & easier. continue

March Diet: Baa OR Roar? - Is your diet coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb OR coming in like a lamb and going out like a lion? How to make your weight loss scales roar with sheepishly delight. continue

Can You Feel the Weight Loss Tonight? - Although weight scales are hip when it comes to determining weight loss, a drop in the number on the scales isn't the best indicator of 'fat' loss. continue

Weight Loss Tips for Teens - An increase in weight loss surgery for teens is increasing, an indication that obesity isn't picky when it comes to its victims. While drastic measures may be necessary for some teens, our savvy weight loss tips can trim pounds quickly and safely without the use of a knife. continue

Complete Proteins - How to use food combining to create complete proteins. continue

Weight Loss Coach Advice - Tom & Sky provide some savvy answers to common dieting questions. click for entire article

Weight Loss Hot Spots In Diet Plans - Seven hot spots that may make the difference between Diet Success and Diet Failure - such as too much exercise.  Ooh - this could get good.....  continue

Weight Gain Cycle - Will Somebody Get Me Off This Crazy Ride? continue

Starbucks Calories, One Innocent Peek, Diet Scarred for Life - Starbucks has many great choices for dieters. The key is knowing the nutrition content beforehand. View Bakery Items | View Starbucks Calories in Coffees/everages | View Starbucks Cheesecakes

Calories in Eggs, Omelets and Eggs in the Low Carb Diet World - Check out our Egg Directory for the answers to these topics and more. click to continue

The Food Pyramid - Serving sizes and a picture of the official Food Pyramid. Dieting never looked so good. continue

Hip to Waist Ratio Weight Risks - More than ever, it's important to be 'hip'. continue | Hip to Waist Ratio Formula

The Transfer of Trans Fats - A study resulted in weight gain with trans fat consumption, even when calorie levels were maintained. But even more disturbing was the distribution of fat. continue | Foods Highest in Trans-Fats

The Fast Food Diet - Fast food can be an option for dieters. Diet Bites provides Calorie-Wise selections for dieters. continue

Daily Diet Makeover - How to cut calories and fat without giving up favorite foods. click to continue

Oh, Those Confusing Labels - How to make mincemeat out of dough wads. click to continue

Food Association - Just the smell of fresh popcorn can trigger our food desires. But something deeper and dearer to the heart may be our strongest trigger for eating. continue

Fast Food, No Whining & Dining - Your Diet Guide to Fast Food Dining - If you’ve been led to believe that dieting means weeks on end without so much as a wink at a Fritoe Burrito, then open the door and come on inside. Don’t fret – there’s no cover charge and our fast food diet planner is totally free.   The ‘No Whining & Dining’ was written especially for you! click to continue

Is Your Diet a-Workin' or is Your Diet Hardly a-Workin'?

From Potato Chip Kicker to Glass Blower,

we'll show you how to hit Diet Pay Dirt. Pay off is swell....

This morning, I watched in awe as a doctor on television spoke to an audience filled with overweight seniors and severely obese individuals as he instructed them how to lose weight. Although I assume that the thin doctor is exceptionally bright when it comes to book-smarts, it would have been easier for the audience to round-up a herd of wild bucking bulls than follow his extensive advice.

In a capsule, the advice included a plethora of exercise, as well as severely cutting calories - including counting every morsel that passed through one's lips - to which shortly, I switched off the tube. I sat there thinking amid the silence, "No one gets it, do they? Not even many supposedly-brilliant doctors. No one appears to be in sync with what overweight individuals are battling in their effort to ditch those unwanted pounds."

Fact is, the number of overweight individuals in the world is increasing - not decreasing, yet for the most part it's the same old advice when it comes to dropping excess weight. What is needed is a new tactic - a new strategy to win the obesity battle. It's something that we strive to do at Diet Bites day in, and day out - to provide original, interesting weight loss tips that will shake up good results, whether it's health-related or weight-related results. If weight loss tips, menus, recipes and advice isn't doable in the common individual's daily routine, then it's just not going to work over the long-term.

Sure, an individual can take this good doctor's advice and exercise their little brains out - if humanly and physically able. They can count every morsel of food they eat as he recommended - and tally up the calories on their portable mini-abacus. And in doing such, the odds are extremely high that this approach to weight loss will fall to the wayside very quickly - like a roman candle. This approach to weight loss is just not fun. It's just not real. It's just not a good pairing with everyday life. It's just not doable over the long-term for most individuals seeking permanent weight loss results.

And for the overweight individual when trying such advice, the stress related to being overweight shifts to the stress of being able to perform strenuous exercise while watching every dot of food they eat. It's overwhelming. It's overpowering. It's consuming. It's controlling. It's just not doable.

So what does work when it comes to weight loss success?

