NOT RESOLUTIONS
But before I deal with some Predictions for the coming year I do want to deal with the most popular New Year’s Resolution this year and in years past and that pertains to dieting / losing weight.
And I have the diet or should I say ‘non-diet’ for you.
I have my daughter Natalie to thank for the information I am about to impart and she in turn, I know, would thank Dr. Yoni Freedhoff founder and Medical Director of Ottawa’s Bariatric Medical Institute.
Dr. Freedhoff is also the author of the much read and applied book The Diet Fix.
If Natalie was writing this blog she would quite rightly go into heaps of explanation and background on what Freedhoff’s method is but since I am a bottom-line type of guy … I will keep it very simple for you.
In essence it is all about counting calories.
I can hear you now – hey Galagher isn’t that what most diets are all about?
And they are, but the truth of the matter is – if you take in more calories than your body needs, you will gain weight. Full stop.
But counting calories is where the similarity ends. And you do not have to exercise!
So here are the 5 Steps:
1. Figure our how many calories your body needs per day – data for this can be found on the internet. For me it is 2,000 per day – For a woman it would be around 1,500.
2. Subject to step 5 – try not exceed your daily allotment.*
3. Break up your eating into breakfast (350 cal); mid morning snack (200 cal); lunch (450 cal); mid afternoon snack (200 cal); and supper (800 cal). (note if female, reduce these numbers by 25%).
4. Try to include protein with each snack / meal. Protein keeps you satisfied and that, with the numerous food breaks, keeps you from craving more than your daily allotment. For instance, for a break you could have a protein bar many of which have 200 or even less calories.**
5. If at the end of a day you have ‘blown it’ ***– simply dust yourself off and begin anew the next morning. I find that any weight you gained will come flying off.
Notes:
* When I say have whatever you want – that’s true but realize your body needs its fair share of fruits and vegetables many of which are low in calories anyway.
** I am now aware of how many calories are in the foods I eat – and give as an example my shopping for hamburgers – regular PC hamburgers each have 400 calories while its ‘blue box’ hamburgers have but 200 calories and taste better ! Yogurt has much less calories than regular ice-cream and so on.
*** Eat what you want regardless of how many calories but just be aware of how many calories you are consuming. That knowledge itself, along with the frequent number of meals / snacks will lead you to the promised land.
I would normally end with saying Good Luck to you – but you won’t need it.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
