Hints, Tips, & Suggestions for Success...

Here some quick and easy tips that have personally saved me from derailing my weight loss efforts, especially with regards to the armband:

• Utilize a food scale to measure foods in which it is difficult to gauge calorie count.
• Pre-Portion meals/snacks to avoid "handful syndrome." 
• Every body's idea of "I just ate a handful" is different and leads to inaccurate food logging. 
• Eating Out
• Review menus online before you eat so you make a sensible decision not an emotional, impulsive decision.
• Get dressings/condiments on the side.
• Check nutritinal information online or via phone apps.
• Pay attention to portion sizes if nutrional information is not available. 
• Weigh yourself at a consistent time to reduce the impact of outside variables. 
• I prefer to weigh myself in the A.M. before I eat or drink anything. 
• Take into account what clothing you are wearing the first time you weigh yourself.
• Do NOT weigh yourself everyday.  Your body is miraculous, but outside variables (bathroom habits, food eaten, etc.,) can wreak havoc on your body's ability to process weight loss/gain on a daily basis. 
• Instead, consider weighing yourself weekly.  
• Utilize the calorie deficit/surplus sheet found in a post above.