by Annette Hatton

Created on: June 23, 2010   Last Updated: June 25, 2010

28 M&M Diet Tips

“You have to walk the length of a football field and back to burn the calories in one M&M,” she said in her presentation at a Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) meeting to emphasize the damage done by a few empty calories.

The M&M Diet is born of that statement. The premise is to not eat that one empty calorie M&M in the first place. If you are use to eating dessert after a meal, a big bag of chips and a piece of pie before bed, think about the calories. A slice of Boston cream pie has two hundred ninety calories; a one-ounce bag of chips one hundred fifty and a piece of pecan pie five hundred. Not eating dessert, a bag of potatoes or a nighttime snack saves how many calories?

What about meals? Beef averages two hundred fifty calories per three-ounce serving, the size of the palm of your hand. If you are use to eating nine ounces, the size the palms of both hands put together, then cutting to serving size saves five hundred calories. How many calories does eating portion sizes save? It is probably more than enough to make your weight loss struggle seem effortless.

A pound of body fat is approximately thirty-five hundred calories. If you decrease your daily food intake by five hundred calories and exercise ten minutes per day, more than likely you will lose one pound in a week.

The M&M Diet is eliminating empty junk calories and cutting what you eat to serving size.

28 M&M Diet Tips

1. Cut one hundred food calories and exercise away one hundred calories a day and chances are you will lose about one pound every month, a rate many doctors highly recommend.

2. Lose weight slowly. If you lose weight too quickly, you lose water and lean tissue, not fat. With fast weight loss your metabolism slows making it harder to lose weight.

3. Decide to lose weight. Get that Barbara Streisand get down serious “The Mirror Has Two Faces” determination. Do it not to get Jeff Bridges to fall in love with you, but do it because you fall in love yourself.

4. Cut the mental fat that stops weight loss and adds stress such as gossip and back-fence chitchat, negativism. Change the patterns and habits that drag you down and get in the way of your success, such as procrastination, excuses and rationalization.

5. Be patient. Weight loss takes time; it is not an instant-gratification kind of thing. Best results come when you lose slowly so you can retrain your metabolism to function normally and work for you instead of against

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