1. Create a safe eating environment and a new mental environment
- Change how you eat, not what you eat
- The mind-set and the availability of healthy food often determine how much you eat
- The safer the environment and the better the food, the higher the satisfaction from eating
2. Change your schedule to make time for exercise
- Night owls can become early birds
- Be awake during the time when fewer calories are consumed
- Late night television usually means late night calories
3. Exercise
- Exercise 3 to 4 times a week for 30 minutes each day
- Walking is the easiest way to burn calories
- Early exercise starts the metabolism burning calories earlier
4. Think like a winner
- Stop the flow of negative thoughts
- Attitudes have power to help or to hurt
- Brains are reprogrammable computers
5. Change the feelings behind the feedings.
- Start treating yourself kindly
- Unhealed wounds are often medicated with food
- Trauma takes time to heal and process
6. Replace high-fat foods with foods that are lower in fat
- Finding low-fat, highly satisfying foods is a treasure hunt
- You can learn and practice new habits
- You really can change your tastes
7. Lower your intake of foods that are high in sugar
- Fat is the problem, but too much sugar turns to fat
- Eliminating sugar can eliminate emotional roller coasters
- You will decrease your ‘taste’ for sugar which will help decrease your intake of sugar
8. Eat more meals a day while taking in the same number of calories
- Eat breakfast
- The hungry feeling gets bigger the longer it goes without food
- Hunger feelings can be changed
- Fast food usually means fat food
9. Work on relationships with things and people – other than using food
- Connect in relationships that are safe
- Recognize the love of God in your life
- Resolve to become the best version of you
10. Find a person or a group to help you learn and be open and honest
- You can break the detachment mode -accountability produces awareness
- Learn a new way to approach life and gain tools to continue in the new path
- Connecting honestly with others helps us grow and be honest with ourselves
11. Be patient
- This is a process that will take a lifetime and will give you a healthy body for life!
- There are no quick fixes which last
- It is worth taking the time to practice a healthy lifestyle
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