A New Year...A New You. Weight Loss Tips
As often happens this time of year, many people's thoughts turn to dropping those few extra pounds we accumulated over the past few months. To help make your personal goals a success, we would like to offer some weight-loss and health-maintenance tips.
9 Tips To Lose Weight and Keep it Off!
1. Follow a low calorie diet - 1400 calories per day
2. Follow a low fat diet - 29% of calories from fat
3. Track what you eat - Keep a food diary at least a few days each week
4. Monitor weight - Weight yourself at least one time each week
5. Eat breakfast daily
6. Eat In - Dine out less 2.5 meals per week
7. Limit Fast Food - Consume less than 1 fast-food meal per week
8. Minimize TV viewing - 62% watch 10 hours or fewer of TV weekly
9. Exercise Daily -Participate in one hour per day of moderate intensity physical activity
This information was collected from the national Weight Control Registry. Members of this registry have successfully maintained over a 60 pound weight loss for an average of 5.7 years.
To help you reach your goals, click here to access our website and view the many wellness and fitness classes we offer.
Sports Med Minute
Listen to our Sports Med Minute with Jeff Samyn, PT, and Dr. Todd Decker, (click here) Dr. Decker's practice is at Bayside Family Medicine in Petoskey and also is the co-manager of the Northern Michigan Regional Hospitals Medical Weight Management Program. He spoke with us today about weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. |
