What are you doing the rest of your life?

1. Do not undertake a fitness program unless you plan to make a life-long upgrades in your eating and exercising habits.

2. Write a life plan. Examine the health and physical condition of older family members. If their condition is not desirable, strategize your course of action not to avoid ending up in the same situation.

3, If you're not a recreational exerciser or "fitness nut," approach consistent fitness as a hygiene habit. Since it's not something you do for fun, find a time-efficient means of deriving maximum benefit per time invested.

4. Be patient yet persistent Physicians recognize that it is difficult to correct any derangement at a rate faster than it occurred. Take allergies for example; the best known cure involves one year or more of weekly injections.

Key Points on Eating Habits

1. Eat smaller meals more often. The same calorie level doled out in 5 or 6 portions per day stores less body fat than the same calories in one or two meals.

2. Base your plan around foods that are as unprocessed as possible. Processing greatly increases calorie density. With unprocessed foods, the problem becomes getting enough calories.

3. Keep records. Weigh and/or measure foods and count calories. This awareness leads to becoming a good Calorie Intake Manager.

4. Synergize. Make use of the following strategies to expend or limit calories.

• Superhydrate; drink at least three liters of cold water per day.
• dress cool/sleep cool; shivering burns calories.
• Perform light activity while digesting your largest meal of the day;  i.e. walk, stroll, vacuum or be in motion immediately after your evening meal.
• if you are going to be faced with temptation, eat 1/2 cup of all-bran or or fiber-one and drink a liter of water before hand.