1) Downsize your plate. Regardless of which diet we are on, calories do count and one way to cut calories is to just smallersize your plate, eat slower and enjoy every bite. If you still hungry afterward, you can always go back for more.
2) When dining out, remove a fourth of your order and put it in a doggy bag for lunch the next day.
3) Prepare for emergenicies. One day a week, fill the refrig with celery sticks and peanut butter, raisinsand unsalted nuts, stick cheese, jicama sticks, broccoli and caul chunks, hard boiled eggs. Then when needed pull them out instead of other high carb, high fat snacks.
4) Get some sleep, I just read an article about the lack of sleep and escalating rates of obesity.
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5) Take up a hobby that gets you out of the house and out of the office. It can be fishing, birdwatching, rockhounding, geochashing (thats not spelled right) volksmarching, hunting, fossil hunting.

So true...
Other things that help are eating slower, no multitasking while eating - it just doesn't register that you ate, eat things that really need to be chewed (mashed potatoes, ice cream and things you can gum to death don't fit the bill).
I went to Reader Digest's changeone.com & printed off their portion size guide chart. It uses the baseball, tennis ball, golf ball, deck of cards, CD & more for various foodstuffs. I can do that!!

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'these are very good points to follow. But i also want to add some views in it. Walk after each meal of the day. Dont sleep or sit after having food. Always try to move after your meals. second is dont drink waterimmediatelt after food.'

Why shouldn't you drink lots of water after food?

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1st Goal 187 (BMI 31) met 1/19/08 with Atkins
2nd Goal 174 (BMI 29)
3rd Goal 162 (BMI 27)
4th Goal 150 (BMI 25)
5th Goal 138 (BMI 23)
Summer Goal: 132 (BMI 22)