the possible dream
When it comes to losing weight and improving your health, denial and discomfort is the only path that most of us know. But the truth is, you can achieve maximum satisfaction from what you eat, lose weight and improve your health at the same time.

There are five essentials for losing weight and keeping it off. Achieve these and you are well on your way to a happy healthy life.

1. make every mouthful a taste sensation!
The key to any successful diet is satisfaction. You can’t starve yourself, or eat foods you don’t like, and expect to lose weight and keep it off. And food satisfaction begins with taste.

Research shows that when a person is fed through a feeding tube and experiences none of the pleasure of taste and texture in food, satisfaction is delayed. And when satisfaction is delayed, hunger is not satisfied, so we keep eating.

When we enjoy foods from the very first bite, hunger subsides more quickly. The key is learning to enjoy the tasty fruits, vegetables and carbohydrates that are so good for you and help you lose weight.

We enjoy access to a large variety of fresh foods than ever before. The key is to learn to really enjoy what’s good for you and avoid what’s not.

2. when it comes to your stomach – “Fill’er up!”
There’s good news for dieters. The best way to lose weight is on a full stomach!

Filling your stomach sends a message to your brain that “no more food is necessary.” Hunger subsides. Satisfaction takes over.

But learning to fill your stomach with the right things is the key to losing weight and keeping it off. Your stomach can hold about two pounds of food. Rather than fill it with two pounds of beef for a total of 2,900 calories try two pounds of broccoli that totals just 273 calories.

You get the picture—the more fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains you use to fill up—the fewer calories you’re dealing with – not to mention the health risks of fat and cholesterol.

3. focus on fiber
Of the five major components of food only three contain calories – protein, carbohydrates and fats. Fiber and water, the 4th and 5th major components of food, contain no calories. Here’s where your focus needs to be if you want to lose weight.

Fiber not only satisfies your hunger without calories, it enhances digestion. Fiber also binds with water to increase the volume of food, which in turn brings satisfaction sooner and with fewer calories. Fiber also slows digestion enough to prolong the feeling of fullness.

Studies have shown that high-fiber diets improve the body’s capacity to use energy. Because starches, vegetables and fruits are high in fiber and water content, make them your foods of choice to lose weight and keep it off.

4. control the villain insulin
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate the amount of fuel in your bloodstream. Eating causes your pancreas to produce more insulin.

When you don’t eat, your insulin level fall and allows fat reserves to be burned as an energy source. When you eat, insulin simultaneously causes an increase in fat production and fat storage.

Obese people generally have elevated blood insulin levels that promote hunger and cause them to eat more. By eating high-carbohydrate, high-fiber, low-fat foods, you lower your insulin level and help it work more efficiently.

5. celebrate your success – it can last a lifetime
You’ve heard the horror stories. One of these may be your very own. That amazing liquid diet melts away 40 pounds. But once you’re off the liquid, you gain back 60 pounds! Through an intensive, costly weight loss program, you lose 50 pounds within 12 months you’ve gained back the 50 and added another 10. The weight loss/weight gain cycle can be devastating to your mental and physical well being.

But when you change what you eat and how you eat for good permanent weight loss is possible.

Learn to enjoy what is good for you. Celebrate each milestone – the first 10 pounds, halfway to your goal and finally achieving that optimum weight.

Then, maintaining your weight loss is simple. Keep doing what you were doing. Enjoy the flavor of the health foods you’ve learned to love. Be sure you fill up your stomach with what’s good for you so you won’t be hungry for what’s not good for you. Focus on fiber – it helps you keep weight off and does wonders for your health. And control your insulin levels by staying away from fats.

You’ll be a new person. Healthier, Happier, And energized to be more like what God created you to be. Celebrate life. It’s God’s incredible gift.

hour-by-hour tips to control your weight!

Delight thyself also in the Lord;
and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way into the Lord; trust also in him;
and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:4-5