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You call it dieting and your body calls it starving. When you go on a diet your body doesn’t know that you are trying to squeeze into your favorite pair of shorts from last summer or protect your from your death from starvation. So your body reacts the only way it knows how; it hoards the calories you give it.  If you are a chronic dieter who has been starving you have a tendency to eat excessive amounts after you are “allowed” to eat; you  have trouble concentrating and you Obsess (with a capitol O) about food and eating.  How do you know if you are dieting too much? Do you freak out if your scale shows an extra five pounds? You are diet obsessed.

Dieting be done. Music to my ears is when my clients say, “I feel like I am eating all the time and I am losing weight.” This week I’ll share tips to get your body bathing suit ready.

Eat breakfast

Eat breakfast. Eat breakfast. Eat breakfast. It gets your metabolism going. Your body is like a furnace. Breakfast starts your body working on your behalf burning calories. When you don’t eat breakfast studies have shown you have more episodes of eating. People eat due to the increased number of times they expose themselves to food.  Who eats breakfast? The National Weight Control Registry of 3,000 people who have lost sixty pounds and kept it off for six years eat breakfast.  I think eating a few slices of whole grain toast with peanut butter is easier than doing a cardio workout.  Get going. You have heard this for years. Just do it! FYI always include some protein.

Do you always eat breakfast?