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Linda Spangle:
Most people average only three to four weeks on a diet before they fall off the wagon. In spite of your good intentions you’ve got to have something that helps you stay on track.

Linda Spangle, author of the book, 100 Days Of Weight Loss has some great suggestions to help you stay on track and really help you lose the weight this time.

One of the best things to start with is asking the question, “ Am I interested or committed to losing weight?” You see if you’re just interested you’ll stay on your diet until something better comes along, like the donuts at the office. If you’re committed, you say, “You know what, I’m going to do this no matter what”-and it really helps you stay stronger on it.

It’s also essential to get the support of people around you.

I call it, "train your family"or "train your support people" about what you need. And that’s as simple as saying, “You know what will really help me is: don’t eat in front of me or don’t leave open bags of potato chips on the counter and certainly don’t ever say, “Should you be eating that?”-Because of course that just makes us eat more.

Linda says, remember the five-hour rule.

You know the longer you go without eating the more hungry you get which absolutely also makes you lose more of your control. If we get way over-hungry we tend to eat too much and do not care. So, I tend to suggest that people never go longer than five hours between at least some kind of meals or snacks.

Tomorrow, more ways to help you stay on track- I’m Mike Carruthers and that’s Something You Should Know.