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Learning how to lose weight and chew gum at the same time
eat, drink
how much I should walk, and right now I
try to do some kind of exercise every day.
I weigh myself every day to avoid
& be healthy
gaining weight back, and I chart it. Not
for everyone, I know. The holidays and
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this cold weather messed up my chart. So
I’ll be taking my own advice here to lose
JENNIFER LARUE HUGET
a couple of pounds and be at my target
weight of 127 for 5-foot-2. Good luck. I’m
cheering for you.
Kathy Hyndman, Chevy Chase
e Minus 10 got off to a
M
rocky start two weeks ago:
No sooner had I pledged As a personal trainer (who is a senior
to lose 10 pounds than I citizen), I usually don’t respond to
got a GI-tract malady and articles of this genre; however, because
then a wicked head cold (both now your article was almost spot on, I
resolved). Neither helped me mentally thought that I would help you by sharing
or physically. Nor did learning, upon some pertinent info related to your plan.
purchase of a new scale, that I have 12, a71 Eating nothing three to four hours
not 10 pounds to lose to get to 135. prior to going to bed is more specific and
“Mindless Eating” author Brian effective [than “No eating after dinner”].
Wansink and colleagues interviewed a71 I am not a proponent of keeping a food
me about my eating and exercise journal, as it can become obsessive and
habits and then devised my Mindless then counterproductive.
Eating makeover. They suggested that a71 Weight training is an excellent
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s addition to your program. Stay with the
online planning tool MyPyramid Menu squats, one of the best exercises you can
Planner might show where I’m do, and they work your bottom.
overindulging in treats such as cheese,
ARLEN SCHUMER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
a71 Don’t allow snacks, except for fruit and
nuts and martinis. It did; I’ve cut veggies, in your house.
back.
Two things I’ve learned since launching my Me Minus 10
Best of luck.
Wansink also had me choose three campaign to lose 10 pounds before I turn 50 in December: Ken Garvey, Fairfax Station
small changes to adopt this month. I
Many people want to lose 10 pounds — and many would like to
can pick different ones next month,
but three changes are about all he says
have cartoon images made of themselves! I’ve received tons of
I applaud you having the goal of losing
a person can realistically make at
great feedback; here are some of your letters.
that last 10 pounds before you turn 50. I
10
once. I chose to: (1) chew gum while
— Jennifer LaRue Huget
am a certified personal trainer and have
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doing the dishes so I don’t sneak a few ideas that will help that weight loss
11, after-dinner tidbits, (2) stop after happen!
every treadmill mile to do jumping I am in. I am well past 50 (57, to be I recently passed the 60 mark after 1. Add strength training to your
jacks or squats and (3) replace so-so precise, and recently retired after a losing 10 or 15 pounds in my 50s. I’m so routine at least twice a week. Do
cheese with highly flavored varieties, a lifetime of working) and also have glad I’m thinner, because I feel healthier exercises that work both your arms and
,
MARCH
little of which goes a long way. accumulated an extra 10 pounds that than ever and I look younger. Here are a legs, and use a weight that has you
Y
A
I’m happy to say that these changes unfortunately have become very much at few tips from this side of the decade fatigued by about the 12th repetition.
are going mindlessly well. Still, the home. They think they live here. I don’t you’re approaching. 2. Change your exercise program. Your
scale hasn’t budged. But neither has see myself as a 142-pound person and do I also did smaller portions of regular body has adapted to your routine
my resolve. not want to become my mother, who has food, ate whole wheat wherever possible because you’ve been doing it for a while.
THURSD
localliving@washpost.com gained about 50 pounds on her 5-foot-3 and lots of fruits and vegetables. I don’t Some new things to try are exercise
• frame and is really suffering with eat much red meat, either. The food videos, swimming, bike riding, jumping
diabetes, aching joints and an inability to journal idea from the “French Women rope or dancing.
fit into anything remotely cute. Don’t Get Fat” book helped me, even 3. You need 1,200 milligrams of
I know what to do, but it is really hard though I kept the journal only for a calcium a day. Calcium regulates leptin,
to do it. A snacking problem is my couple of weeks. It really showed me which is the hormone that controls
biggest stumbling block. Looking where the calories were coming from, appetite. Your body can’t absorb more
forward to your articles. Let’s do it. particularly those glasses of wine and than 500 mg of calcium at a time, so
Jenny Pate, Springfield snacks in the evening. So I quit drinking you’ll have to take it over the course of
(sigh) and broke my evening routine. the day.
ASHINGTON POST
I’ve used a pedometer to get a sense of Nancy Karabaic, Silver Spring
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