Hi hippy,

Well you are getting married? Congradulations!

Eating habits are learned, and therefore so are all of the better eating habits. Many women eat better for themselfs when they are married. So this is a good time to undo the old habits.

When I first started watching my weight, I would count calories. Old fashioned calories. This helped me learn what types of foods had high fat content.

I bought a cheap pocket type calorie counter (with all the brand named foods) and looked up everything I ate. Then when I found it hard to stay in a certain calorie range, I looked at the alternative items in the book. I started reaching for the foods that had less calories.
An example of this would be the oreos. How many calories in just one? Then I would look at the others...maybe a oreo that was called low fat oreo...how many calories? So I would switch. I did this with each item I bought.

It took maybe a month of matching an alternative. Each time I took an item and switched, I came out ahead. I lost weight!

I felt so good...that I started doing just one exercise in the morning. Just one. After one week that one exercise was so easy, I did two different exercises a day. Like 5 jumping jacks, and 4 sit ups. After the week was up, those exercises were too easy, and I increased them, or added more.

This is the way I started hippy so many years ago. I am still thin, and have added a great many more ideas since then. It just started with the Calorie Counter, easy, inexpensive, and it works!

Hope this will help you break the ice. Whatever you switch, will be one more step to loosing your weight and keeping it off.

Good luck with your new habits!

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