Low-Calorie Dieting for Dummies
Chapter One
Living a Low-Calorie Lifestyle
In This Chapter
* Making initial decisions about how much weight to lose
* Experiencing a new low-calorie way of life
* Winning at losing weight with great tools and techniques
* Sticking with the plan through trials and tribulations
On any given day, one out of four Americans is doing something to try to
lose weight. They change their diets, join gyms, swallow pills, and even
undergo elective surgery in a never-ending attempt to shed those excess
pounds. In spite of all these efforts, relatively few people are successful at
losing weight and keeping it off. Most diets and weight-loss gimmicks are, at
best, short-term solutions for weight control, and short-term means it's only
for now, not forever.
By definition, your diet is simply the food you eat from day to day. With or
without a plan, you could be following a vegetarian diet, a low-fat diet, a high-fiber
diet, or a low-carbohydrate diet. Whatever it is, your current diet is how
you choose to eat. A low-calorie die ... read full excerpt from Low-Calorie Dieting For Dummies ebook
