One-Step Easter Eating Plan: Let Your Fork Do the Heavy Lifting
Don’t want to be the FAT bunny this Easter?
If you’re committed to hosting the Easter Egg Hunt, you will face a never-ending array of tempting food choices. If you’re not careful, the pounds you add are likely to become lifelong companions.
Some of us are very strict about our diets. We bring our own food in a plastic container and eat it while others enjoy the holiday fare. Others of us are perhaps a little too self-indulgent, denying ourselves nothing.
Carole Carson
—dubbed “An Apostle for Fitness” by the Wall Street Journal—is the coach for the AARP Fat 2 Fit online community and the author of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction. Carole offers one simple step you can take at parties that will help you minimize your caloric intake:
—dubbed “An Apostle for Fitness” by the Wall Street Journal—is the coach for the AARP Fat 2 Fit online community and the author of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction. Carole offers one simple step you can take at parties that will help you minimize your caloric intake: Eat nothing except what you can put on a fork.
In other words, eat foods only where you can sit down and use utensils, including your fork.
The calories in those bite-size nibbles and finger foods you eat unconsciously while standing and talking with friends and acquaintances quickly add up. You can easily consume 600–800 calories solely from appetizers. The same holds true when you are preparing food for your own party. The little nibbles you take to “test” your appetizers count, as far as your body is concerned.
By limiting yourself to food eaten with a fork, you can minimize the accumulation of unwanted pounds during the holidays. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful weigh to start having fun this spring?
The Chief Blonde Says:
The Chief Blonde Says:
From Fat to Fit:Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction by Carole Carson is a FUN read. You can’t say that very often about a diet book. Written by a 60-something dynamo, Carole describes how she took her 5′ 1″ frame from 182 to 120 going from a size 18 to a size 6. Then she went on to inspire a whole town to shape up losing 4 tons in the process. Doesn’t sound like your average diet book, right? The difference I see here is that it is the story of a personal journey versus an expert advising from afar. She details all her funny stories along the way. Carole is so inspirational she now teaches her approaches and has appeared on the NBC Today Show, CBS’s Early Show, MSNBC’s Countdown.
by Carole Carson is a FUN read. You can’t say that very often about a diet book. Written by a 60-something dynamo, Carole describes how she took her 5′ 1″ frame from 182 to 120 going from a size 18 to a size 6. Then she went on to inspire a whole town to shape up losing 4 tons in the process. Doesn’t sound like your average diet book, right? The difference I see here is that it is the story of a personal journey versus an expert advising from afar. She details all her funny stories along the way. Carole is so inspirational she now teaches her approaches and has appeared on the NBC Today Show, CBS’s Early Show, MSNBC’s Countdown.Carole Carson, as a weapon of Mass Reduction AND a Woman over 45 (like we are) is truly an inspiration! Keep up the great work Carole.
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