Why the pounds are sticking around: Quick Tip #4

Even with the best of intentions, as well as an admirable amount of effort, the weight sometimes doesn't come off!! Try as you might to get the needle on that scale to budge even the slightest bit, sometimes it's just not having it. This is especially true for people who have already lost quite a bit of weight and are now trying to take off those last ten pounds or so.

To help you shed those stubborn extra pounds, here is a quick tip from an article titled "Scale Stuck?", which appears in this month's edition of Self magazine. I'll be posting one of them a day for the next 10 days.

Hopefully these tips will help you figure out what's causing those pounds to stick around.

Quick Tip #4

Diet Flub: You never count calories - You're all about portion size, but you never, ever take calorie count into consideration. A four-inch piece of fudge is pretty small, right? I think you see where I'm going with this.

Fix It: Log your food intake. If you know how many calories you've already consumed, you'll be less apt to eat more calories than you should be. According to the article in Self magazine, a study from the University of Birmingham in England confirmed this. Researchers found that women who were asked to write down what they ate for lunch earlier in the day ate less treats later on than women who did not write down what they had eaten. You don't have to go crazy about counting calories (breaking out the scale at a restaurant and whatnot), but you should at least keep them in mind. Logging what you eat will help you do this.