Goals are good – 27 stepping stones to achieve your goal

For instance it is a problem if your goal is an event like a school reunion and the need to get into a particular dress. However, this event can be used as a stepping stone. Having a series of stepping stones can help you get to where you want to be – step by step, stone by stone.

Important steps –

1) Read more articles on NATURAL weight-loss – this will give you a much better and deeper understanding

2)  It really is well worth while filling in a daily food mood journal – the evidence has proven it helps in many ways

3) Relax and enjoy your food – this means chewing your food really well, most people don’t, there are so many benefits to chewing well

4) Be truly aware of what you are eating and how it might affect you

5) Don’t eat standing up or on the move

6) Don’t eat while watching TV

7) Don’t eat until you are full, wait just 10 minutes before deciding to have more

Do drink some water 20 to 30 minutes before a meal

9) Really taste your food – you could do an experiment of blind folding yourself and concentrating on the food you eat, this has a profound effect. Try it.

10) Do eat more during the day and less in the evening

11) Don’t go food shopping when you are hungry – research shows it make a big difference to what you buy

12) Don’t skip meals – eat on a regularly basis

13) Remember taste buds need a little time to be re-educated

14) Remember old habits die hard

15) Do have a positive attitude

16) Avoid all sugar and white rice, white bread, white pasta etc

17) ‘Carbohydrate’ is not a dirty word

18) If you have to have alcohol then only with food – ie glass of wine when you are actually eating, not before eating. Drinking before food messes up blood sugar levels more

19) See this as a new adventure – exciting new possibilities

20) You are NOT going to be one of the 95 to 98 % of dieters who put their weight back with time

21) Take care of your health and the weight takes care of itself almost

22) If you wear glasses for reading – take them to the supermarket with you -read ingredients labels

23) Essential fats are vital for weight-loss and health-gain, stay away from all processed fats

24) Do not chew gum

25) Do not count calories

26) Clear kitchen cupboards or pantry of any processed foods, any half used foods, anything almost out of date etc – start a new

27) Any clothes you have not worn for a year or two clear out of the closet, give away or throw away, making space for a new you. If you want to keep one or two things that didn’t fit properly, get then altered so they do fit