So as not to sound too derogative towards 'diet-oriented' doctors and health professionals, recommending a reduced calorie diet along with an exercise plan is paramount to achieving weight loss success. However, in order for the advice to work, it must be doable. Running until one's tongue is hanging out only to feast on a plate of parsley and boiled carrots just isn't going to work when it comes to defeating obesity.

- It's better to have an activity goal of walking a couple of times per week at 15-minute intervals and sticking with it rather than attempting to exercise 30 minutes per day, then discarding the routine after a couple of days, weeks or even months. Most individuals can't run like spotted apes at 30 minute intervals.

- It's better to cut back to single-servings at meal time and to switch to fruits for snacks than it is to go on a calorie-restrictive diet where one is continually adding up calories, only to discard the diet shortly after it begins.

When gazing into our Diet History, these modern-day recommendations for weight loss can be mind-boggling. I daresay our Great, Great, Great Grandfather Eli set aside 30 minutes to one hour per day to perform aerobic exercise much less embraced some of the hideous, untasty Diet Food concoctions created in today's world. In the good old days, most of our ancestors got in plenty of daily activity and had no need of dieting.

But somewhere along the way, exercise routines were developed - windmills to wind off pounds, sit-ups to flatten the tummy, leg lifts to trim the thighs and butt lifts to achieve a hole in one when it comes to weight loss results. And rarely do these new-fangled exercises work to achieve long-term weight loss success.

How can you make your diet and exercise routine doable to achieve weight loss success?

Weight loss is a day-to-day process that must be approached with this in mind: "I must alter my current daily diet and activity level to achieve permanent weight loss." Little things add up to big results when it comes to weight loss, such as in opting for great-tasting foods that are good for you. Here are just a few examples of little changes with big rewards:

Become a Potato Chip Kicker - Grabbing onto a banana rather than a few handfuls of chips from a bag saves mega calories and fat. Three handfuls of potato chips contain about 300 calories (about 100 per hand - of course, size of hand plays a role) whereas one big banana hovers in at around 100 calories.

Become a Glass Blower - Juices, although originating from a healthy base, contain a plethora of calories. Rather than one cup of grape juice which can hold 160 calories or more, opt for a cup of grapes and cut calories by 2/3'rds. Or, enjoy juices in moderation.

Kick the Can - Sodas and beers, including lite/light beers, are hefty in calories BUT it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy your suds. Reach for a can of diet rootbeer or diet cream soda instead.

Cut the Cheese - Cheese is like sugar, salt and fat, very tasty and very addictive. But the last time that I looked, cheese is still considered a dairy product by the good old USDA - so yes, it's a great food even for dieters. Although 6 ounces of shredded cheese loaded inside your favorite cheese enchilada isn't going to cut the cheese when it comes to weight loss, opting for lighter versions of cheese can when enjoyed in moderation. If you're a cheese lover, try opting for Kraft Mozzarella sliced cheese at 60 calories per slice.

Desserts Spelled Backwards is Stressed - In order to achieve weight loss, it doesn't mean that you have to dig a giant hole and bury all your favorite foods while singing a teary-eyed version of "Goodbye My Love". And this includes favorite desserts. The key is to identify the desserts that you find most charming and become aware of the number of calories contained therein so that you can adjust your diet to fit in these favorites when the time arrives.

Dodge the Doughwad - Bread has been going out of the bread baskets and into the trash basket in droves these days due to the popularity of carb diets. Whole grains are important part of the daily diet until they are drowned in butter, jam, cream cheese and cheese. However, a dab of butter, a dab of jam, a dab of cream cheese and a slice of skim mozzarella cheese make mighty-tasty, mighty-friendly-to-the-dieter additions to bread and can fit well into a healthy daily diet.

The Fat Vat - Fried foods take a toll on the daily diet in the form of - you guessed it, FAT. Fat is ultra high in calories, not to mention what it can do to a perfectly good artery. However, enjoying those favorite fried foods every now and then isn't as likely to kill your diet as when fried foods are banned from the diet. Yes, it's true - no matter what you've been led to believe. When a dieter is able to incorporate familiar foods into their daily diet, they are more apt to achieve weight loss success. It's all about moderation and making wise, healthy choices.

In Summary

If your weight loss menu isn't doable every dang day, it's just not going to work over the long-term. If you're one of the lucky ones who manages to lose to goal weight, if you don't have a strategy in place for managing weight on a daily basis, that unwanted weight is likely to return.

Put aside some 'alone time' where you can sit down and think about the foods in your current diet that may be presenting obstacles when it comes to weight loss. How can you manage these foods so that your daily diet will be doable so you will achieve weight loss success, as well as a healthier body? Some examples may include:

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