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Eating To Lose Weight

Want to lose pounds?
Then you have to be willing to change your lifestyle.

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ets tell you what you can't eat
and when. You shouldn't elimi-
nate foods from your diet, you
should add foods."
Ms. Goldberg is a co-author of
the High Fit - Low Fat Vegetar-
ian cookbook. When it comes to
weight reduction, her number-
one recommendation is not to
diet.
"Ninety-five percent of people
who go on a diet go off their diet.
And the 5 percent that stick
to their diets can and do lose lit-
erally tons of weight on fad di-
ets, and usually put it all back
trition Secrets for Optimal on."
Health.
Ms. Goldberg and Ms. Price
What's the difference? Diets agree that a healthy approach
are temporary, restrictive, self- to eating is essential.
"Ask anyone who's not selling
denying. A healthy lifestyle is an
ongoing appreciation of life.
something about weight loss and
But aren't diet foods and they'll tell you the same thing:
healthy foods the same?
Eat a complete diet with whole
Not necessarily. Diet
grains, fruits and vegeta-
foods are restrictive and
tiles," says Ms. Goldberg.
T he
usually involve set menus
ingre dients
"If you eliminate an entire
or elimination of whole are cr itical. category of foods, say car-
food categories. Eating
bohydrates, you're really
healthy foods doesn't require
hurting yourself. Every
that you forego your favorites: fruit and vegetable contains car-
"That's called dieting. Healthy bohydrates. Eliminating carbo-
eating involves a change of hydrates goes against standard
lifestyle. Weight loss is the scientific knowledge."
bonus," says Ms. Price.
Leaning toward a vegetarian
Kathy Briggs Goldberg, a reg- lifestyle leads to permanent
istered dietitian working for the health and what Ms. Price calls
University of Michigan's pro- "waist management."
"This doesn't mean that you
gram in preventive cardiology
and community, agrees. "Food have to become a vegetarian, un-
is not our enemy," she says. "Di- less you want to," saysMs. Price.

his year, resolve not to
diet.
Ask a few people
what they'd like to ac-
complish in 1997; chances are
some form of diet or weight loss
is on nearly everyone's list.
But nutrition experts agree
that Americans are going about
this weight-loss thing the wrong
way. They're dieting.
"What we should be doing is
not telling ourselves that we
have to go on a diet but that we
must live a healthy lifestyle,"
says Beverly Price, author ofNu-

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Got
Top Ten ips

• Dump diets: They don't
work. Period.

• Eat a wide variety of foods.

• Eat less more often.

• listen to your body. Don't eat
because of
. (Fill in the
blank).

• Do some sort of physical ac-

tivity, something you really

like. Consider it part of good
grooming

• Plan activities into your va-
cations and time off: There are
more choices than ever.

• Be realistic. Set goals and
work with your natural abili-
ty to make change's.

• Stick to changes. Don't make
too many changes at once.
Gradual changes are easier to
learn and stick with

• Practice new behaviors.
You'll get better and better at
it.

• Stop negative self-talk. In-
stead of, "I had a terrible day,
I gave up," give yourself cred-
it: "In general, Fve done a good
job. Tomorrow I'll do better."

