Be a Loser

It's the Little Things That Count

Obesity Risk Factors

The Lost Legume

Basil's House of Herbs

The Red Hot Pepper

Relaxation Therapy

Do Fat Genes Equal Fat Jeans

Beat Weight Loss With Healthy Beets

Getting Bored Dieting? Perhaps You Need a New Diet Boogie Board

Weight Loss - Bold Basil's Bowl

Water Logged - drowning in too much H2O

Diet Vitamins - do they work?

 Causes of Weight Gain - Five tricky triggers of weight gain. Weight gain - it's sure fun packing on those pounds, but it's sure not fun getting them off.  While most of us have to be in the mood to lose weight, it's important that we make a strong effort not to gain MORE weight until we can lose that unwanted weight.  click to continue

Fruit Comparison Chart - Not all fruit calories are equal so we've created a nifty Fruit Calorie Comparison chart to help you make the best choices based on calories.   click to continue

Glass or Cup? - A surprising difference. click to continue

The Sonoma Diet - We've got the skinny on this hot new diet. click to continue

A Prescription for Weight Loss - Dr. Fink has just ordered Lindsay on a strict diet, telling her she's not only fat, she's obese.  Lindsay scrolls her eyes skeptically over Dr. Fink, locked in a sudden Diet Dilemma because Fink is twice her size... click to continue

Tracking Weight Gain.- Don't track and mope over weight gain - be the little Diet Engine that could!   click to continue

Constipation & Weight Gain - Are you full of .....well, let's just say unwanted baggage that is weighing you down? click to continue

The Hungries vs the Munchies

One of the keys to weight loss is the dieter's ability to determine whether they are truly hungry OR if they are simply fondling a box of the munchies.

It's a great challenge but we're here to help with a list of our best tips for distinguishing hungries from munchies:

The Truly Hungry Dieter Frankie

Dieter Frankie has a true case of the hungries.  His stomach is rumbling, his mouth is watering as he smells the fresh broccoli cooking in the kitchen.  The fact that Dieter Frankie doesn't generally favor broccoli BUT would be content to dive in, exhibits his true feeling of hunger.

Take a gander at Dieter Frankie.  He is so hungry that he is imagining that he currently has food in his hands.  Diet Bites recommends that he eat his broccoli soon - before a binge threatens - BEFORE Dieter Frankie gets so ravenous that he grabs cheese to smother his broccoli in, as well as a loaf of garlic bread, two roasted Cornish hens, a box of stuffing and a green olive.

The Truly Munchie Dieter Frankie

Dieter Frankie has a true case of the munchies.  He is searching through his Diet Universe for something to occupy his choppers - something to stuff into his little white powdered face.

 

His search is a diligent one because Dieter Frankie isn't in the Diet Mood for just any old food.  Oh no.  Dieter Frankie wants something that will last a long time - a long, long time - something like hot buttered popcorn.  Extra salt and extra butter, will you please.

But once Dieter Frankie douses the popcorn, he is still wandering loosely through the Diet Garden of Good and Evil, searching, looking, digging, scratching for something else that will satisfy his Case of the Munchies.

The trouble is that Munchies cannot be satisfied without first killing a productive diet.

 

The Tips

Before hitting the pantry and throwing your diet to the wind, check the direction of the wind.  You don't want anything blowing back into your face once you're done, particularly cheesy or gooey objects.

 

Ask yourself:

• Am I TRULY hungry?  

• Is my tummy growling?  

• Am I feeling picky about what I want to eat?

• What activity am I currently involved in?  Watching television?  Playing a video game?  Talking with my mother in law over the phone?  And does such activity prompt the munchies?

• Will a fresh fruit snack fill my urge to eat?

• Do I need to go ahead and just enjoy my next planned meal?

• How long until I retire for the evening?  If it's within the next couple of hours, you don't want food resting in your tummy while you are trying to rest.  The body needs to be at a level where TOTAL rest can be achieved so that you'll feel like a new Spring Diet Chicken come morning.

If you determine that you are truly experiencing a case of the munchies, then grab that fresh piece of fruit OR a stick of gum OR some raw veggies OR - well, you get the picture, you smart dieter you!

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