That's Fit

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 #8

Diet Flub: You taste while you cook - Now we're getting down to the minutia, I know. I realize it probably seems that way, but this tip does have merit. Even though those tastes of the pasta sauce, nibble of the chicken, sip of the wine, and handful off fruits may not seem like much, all together they add up to a fair amount of calories. If you're goal is to drop some of those extra pounds, the last thing you want to do is eat almost a meal's worth of calories before you even sit down at the dinner table.

Fix It: Occupy your mind with something else. Eating out of sheer boredom happens all too often, especially when our minds are free to roam about unsupervised. We mindlessly grab a bite of this, a handful of that, and a few nibbles of some of those. Making dinner, especially when done by yourself, can be a tedious process for some people. As a result, we snack. To that end, the best way to avoid this boredom-induced chomping from occurring in the kitchen is to keep your mind busy with something else. Try listening to your iPod, or working on a crossword puzzle (just don't get too caught up in trying to find a ten letter word starting with the letter C that is a beam supported only on one end*, or else you may accidentally start a fire). Also, according to the article in Self magazine, people tend to eat less if someone else is in the kitchen with them. Another strategy that may help is to keep a small dish of low-calorie vegetables handy for you to snack on, or even try chewing gum.

*Answer: Cantilever