1.) Listen to your body. Stop eating when you feel satisfied.

2.) Eat smaller portions. You will in time become full eating less food. This will help you to become smaller. Remember, eating large portions will make you larger.

3.) Drink plenty of water.

4.) Avoid high calorie drinks!

5.) Avoid foods with a high fat content.

6.) Eat a slice of 100% Whole Grain Whole Wheat Bread with Extra Virgin Olive Oil before your meal. The bread will help fill you up and the oil will brake down the food for quicker processing of the body.

7.) Take your time.

8.) Include green vegetables and fruit into every meal. Fruits and vegetables help the body to heal, as well as become healthy and thin.

9.) Exercise every day. Choose an activity that you enjoy and make it your daily routine. Exercise does not have to be hard; it can be easy and gentle to your body. Exercise helps your metabolism to work properly in the process of burning fat during and after. It also improves mental health and well being.

10.) Set mental goals to lose weight. Pick easy goals, baby steps that will help you to feel good and positive about weight loss.

11.) Visualize yourself thin. This can be very powerful and motivating. Remind yourself daily with positive affirmations that you will lose the weight, day by day, step by step. The mind believes what you teach it.

WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT LOSING MONEY

Chemical energy is stored in chemical bonds, and there are a lot of chemical bonds in fat. So, if you are overweight, you contain a lot of stored energy.

1.) The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. This means either eat fewer calories, or exercise more. Do both!

2.) It is not how much you eat that puts on the pounds, but what you eat a lot of. You cannot get fat on a mostly raw food diet. This means you can eat all of the raw veggies, sprouts, salads and fruits that you want. You don’t need to be hungry while losing weight.

3.) An easy way to lose weight even if you don’t want to become a raw food vegetarian is to become a regular vegetarian. Meat contains fat, and even lean meat is over 10% saturated fat. Drop meat, and you drop weight or try eating more fish and or skinless chicken, but not fried!

4.) Another easy way to slim down: skip desserts. Doing so could result in a one-pound-a-week weight loss. Remember that it means 10 pounds off in 2 1/2 months; over 50 pounds in a year. End your meal with fruit. Yes, they do contain sugar, but no fat. Just try eating two handfuls of raisins or dates.

5.) Sweeten with honey or molasses. Again, these are sugar sources but healthier for you.

6.) Want to control your appetite without even giving up dessert? Eat dessert first. If you eat a bit of sweet food about 15 minutes before your meal you will eat less at the meal. This is at least partly because appetite is linked to blood sugar levels. Do you remember what your mother said? “Don’t eat that candy now; it will spoil your appetite.” Very true!

7.) Yoga stretches are one of the best forms of exercise to do. Learn some basic yoga.

8.) Did you know that a mile of walking burns just as many calories as a mile of running? And the walking is easier on your knees and ankles. Get out and walk daily.

9.) Good weight loss need only be one, perhaps two, pounds per week. Crash diets often crash right back, with weight gained back almost as quickly as it was shed. Take your time.

10.) The ultimate weight loss plan is vegetable juice fasting. It is nourishing, safe, and feels great. As with any weight loss diet, vegetable juice fasting results in permanent weight reduction only when combined with regular exercise. Exercise seems to reset the appetite at a lower point.

11.) Remember that if you walk away from all of this at some point, you have not failed. You only fail by not coming back. We’re in no hurry. Nature has been patient with us for years.

There is no trick to losing weight. It is simply a matter of deciding to, knowing how, and following through. The side benefits are tremendous: more energy, better self-image, and a longer, healthier life.

Taking care of you naturally, the way life was meant to be.