Granny Has Some Weight Loss Tips Up Her Sleeve

There must be hundreds of small weight loss tips that can be provided to anyone who is currently on a diet or trying to loss weight. I remember very clearly how my grandmother would provide all of us kids with various ways in which we could cut back on the calories. I would like to relate a few of Granny's tips here.

Granny never was much of a person to turn down cookies. In fact she would always encourage us children to eat a cookie in the evening. Most people think that when you are on a diet you should cut out all the high calorie items such as cookies but that is far from the truth.

Granny would tell us how the mere act of putting our favorite foods off limits would eventually lead us to what she referred to as "rebound eating". She would tell us that in place of cutting out her home made cookies completely we should merely eat a single one of her fresh baked cookies instead of a hand full. She would always lecture us that if we wished to enjoy our favorite foods we could do so and still lose weight but we merely had to do so in moderation. That was granny for you.

I never could understand why my mother never brought any of granny's cookies home with her. Instead we would have to go to grannies and eat them there. Finally I was informed that one of grannies favorite weight loss tips was not to eat the food at home. Never take home cookies or candy. We were always told that it was better to enjoy our treats at grannies house. Whenever we wanted a special treat mother would pack us all in the family car and tote us off to visit granny. I later found out that this tip from granny was the reason we make an adventure out of going out to eat. By making our visit into an adventure we never have to worry about the temptations relating to having the treats in the home. In the end it was a fun way to visit with granny as well as a unique way to try and lose weight.

Mini-meals were one of granny's favorite weight loss tips and I finally found out why they were important to her. Granny would serve us several mini meals each day when we would visit her. Finally she revealed the reasoning behind these types of weight loss tips. She would always point her finger to her stomach and remark that if we eat fewer calories than we burn then we will lose any extra weight. Granny was a wise women for she knew that it was a real challenge to go hungry all the time therefore it was her philosophy that we should eat 4 or 5 mini-meals each day.

In support of grannies actions recent studies have revealed that those people that eat four or five meals per day are much better able to adequately control their appetite resulting in better control over their weight. Let's chalk another one up for granny's wisdom.

In my eyes the best weight loss tip that granny gave to us was that we should eat protein at each of our meals. Once again granny would preach to us that protein would build strong bones and muscles in our little bodies and allow us to grow up strong and healthy.

Okay let's provide granny with another blue ribbon. She was actually very correct in her assumptions. Protein has been found to build up muscle mass and it tends to encourage fat burning. So all that yogurt, nuts, cheese, and beans that granny feed us worked very much to our advantage.

In conclusion all I can say is that if your granny tells you something is good for you then by golly she must be right after all mine was!