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Eat several small meals a day, as it help you to lose weight. Eat just enough, to get to your next meal. It givs your body a chance to burn off some calories, and it takes a half hour for your brain to signal your body that you are full.

I also worked out, at least three times a week at MVP. I walk ten minutes to warm-up, lift weights, as much as my body will allow me to, and 45 minutes on the cross trainer, that's 5 miles.

Lifting weights helps a lot, as you burn calories after you finish lifting, for the rest of the day. When you do aerobics, as soon as you step off the treadmill, that's all the calories your going to burn, period.

Push-ways from the dinner table,is the best exercise in the world.

Exercising, without having control, of how much you eat, is pure folly. IMHO

Look at desserts as they are poison, also will help. Eating real food, will help as oppossed to processed foods, in controlled portions.

The absolute key is, "controlled portions". That's why "Lean Cuisine" ars so small, but they are processed foods.

Another trick is to eat off of smaller plates as the food will look larger. The reason why so many people overeat is, because when one is a small child, their mother's put too much food on their plate, and psychologically, one is conditioned to look at the amount of food on their palte and thinks, "this is what it's going to take to fill me up.

Now, don't all you mother's get mad at me, as this was in a book written by a doctor, and given to my niece as she was 135 lbs, at 8 years old. She is now thin and never had a eating problem, after she lost all the weight needed.

Don't think in terms of diet, but in a lifestyle change. Diets, are doomed to fail. One needs to assess what is required to make a permanet change, going forward. you will be surprised at how much you lose your craving for foods that are not good for you, when you start eating healthy.

Just one person's viewpoint, as I have lost a lot of weight in my lifetime, but only kept it off, when I started eating several small meals a day.

Again, portion control and lifestyle change is the keys.

I just fell off my soapbox, and can't get up. HELP!!! LOL