Keep a Journal
This is the most proven method for helping you recognize bad eating habits and change to new, healthier ones.

Plan Your Meals Ahead of Time
This makes eating healthy easier by setting up your meal choices ahead of time.

Always Combine Carbohydrates with Protein and/or Fat
This slows absorption and keeps blood sugar and insulin levels on target.

Add Cinnamon
With as little as 1/2 tsp. a day, cinnamon can improve insulin function, keeping blood sugar levels reduced.

Drink Green Tea
One cup of green tea 5 times a day (or the extract according to directions) can help you burn more calories and lose weight.

Eat Five Fish Meals a Week
Not only an excellent source of protein, fish is lower in calories and high in omega-3 fats that support fat burning.

Carry Your Snacks with You
Being without food when you are out and hungry can be sabotage to your diet.  Successful healthy eaters carry bottled water, fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts, yogurt, turkey jerkey and/or protein drinks or shakes.

Eat Breakfast Within One Hour of Waking
This will be sure you always kick-start your metabolism for the day.  Otherwise, your body may go into 'fat storage'.

Avoid Trans Fats
Known in many packaged foods as 'partially hydrogenated oils', your body does not know to use these artery clogging fats for energy.

Increase Your Meal Frequency Without Increasing Your Total Caloric Intake
Try to eat smaller meals more frequently throughout the day.

Increase Your Vegetable Intake
Remember that vegetables are "free" foods when it comes to counting calories.

Always Exercise to Your Maximum Potential in a Minimum Amount of Time
When weight training, push your hardest on 1 or 2 body parts for 35-40 mins.; cardio workouts should be at a maximum potential for 20-30 mins. three times a week for best results.

Get a Resist-a-Ball
When you have to sit still whether at your desk or in front of t.v., sit on an exercise ball.  You'll get a continuous balance workout and burn a few extra calories.

Post Inspiring Reminders
Put up pictures of what you want to achieve physically, as well as sayings that inspire you.  Post on your refrigerator, mirror, and t.v. to help continuously remind you to stick with your plan.

Skip the Juice
Derive your calories only from food, not beverage.  Eat whole fruits instead, you gain the benefits of fiber and lose the calories.

Drink Water All Day Long
A gallon a day for those who are working out at least 3 times a week.

Increase Your Intake of Low-Fat Calcium-Enriched Foods
It has been proven that calcium-rich foods help fight the storage of fats in the body.

Skip the Soda
Even if it is diet soda, it has been proven that soda inhibits the absorption of calcium in the body.