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Instant broth cubes are superb for quelling an appetite and they cost you only about twelve calories a cup. You can also carry them to work with you or, if you don’t have boiling water available, make them up in a thermos to take along. They are also nutritious whereas coffee and tea will do nothing for you in terms of building health and beauty. Herb teas (no calories) are also excellent although they don’t give you the same full feeling that broth does. They can be sweetened with a teaspoon of honey, which is an excellent source of essential trace elements such as zinc, copper, iron, manganese, and chromium—often in scarce supply in ordinary slenderizing regimens. My favorite drink is Perrier water, chilled if you wish, but it doesn’t taste the same. Perrier or soda are also nice mixed with fresh fruit juice (half and half). Water can help you not to be hungry too, for it flushes out the acid from your stomach and helps wash out excess salt from your system, which can contribute to water retention.

Creating some new eating habits will help your weight loss too. Chew all your foods very slowly. The slower you go the better will be your digestion and the fuller you will feel from everything you eat. Don’t drink alcohol. Don’t put any extra salt on your foods at the table. Five minutes before sitting down to a meal, try drinking an eight-ounce glass of ice water. It will help eliminate the feelings of hunger so you will want less when you actually begin to eat.

Do you need to Take Supplements?

Probably. Unless you are in the country and practically live on fresh vegetables from an organically grown garden and untreated meats and poultry from the local farms. A multipurpose vitamin tablet is useful. It can be bought from your local health food store. It should not have minerals in it, however, for multimineral tablets contain copper, which is not usually needed in supplemental doses and can cause harm in excess. And do look carefully at the vitamin section to see what your personal supplementary requirements might be.

A group of supplements for “rebuilding” such as the one is useful on a weight-loss regimen. In particular, zinc and B6 are important.

Brewer’s yeast and yogurt are musts for dieters because lots of B- complex vitamins help to maintain your mental equilibrium and keep your energy level high. Eating yogurt—provided too you get plenty of roughage in your diet from raw fruits and vegetables or bran—promotes the health of intestinal flora, which produce the important B groups of vitamins in the body. Liver is another useful food for dieters. It is high in vitamin A, the B group, and many minerals. Eat it often in small quantities. Finally, sprouted seeds and grains eaten raw are the supreme diet food of all time. They are totally alive, full of vitamins and minerals in a concentration you won’t find in any other food, and a wonderful source of the eight essential amino acids in a high-quality form. One of my favorite meals is a bowl of low-fat cottage cheese on which is sprinkled a mixture of sprouts; mung beans, lentils, alfalfa, wheat, or whatever I have, topped by a shake of garlic powder or a couple of drops of Tabasco or fresh herbs. It is completely satisfying and such a concentrated source of nourishment that it is hard to believe it is so low in calories.

Get Into an Exercise Program

Not all slenderizing is a question of eating less. Exercise plays an important role too. Regularly indulged in, what exercise does do is decrease the appetite. Britain’s most well-known researcher in obesity, Dr. Gaston Pawan, has also found that, “with regular exercise not only does energy expenditure increase and all-over bodily functioning improve, but the metabolic substrata shifts so that you are able to mobilise fat quicker.” Exercise also helps reduce anxiety and improves your mental state and helps you stop thinking about food all the time. Numerous experiments with overweight people have shown that a reducing diet plus a program of regular exercise make a far more effective weight control program than diet alone. Spend half an hour a day on your own exercise program —running or bicycling, swimming or dancing, or even simply stretching exercises done on the floor of your bedroom.

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