Thursday, October 13, 2011

Do skinny people do all this?

There was an interesting article yesterday in USA Today about long-term weight loss.

 You can read it here.

The takeaway was that there are certain actions that help people who have lost weight keep that weight off. Quoting the end of the article, I've pasted the list of actions below. What I'm curious about is  - Do those of you that have never had a weight problem do all or some of these or is it just not necessary for you? If you do any of these, is it an automatic thing that you don't even thing about or a conscious decision?  Or perhaps, is this list only is applicable to those with a weight problem in the first place?

Track their food intake.
Count calorie or fat grams or use a commercial weight-loss program to track food intake.
Follow a low-calorie, low-fat diet. They take in about 1,800 calories a day and less than 30% of calories from fat.
Eat breakfast regularly.
Limit the amount they eat out. They dine out an average of three times a week and eat fast food less than once a week.
Eat similar foods regularly and don't splurge much on holidays and special occasions.
Walk about an hour a day or burn the same calories with other activities.
Watch fewer than 10 hours of TV a week.
Weigh themselves at least once a week








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