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If you need to lose weight, more than likely you are thinking in terms of diet and exercise plans, not pets. There are, however, several reasons why getting a dog may be the best thing you ever do, in terms of weight loss. Having a dog can lead to several small but significant lifestyle changes that all add up, over time!

For one thing, a dog requires a minimum of one hour a day of walking – and that’s every day, not just sunny days, and not just when you feel like it. Of course, you can just take the dog into the yard and throw the ball for it, but why not take advantage of your canine companion and go for real walks every day? It’s better for you, and better for the dog. Over time, it gets to be very enjoyable.

Some people feel that just the act of getting a new puppy is weight loss measure in and of itself. Until it’s trained, it’s more than likely to keep you on your toes – you’ll be lucky to get a chance to sit down and eat, let alone cook! That initial crazy period usually ends pretty quickly, though. Besides walking, here are some other tips for easy weight loss with dogs.

Here’s a great trick – feed any bits of food you don’t want or think you shouldn’t eat to the dog. For example, I haven’t eaten a toast crust in over two years. I used to eat them just to be rid of them. It just seems wrong to throw them in the garbage, somehow. But feeding them to the dog is nothing more or less than symbiotic. You may not think this is a great weight loss measure, by the way, but I’m sure that all those crusts add up!

I must admit (and veterinary dog food purists, close your ears!) that it goes a bit further than that. What if you have made a yummy pasta dish, and there’s just a little left, not really enough to be worth putting in a plastic container and saving? If it’s not so good, I’d throw it out, but if it is good, that puts me in a spot. I’ll probably either eat it outright despite being full, or pick away at it over the course of a few hours until it’s gone. This can be avoided if you just simply and automatically give it to the dog. After all, dogs evolved alongside humans for millennia in exactly this way. They ate the leftovers of whatever their human companions were eating. Nowadays, the pet food industry cautions us against doing so, but if the food you’re eating is reasonably healthy, who’s to say that feeding small bits of it to the dog will do the dog any harm at all?

Personally, I have, on occasion, sunk even lower than that in canine gastrointestinal abuse. There is a brand of white cheddar popcorn, marketed as ‘Smartfood’ and sold in huge bags, with about a day and a half worth of calories in each. I love it. I love it so much I have been known to eat a whole bag over the course of a few hours. It’s delicious. It’s the kind of thing I should never buy a bag of. But if I do, and I’ve ripped into it, and it’s disappearing, I can do damage control by periodically pausing in my binging to tip large amounts of the popcorn into a bowl on the floor, where it is just as quickly eaten up by the dog.

It helps to have a big dog. I don’t know that any of these measures would work so well with a little one that can’t eat quickly. It helps, also, if the dog is at least half black lab. They are purported to have iron cast stomachs, rather like goats, and this has proven to be true in the case of my dog – as proven when, at the age of eleven months, she ate four tubes of oil paint, metal and all. She ate all the reds, yellows and oranges, strangely enough ignoring the cool side of the color wheel completely – and, amazingly, suffered no ill consequences at all!

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The problem with many diet and weight loss plans is that they take a one-size-fits-all approach that simply might not work for everyone. That’s why the same diet that you friend might swear by may not work nearly as well for you. Actually, looking at it logically, this is hardly surprising – everyone’s metabolism and, even more importantly, everyone’s habits are different. That’s why it makes sense to have a diet and weight loss plan designed specifically for you.

This is an idea that’s rapidly catching on. Companies such as L.A. Weight Loss and several others are taking on the challenge of designing personal weight loss plans for each of their clients. After all, everyone’s reasons for being overweight are different. For the most part, being overweight is based on bad habits. Some of us have the habit of eating late at night, while others are addicted to sweets or to fried food. You can try and eliminate the behavior, or course – but most often, that’s easier said than done.

A better approach might be to work around the behavior that is impeding your weight loss. For example, if you are one of those people who just can’t go without dessert, you will do better if your weight loss plan includes a daily dose of sweets. There are many low fat, fruit based desserts that you can have without ruining your diet, or if you really crave a decadent dessert, you can cut calories elsewhere or up your exercise to make up for it. You are less likely to cheat and more likely to be successful with your diet if these habits can be integrated in your diet plan – and most of the time, they can.

