Lesserterian

Lesserterians generally follow the 4W's principles of weight loss/control, being Weight, Water, Walk and Wonder.

Walk very day (or some other exercise), even if only 15 minutes or to a distant sandwich shop !!
Weigh yourself every day and keep it in a Graf. Send it to someone also doing the 4 W's Program - Accountability, Understand your range, same scales each day at roughly the same time
Drink at least 1.5 litres of Water per day - Stops the hunger feelings
Wonder (pre tense - "do I need it" or "shall I have a carrot instead of a ..", i wonder whether i will only have 1 instead of ... or in past tense, "should I have eaten it") - A quick Stevie saves embarrassment and needing longer walks. "I wonder if that extra one will make me weigh heavy tomorrow?"

An example wold be - Drinking a big glass of water, then walking to the bottle shop while wondering whether to buy 7 bottles for the week or just four, then wondering whether you need the packet of Pork Crackle while weighting in the queue!!

Simple rules to think about include:

Mind over Fatter
Less of Everything - Sustainable Weight Loss
Waste the Waist
Better Fed, Not Dead
Grow Old, not Cold
Feel Great, Don't Inflate
Being Porky, Makes you Dorky
Desert the Dessert
It is not worth the weight

Food tips include:

Eat everything you did at start of 4W's engagement, but in less quantities (small reduction at start). Hence the Lesserterianism !!
Hor d'ouves - Look at the chips, cheese or dip and wait until they are almost gone before you have any
If you drink every night, drink 5 days a week. Instead of 3 Tim Tams, have 1 etc
If you have chocolate every night now, have it 3 days a week
High fibre, high protein, high fat, LOW sugar (not NO, but LOW)
Flax seeds, almonds, Hemp Seeds on all sorts of things
Full cream milk, butter (not margarine), but less of both
Pizza without the base (eg just eat the toppings)
Long Macchiato if you are a coffee drinker (eg no unnecessary milk!!)
Work out what your treats are - have but less often (mine include BBQ shapes, chocolate bar when do shopping),
Psyllium husks on your cereal/porridge each day (Lowan porridge with honey, psyllium, flax, hemp seeds)

References[edit]

This article "Lesserterian" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Lesserterian. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.