(1) Your daily food plan is built around your favorite vegetable. Try several and remember to make it as delicious as possible. You may have several vegetables that you love. If so, rotate them daily. Eat this if possible between 11 AM-4 PM. This vegetable has to be a large enough serving to totally satisfy you. I count 300 calories for my sweet potato because I cover it in margarine and dark brown sugar.
(2) Determine the food problem that gets you into trouble. Most of our overeating comes because we don’t discipline ourselves about the calories we are eating. Learn to read or research the calories in everything you eat. This page will teach you how to read labels.
(3) Also decide what type of eater you are. What one thing do you not want to live without? For me, it is having food to chew. Apples are always in my refrigerator for a sweet chew—at 100 calories each I sometimes have several over a day.
(4) When you are feeling emotional, you need to drink as much water or other liquids as you can to delay the eating. If you aren’t hungry anymore which is what will happen, give yourself permission to eat the food later when you are hungry. Be sure to have your 100-200 calorie foods always available. Don’t sabotage yourself.
(5) I created a Greek salad that is low in calories for my non-sweet chewing. I cut up the ingredients and keep them separated until I eat some salad. Without the dressing, the ingredients will last several days. I write more about this salad in my food plan.
(6) I dislike the word “diet” because it sounds like deprivation to me. Food is one of God’s greatest gifts and is meant to be enjoyed. Food is the basic reward for many people. So begin noticing when you are eating emotionally and drink more water before the food
(7) Having been born in 1940, I bought into that “you have to have breakfast” so this was a revolutionary idea to eat when hungry. I live with a slim person who generally doesn’t eat until his evening meal. I have nagged him for years about not eating all day and he has always assured me that he wasn’t hungry. In the meantime, since I had to eat “healthy”, I was eating food that I neither needed or really wanted.
(8) Since my overeating occurs at night, the later I start eating means I am eating less than I would be if I ate at any time I wasn’t hungry. Another of the 7 rules from The 7 Secrets of Slim People is to think of your fist to learn portion control. The fist is the size of your natural stomach.
(9) Begin learning portion control. If you check out any of the more popular diets with food included, you will see that the main reason you lose weight on these programs is because you are eating much smaller portions. The High Energy Diet does the same with one major difference. You will choose the foods you love and will learn how to eat them in moderation.
Make a list of all the foods that you love and enjoy. After you have the list finished, make a food list of 100-300 calorie foods. Include these foods in your weight loss plan. The foods that you know you may not be able to use restraint with put on your “foods for the future –to be used with moderation” list.
The differences between the High Energy Diet and other diets are:
1. Changemaker is a weight management program. We focus on calorie count, exercise, and mental and emotional techniques to help quiet the mind and soul.
2. The exercise is built around a total exercise program that includes endurance, balance, strength, and flexibility exercise. The exercise is more like playing and adds fun and relaxation to your life. You choose the types of exercise that you want to do.
3. Changemaker offers the basic plan of portion control but the food is built by you around those basic portion sizes.
4. The Changemaker Plan allows you to choose the order of your food and suggests that you find substitutes for the foods we use in case you don’t like our recommended foods.
5. Changemaker has no recipes because Changemaker is about weight management.
6. The Changemaker Test is available on our blog, answersbyemail. You can learn ten of your personality labels and what they mean. The test can be reused to help others to learn his/her personality labels.
7. The Changemaker Test includes labels for family roles, NLP (neurolinguistic programming), birth order, emotional energy, and MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). These labels are recommended as the basis for the Changemaker Groups available at changemakergroups.
8. Changemaker gives you all the tools necessary to begin organizing your own support group among the people that you know.
9. The Changemaker Groups may be organized for anyone wanting a support group to learn about themselves and their eating patterns. The groups will add community to your weight loss plan.