Here’s another example: we’ve all heard about how successful the low-carb approach to eating can be for some people. By upping their intake of protein and eliminating all processed carbohydrates such as bread and pasta, many people have had spectacular results. However, if bread and pasta happen to be your favorite foods of all – if you were raised with them and can’t picture living without them – you have little chance of being successful on a low carb diet such as the Zone or Atkins. You would do better, most likely, if you can eat small amounts of the foods you love every day.

Finally, there are some people who are overweight because they ‘graze’ all day long rather than sitting down to regular meals at regular times. This can be one of the most destructive eating habits of all, because it makes it very difficult to measure or keep track of how much food you are actually consuming. If those are your habits, your chances of being successful on any diet plan that restricts you to just three meals a day are quite low. You’ll constantly be wanting to snack, and you need a diet plan that allows you to do that. In fact, some dieticians feel that it’s better to eat many smaller meals a day rather than a few large ones. If you have an organized approach to your snacking, there’s no reason why you can’t maintain these habits but change the types or amounts of food you eat for maximum weight loss.

In short, the personalized approach to dieting and weight loss makes sense because everyone is different, and everyone has different obstacles to overcome. When you buy a diet book, though, chances are that you will learn about a one-size-fits-all type of dieting. If you go to one of the many centers that offers personalized diet plans, however, they will be able to design a plan for you that works with your eating style and habits, rather than against it. Combined with personalized counseling and regular weigh-ins, this approach to dieting has been very successful for many people. It’s easier to minimize the harmful elements in our habits than it is to do away with the habits themselves.

That having been said, it’s also important to have an organized, well laid out plan that you can follow. Many weight problems occur precisely because people don’t tend to have an organized approach to eating. When your plan is easy to follow and you have access to great advice in a supportive environment, chances are that you will be able to take off that weight!

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Curb Hunger and Avoid The Costly Binge

Everyone’s been there – you miss a meal or you
are getting used to a lower calorie phase of
your nutrition plan when the munchies hit. You
grab the nearest and quickest food available –
usually a high carb snack food – and you chow down.
And to add insult to injury you find yourself
hungry again just as quickly as someone who
didn’t snack!

The best thing you can do to avoid this is to
plan ahead and always have a meal ready to go
quickly. Sure, this can’t always be done but it’s
your best bet to avoiding binges.

When hunger pangs hit – DO SOMETHING! And I
don’t mean eat. Drink water, go for a walk, etc.
You’ll find that the hunger pangs subside in about
10 minutes or so – unless you’ve missed a meal and
are really hungry.

If you must snack, make sure to always have high
protein food available. You’ll stay fuller longer
as it takes your body more time to digest protein.

Try to keep some of these things handy -

Cooked kitchen strips – one cup has 38 grams of
protein and only 180 calories

Lowfat cottage cheese – one cup has 28 grams of
protein and 168 calories

A three ounce can of white-meat chicken has 14
grams of protein and 70 calories

Two sticks of string cheese has 14 grams of
protein and 160 calories

A full can of tuna packed in spring water – 37
grams of protein and 175 calories

Reach for the nuts. Keeping nuts around will
keep you from binging on high carbohydrate junk food
because they are just as convenient for when you
have to eat something now!

Nuts supply you with good fats that can lower your
cholesterol as well as fiber and important vitamins
and minerals. Make sure to select dry roasted
and unsalted. And don’t forget, even though it’s
high in good fats, that still translates to 9
calories per gram. Don’t every eat.

Gregg Gillies

Gregg Gillies is a speaker, consultant, fat loss expert, trainer and author. He teaches fitness via his articles, books and courses at his web site http://www.buildleanmuscle.com . He is the author of two books: Complete information on his books, along with lots of free articles are available at his site. And while there, don’t forget to sign up for his free newsletter, “Fit Physique”.

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