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Whenever I hear someone say they just can’t lose weight, the first question I ask is if they are eating their fruits and vegetables. Only one person has ever said yes. The rest have given me a litany of excuses about why they don’t – with the leading reason being, "I don’t like vegetables".

There are a lot of reasons why you want to eat right.

You’ll Look Better

Your skin is an outer reflection of how you treat your body. Not enough water? Not enough sleep? Not enough nutrients? It all shows on your face.

Weight Loss

Obviously, if you were eating right, you wouldn’t be over-weight. That’s a given. But it’s more than that. It affectsyour self-esteem. It’s devastating to your body. So much more is coming to light about how being overweight, and lack of nutrients over time are causing a shocking increase in debilitating illnesses.

Health

Are you sick often? Both of my sisters are. You guessed it – they don’t like vegetables. But what’s more startling is the number of people who are getting the so-called lifestyle illnesses – type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Other aging related problems could be decreased, if not stopped all together by changing to a healthier lifestyle.

Energy

If you don’t have the energy to do more than sit on the couch in front of the television now – what do you think the quality of your life will be when you’re 70?

Ok, You know all the reasons why you should – but you just can’t seem to get yourself past the time and taste issues. Let’s start off small. Here are some easy tips for getting your fruits and vegetables in everyday.

* Drink one glass of fruit juice or a V8 everyday.

* Eat a piece of fruit every morning with breakfast. Not for breakfast – WITH breakfast.

* Eat 1 cup of dark greens everyday. It could be leaf lettuce(no head-lettuce!), or spinach, or broccoli. Top your salads with carrots, tomatoes, dried cranberries,almonds, onion, broccoli, whatever?. Get creative! There’s another couple servings. It could be as simple as cut up broccoli and some salad dressing to dip it in. I personally like Catalina Light for my broccoli. Try it! It worked on the kids.

* If you really can’t spare the 5 minutes it takes to cut up vegetables, there are tons of already cut and bagged varieties. Just rinse and eat.

* When planning dinner, plan your fruits and veggies first.

The good news is – you can eat as much of these as you want. Try a loaded tossed salad, fresh green beans, with maybe some cantaloupe, or pineapple, or honeydew, or strawberries, or grapes, and a nice grilled chicken breast. Add one carb – baked potato or sweet potato, rice, French bread, or garlic bread made with olive oil instead of butter. The whole meal takes about 20 minutes to prepare. It’s a lot of food, and it tastes good.

You’ll find that these dinners are really a breeze to make and they’re inexpensive.

Change the order of what you eat. Eat your fruits and veggies first. If you leave anything on your plate, it should be the carb.

And here’s a couple more tips to help you get that leaner, healthier, great looking body-

Drink a full glass of water every couple of hours to keep your body hydrated and working at peak performance levels.

As a rule, don’t eat after 8 PM.

Get up and move after dinner. Go for a walk. Walk the dog. Vacuum. Play catch with the kids. Just do something.

Just these few small changes can make a big difference. Try it out for a couple of weeks and see what happens. You’ll be amazed at how much better you feel.

Carole says – "Diet, Schmiet." Once you have a Thin Attitude, you’ll laugh at the word diet. No more ridiculous diets, pills or yucky potions. You’ll never need these crutches ever again. Find out how you can get a Thin Attitude here – http://ThinAttitude.CommonSenseLiving.com

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Sometimes it’s good to just let the feelings flow. Take out a piece of paper and just start writing your feelings down on paper. I do this when I start to feel overwhelmed. We all have certain tendencies and mine is to put too much on my place (food or otherwise), then when I’m upset because I have too much (to eat, too much to do), I feel hopeless. It’s too much to handle, and I just don’t know what to do.

First write down some ideas for using with EFT, starting with whatever is on your mind

:

I waste time
Wish I wouldn’t
Can’t help it
Can’t seem to lose this weight
I’m getting bigger by the minute
It’s hopeless
Makes me want to eat
Hate this

Exercise: Deep breath in, imagine a stream of golden light coming in to energize and feed you, then as you exhale imagine blowing all the negative energy associated with the first item on your list (“I waste time”) out in a conscious stream in a dark colored stream. Maybe you exhale bubbles that then explode as they’re floating away. It feels good to breath in energy and exhale toxins.

Now, what to put in that negative energy’s place? You can’t simply stop an activity, you must replace it with something else. If you want to release a negative thought or idea, then consider what positive or different thing you’d like instead.

It’s common for us to discount all the things we’re doing for ourselves such as eating better, exercising a bit more, walking, enjoying other’s company, and to put our attention only on the ice cream we ate last night. “I shouldn’t have eaten that! Why am I so stupid!” We seem to love bashing ourselves over the head with our inadequacies. I’m not sure why we do this, but it is so common that we all could probably benefit from a quick clearing of that notion:

“Even though I bash myself constantly over the head, I deeply and completely accept myself anyway.”

“Even though I’m not perfect and probably never will be, I deeply and completely accept myself today and every day.”

“Even though I wish I knew all the answers, I’m willing to give myself time to learn.”

“Even though I want it now, I deeply and completely accept myself and am willing to accept this day with thankfulness.”

Those little things you’re doing are adding up to the changes you want to make. Have you seen those time release photos of a flower blooming for instance? If you sat and watched, it would seem as if nothing is happening, but if you saw a timed series of photos over a 24 hour period played in a 30 second span, then you’d see rapid change. Our weight changes are like that too. I know when I look in the mirror I want to see something different, but it’s usually the same old me staring back. I stand and check my profile, and that too, seems the same, no matter what I did yesterday, so it can be easy to think, “What’s the point? This isn’t working. I want a donut,” and right back to old habits we go.

If you commit to one day at a time you will get there. Remember there’s always One More Bite – an hour from now, later today, and tomorrow there will be another bite. If you remember there is always One More Bite later, you’ll not have to eat every last bite right now.

EFT helps you work on the day-to-day issues, those little things that bother you, that drive you to eat to feel better. Work on them as they arise, and slowly you’ll begin to dissolve more and more bigger issues without even trying.

~~ Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, EFT counselor, author of the free e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight Loss, and owner of OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

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