Feature article : Do You Have Stealth Fat?
So many calories slip down our throats and add to our fat stores when we're not even paying attention, it's criminal!
If you saw the amount of food that passes your lips over a week all at once you might be truly shocked and horrified. But you are probably blissfully unaware of that.
It's so easy to eat without thinking that you can easily eat a day's calories before half the day is gone and not feel like you have eaten much.. .
If you do nothing else this week to help yourself lose weight at least try and become aware of all that you are eating.
Notice the bits of food you pop in your mouth as you are preparing meals. And the food you eat from the plates as you are clearing the table (I know I have been there!).
Notice the food you eat just because it's there. The food you eat standing up at the refrigerator. The samples you try as you do the shopping at the supermarket. The number of times you say "yes" to food that's offered when you weren't even hungry.
Notice the extra food you eat at meal times beyond the point where your physical hunger is satisfied. Did you really NEED that dessert? (even if that dessert is an apple it might be a tiny apple a day too many that puts 5lb of fat on your body year after year).
Sometimes, these bits of food here, bits of food there are the difference between being slim and being overweight or obese. You are left wondering why you eat so little and weigh so much. It's fat by stealth...
And don't forget the "pounds of fat" that you are probably drinking every year in the form of soda, juices and milky drinks. Of course I don't really mean you are drinking fat (although you might very well be with the milky drinks) but you are drinking calories which turn rapidly into fat without even helping to fill you up.
And if you drink alcohol that has a double whammy of filling you out without filling you up - AND increasing your appetite for things you normally manage to say "No" to.
Make this an awareness week - until you are aware of what is going on - you can't change a thing!
Copyright 2007, Janice Elizabeth Small
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