HOW I LOST 10 POUNDS IN 3 MONTHS

I know it sounds like a tabloid headline but what it says is true.  Matter of  fact, last week while coming through a check out line one of the tabloids’ headlines read “Lose 14 pounds in 14 days.”  But what motivated me to pull off a few pounds is my triglyceride level started to rise a little bit and since I wanted to lose some weight anyway this was something of a motivator.  

There are many books and programs advising various approaches to weight loss but the consensus now among all researchers and those in the know is you must have a comprehensive approach – using dietary changes, activity changes, behavioral changes and in
appropriate instances medication.

Here are a few things I did that at least for me made a difference.  I think the key to losing weight in any amount is to incorporate all these aspects.   
 
Dietary changes
    Drank only water with my lunch and dinner; no other beverage
    Added 3 fish meals per week (1 or 2 tuna, 1 or 2 catfish)
        (Bought economy bag of frozen catfish from Sam’s)
    Used Truvia® to sweeten my morning coffee (instead 
        of Splenda or sugar)
    Ate oatmeal for breakfast 3-4 times a week     
    Ate popcorn or banana for after dinner snack if hungry (instead 
        of cereal)
    Limited fast food to 2 meals per week

Activity changes
   Raked and picked up leaves in parking lot 45 mins 3-4 days a 
        week
    Worked in yard cutting grass, weed eating, trimming, edging, 2 
        days a week
    Used 3 lb barbells and worked arms up and down and in and 
        out during TV commercial breaks until commercials were 
        over or muscles tired
    Performed a 2-step on a stair during TV commercial 
        breaks until TV commercial over or legs tired

Behavioral changes
    Eliminated a mid morning nab snack
    Stopped regularly eating a snack before bedtime

Medication
    Doesn’t apply to me since my Body Mass Index (BMI) is under 30 

On May 18th I weighed 218 and now I weigh 208.

If you keep doing what you're doing, you’ll keep getting what you got.  If you keep eating what you’re eating, you’ll keep weighing what you weigh.  What you choose to eat today, you choose to weigh tomorrow.

Remember:
The same foods that you eat today
Can surely the next day make you weigh
The same you weighed the day before
Or at least as much, if not much more!