Tips to keep that weight on

When we made our weeks’ worth of dinners (together) we would come up with stuff to post on our kitchen refrigerators to keep us in the mode. Here are some of them – when you read them, you will realize how true they are.


Tips to help you stay overweight

1. Shop for food on an empty stomach, almost anything is tempting when you are hungry.
2. Always have high calorie foods on hand and keep them in areas where you overeat because you are not thinking.
3. Never eat on an empty stomach, in fact never have an empty stomach.
4. Eat even when you are NOT hungry. Don’t bother to wait until you need some energy, but eat until you have very little energy for anything else
5. Be sure to clean your plate. Remember when Mom made you eat everything because people were starving in other countries? Clean your plate and everyone else’s to make sure it is all gone.
6. Be compulsive about food. Whenever the urge strikes you, EAT. Don’t stop eating when you are full. Keep on eating until you are overstuffed.
7. Eat very fast. So fast that your body doesn’t have time to let you know you are full. This allows you to eat much more than you need to
8. Always count calories – but stop counting at 5000 per day as long as you continue eating
9. Concentrate on other things while you eat. Watch TV, talk on your phone, drive – keep your mind busy with other things and you’ll never realize how much you have eaten
10. Eat instead of doing other things. Substitute food for: chatting with a friend, solving a personal problem, tackling a difficult project, work, fun, socializing, facing yourself.
11. Think of “diet” as a four letter word for deprivation, starvation and depression. Go on and off diets as easily as you go on and off a bus
12. Avoid mirrors, scales and old clothes which my reveal any possible weight gains. Out of sight – out of mind
13. Always start your diet tomorrow so today you can eat as much as you want.

These “tips” were found (and adapted for our own weight problems) from a book by Fredrick Stare called Dear Dr Stare: What Should I Eat?

We would make sure they were easy to find in a place we looked at a lot - the refrigerator.