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Sep 16, 2016

Healthy Lemon Bars - A Low-Calorie Sweet Snack

Looking for healthy lemon bars? You'll like the baked lemon bars sold by Fiber One. They are low calorie and delicious.

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Sep 09, 2016

Quick Tip: Get the Junk Food Out

Many people think they'll use "willpower" and only eat that stuff in moderation and occasionally. What really happens (as it happened to me) is you end up binge eating it.

Of course, this sabotages all your hard work. You've been dieting and exercising... now you've just busted your diet with a bunch of sugary and/or fattening garbage.

My point is, why even subject yourself to temptation? Get rid of the bad food so you don't have to see it all the time.

For more of my thoughts on the importance of this tip, click the link below to visit my new page and learn more.

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Aug 21, 2016

Simple Trick to Stop Night-Time Eating

Well, I had the same problem for a long time. I'd get up at 2 am for a bowl of ice cream night after night. And I felt guilty every time, because I was after all trying to lose weight.

But then I thought of a super-simple way to break the automatic behavior that happened in the middle of the night when I was half-asleep. Leave a message to my night-time self!

And it totally worked. I don't have a problem with midnight snacking anymore. I've given it up thanks to this simple trick.

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Mar 28, 2014

Unsaturated Fat Foods, Listed by Food Type

Below I've posted a list of unsaturated fat foods. Very helpful when deciding how to include healthy unsaturated fats in your diet.

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Mar 16, 2014

Better site name: "Quick Weightloss Tips"

Just a quick note... my fat-loss website Easy Quick Weight Loss Tips now has a shorter, better name.

I've shortened the name to Quick Weightloss Tips. That's a lot easier to remember, I'm sure you'll agree!

Thanks for your patience as I migrate my pages over to the new domain name.

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Aug 05, 2013

Avoiding Temptation Beats Willpower

Willpower is wonderful, but most of us cave to temptation when the chocolate cake comes out. Strengthen your willpower, if you must. But in the meantime, take action now and REMOVE TEMPTATION.

A study published in the journal Neuron last month found that precommittment beats out willpower. In other words, if you want to avoid a certain behavior, you'll succeed best not through strength of will but by not even seeing the object of temptation.

Researcher Molly Crockett sums it up clearly:

The most effective way to beat temptations is to avoid facing them in the first place.

The lesson of this research: Don't fool yourself into thinking you can bring home junk food and then not eat it (or only eat small portions). Maybe you can, maybe you can't. Instead, a powerful way to beat cravings is to get bad foods out of the house. Even if that means throwing it all in the trash.

Before that box of donuts ever darkens your door, resolve not to buy it in the first place. If you really want to lose weight, clean out all the sugary, fattening, and salty junk from your pantry and refrigerator. And don't purchase any more.

Don't try to find "something healthy" on the menus of fast food restaurants. If possible, simply stay out of such places. "Out of sight, out of mind," as the saying goes.

Prove you're serious about losing weight. Not by constantly testing your willpower. But by avoiding temptation.

Reference: Crockett, Braams, Clark, et al. "Restricting Temptations: Neural Mechanisms of Precommitment." Neuron, 2013; 79 (2): 391 DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.028

May 03, 2013

High Fiber Foods List to Lose Weight

Check out the high fiber foods list I've posted below. Foods high in fiber can help you lose weight.

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Feb 19, 2013

Eat Foods that Increase Metabolism to Burn More Fat

Burn more calories by eating foods that increase metabolism! Here's a list of the best metabolism boosting foods.

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Nov 13, 2012

A Simple Diet for Losing Weight

A simple diet is the best diet. Why? Because the best diet is the one you can stick to!

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Nov 04, 2012

Exercise: Your Secret Weapon for Weight Loss

Many people hate to exercise. But if you really want to lose that flab you're carrying around, EXERCISE is the secret weapon you need to learn to love!

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