| div id="body"> | | | | creating steady healthy eating patterns that are |
| Successful dieters are eating healthy to lose weight all | | | | practised every day of the week. Eat breakfast every |
| week! | | | | day. Eat a low fat diet every day. Eat an appropriate |
| Recognise this pattern: | | | | number of calories every day. |
| Monday: Start diet. Tell everyone you're going to lose 2 | | | | Having steady eating patterns means you give |
| kilos in 2 weeks on new diet. | | | | yourself the opportunity to get into the habit of healthy |
| Tuesday: Feel very inspired by new diet. | | | | eating. If the only constant about your eating patterns |
| Wednesday: Ignore temptations and feel very proud | | | | is that they're up and down, you don't have the chance |
| of self. | | | | to create long-term healthy eating habits. Forming |
| Thursday: Feel good, stick to diet. | | | | habits takes about thirty days, so breaking your diet |
| Friday: Tell everyone new diet is working, feel very | | | | every couple of days, or every weekend, is simply |
| impressed with self. | | | | self-sabotage. |
| Saturday: Deserve a reward. Reward self with food. | | | | It's true that dieting can be hard work and incentives |
| Sunday: After over-rewarding self, feel extremely | | | | keep you motivated. However, rewarding yourself with |
| guilty and swear to start new diet tomorrow. | | | | food defeats the purpose. Instead of giving yourself |
| A common trap for would-be dieters is erratic eating. | | | | the weekend off your diet, reward yourself with |
| That is, for several days in a row, dieters eat | | | | indulgent activities. Soak in a warm bath, listen to your |
| moderate portions of healthy foods according to their | | | | favourite CD without distractions or let someone give |
| healthy diet plan. Then they fall off the wagon, often | | | | you a massage. |
| magnificently, with a giant-worthy binge that sends | | | | Another advantage of steady and healthy eating |
| them dispiritedly back to zero. | | | | patterns is that your body gets a chance to work out |
| It's vital that you work on overcoming this well known | | | | what's going on. Your metabolism learns to anticipate |
| yo-yo effect. According to the National Weight Control | | | | the amount of calories it's going to get to burn and |
| Registry, successful dieters have a number of key | | | | level outs into a healthy balance. |
| factors in common. One of these is that successful | | | | So next time you feel yourself slipping off the healthy |
| dieters will follow similar eating patterns all week. | | | | eating track, remember you need longer to make your |
| What does this mean? Dieters should work on | | | | healthy eating habits permanent. |