FEED YOUR BODY RIGHT: SMALL CHANGES MADE A 147-POUND DIFFERENCE
A routine visit to the doctor totally changed Tammy Munson’s life.
Tammy, a 33-year-old resident of Jamestown, New York, admits that she knew very little about good nutrition when she was younger. Even though she routinely ate high-fat foods such as Buffalo wings, pepperoni pizza, and french fries, she couldn’t understand why she kept packing on the pounds. “I just didn’t know any better,” she says. By age 21, she weighed 253 pounds.
Then, during a routine checkup, Tammy found out that she had alarmingly high blood pressure. The news jolted Tammy into action. Determined to slim down, she began paying more attention to her diet. She switched from 2 percent milk and regular sodas to skim milk and diet sodas—and lost 30 pounds. She had never considered how her beverage choices contributed to calorie intake. This surprised her so much that she decided to learn everything she could about healthy eating.
“I went to the library and signed out every nutrition book I could find,” she says. “I was determined to make better food choices so that I could lose more weight.” She also read dozens of cook-books and discovered how to turn fat-laden recipes into nutritious meals with a few simple ingredient substitutions.
All of that reading transformed Tammy’s eating habits. Within about a year, she lost a total of 147 pounds. And she has stayed at era’
106 pounds ever since, thanks to 12 years of healthy eating. ”
WINNING ACTION
Find out what you’re really eating. For one day, write down everything that you eat and drink, along with the fat and calorie content of each item. At the end of the day, add up your numbers. Surprise! You’re probably eating more than you realized.
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