Second, Dr. Oz suggests you work out in the morning, before you eat breakfast because then you are burning fat instead of what you just ate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. That makes so much sense! Some trainers tell you that you need to have a little energy to help you work out, but if you do, make it something tiny, just to tide you over. You can get used to eating later once you get into the routine. It’s not that hard. And you should not be drinking energy drinks, they are just sugar, which means you have to burn more calories.

Small snacks – about 15 minutes before a meal, you should have an apple or other small high-fiber fruit. When you have this, you will have a tendency to eat fewer calories during that meal.

Also suggested are specific times to eat meals, 7:30 AM, noon and 6:30 PM. These are the times our bodies are naturally the most hungry.

Our naturally occurring levels of melatonin, the hormone that makes us feel sleepy are the highest at 10 PM, which means we should be falling asleep then to maximize our ability to fall asleep. In general, if you miss that time, you start craving the carbs!

He said a lot more, you can see the video here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthyLiving/video/lose-weight-around-the-clock-13155977

I am not a doctor, but some things you just know are wrong, and this is one of those things!

Click here for the article from the New York Times.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/paul-mckenna-hypnosis-supercharge-your-metabolism

This doesn’t work with diet drinks, which trick your mind into wanting to consume more sweets!

See this segment on The Today Show: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38829351#38829351

I recently went gluten free after my daughter was diagnosed with Celiac. By the way, the medical doctor, Roshini Raj,  interviewed on this segment says that Celiac is a “true allergy”, which is not true, and she must know this. It is an autoimmune disease, with much harsher implications on health and well being. Anyway, I was sure I didn’t have celiac, but I stopped eating gluten because I wanted to see how hard it is to do and let me tell you, it’s HARD to do. I noticed as time went by that the arthritis I had had for decades was lessening, and my very itchy skin stopped being so dry and itchy. I now can’t be tested unless I went back on wheat products, but I don’t want to, so I will just take it on faith that I have a problem with gluten.

Roshini Raj, the medical advisor for Health Magazine, (see her bio on this page, halfway down) seemed to poo-poo eliminating gluten as a stupid fad and not a way to lose weight. But let me tell you, I can no longer mindlessly eat the bread served to me at restaurants, or the chocolate chip cookies served at parties, and hundreds of other foods. So it does keep me on the straight and narrow to some extent!

Most flour in foods in the United States, is bleached, and no one has ever studied the effects of bleached flour on our bodies. I think it probably has some bad effects, evidenced by this trend to eliminate it. Maybe you should try it!

See the video segment here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38656063#38656063

So how do I handle this? I have decided that I should work harder not to eat the first one. This works sometimes, but of course, not always. My husband likes to bring me chocolate, which I adore, because  he equates sweets with love. I have asked him not to do this! But he does it anyway. SO I just ate about 6 malted milk balls. Ugh. They are delicious of course. Tomorrow, I am not going to eat any. I hope.

My first problem with this site is that I think it is overstating the number of calories I need to lose the amount of weight I want to lose in the next six weeks. Other sites I have used to enter my weight, height, sex and daily activity level have suggested the amount of calories I need each day are less, like 500 calories less.

My second problem is that I had a hard time finding the amount of calories they suggest I burn in an average day, how much I should be eating to lose weight and how many calories I have left in a given day. Their “calorie balance equation”, which tells you the calories you burn minus the calorie restriction to lose the amount of weight in your desired amount of time, is here: go to the “Weight Goal” tab. At the bottom of the page are a set of 6 tabs. Go to the tab that says “Calorie Balance”.

1. You have a much better chance of doing some moderate activity if you get off the couch.
2. You are not subject to the very bad ads for junk food that get into your head and make you crave junk food.
3. You can’t be watching TV and snacking if you are not watching TV.
4. People who watch 2 or more hours of TV per day eat 7% more calories, which is certainly enough for a steady weight gain.
5. If you are going to be sedentary, dive into a great book instead, it is good for your brain.

This article says weighing yourself every day is a key to long term weight loss, which means I am going to have to do this in spite of freezing to death while doing it. Maybe I could indulge in setting the thermostat higher, but I like to be cold when I sleep.

We have two kinds of finer to choose from. Fruits tend to have fiber that absorbs water on the way through your body and so helps with  softening stools. Nothing like constipation to wreck your day!

The other kind of fiber just adds bulk, and is present mostly in whole grain foods.