How to Practice Waist Management

"Waist Management" is a dieting and exercising strategy coined by Drs. Roizen and Oz, authors of the bestselling "You On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management Book." This program involves eating healthfully and avoiding white and enriched flours and other food evils, all while exercising regularly. Here's how you can practice waist management--and watch your midsection shrink.

Instructions

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  Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, lean protein and whole grains. Fill your diet with wholesome, natural and unprocessed foods and you'll be practicing waist management.

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  Ban from your pantry high fructose corn syrup, enriched flours, white flours and anything made with trans fat or hydrogenated oil. You should eat very little sugar on this diet--if the nutritional information reports more than 4 grams per serving, it's too high sugar for this diet.

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  Be careful with your fat intake. It's OK to enjoy foods made with healthy, natural fats, like avocado, but saturated fats are to be avoided. Anything that has more than 4 grams of saturated fat is off limits.

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  Eat a big, healthy breakfast every morning. If you don't have time to sit down to a fluffy egg white omelette, blend yourself a smoothie made from fruit.

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  Get the right amount of exercise. You don't need complicated equipment to work out the Waist Management way. Walk for a half hour a day, lift weights for a half hour a week and eventually build up to working up a sweat for an hour once a week--which can be broken up into small increments each day. Make sure stretching is part of your routine.