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Step 1. - Portion control, portion control, portion control. I cannot stress this enough. When you go out to eat, section off a third of each food on your plate. Don’t eat that third. You don’t have to eat every fucking morsel they put on your plate. When you’re cooking at home, remember that your stomach is the size of your two fists. Yes, it can stretch, but it doesn’t have to.

Step 2. - Eat slowly. There are so many benefits to eating slowly and really tasting your food that I could write blog posts on only that topic for the rest of my life. However, for the sake of brevity, I’ll keep a tight focus. Eating slowly allows your body to acclimate to the food you just swallowed so you don’t eat too much before you realize you’re full. Besides, chewing your food slowly, savoring every bite, and having a more intimate relationship with your food just makes it taste better.

Step 3. - Put a big time limit on how much red meat you consume. I suggest this for two reasons. First, red meat is pretty fatty to begin with. Second, the deplorable conditions they have to raise beef cattle here in the US makes me sick. Don’t support that industry. You have any idea how much natural resources are used to feed and transport that meat? Tons. I could get really political here, but the real health benefit to limiting your read meat consumption is that you consume less fatty meats. Eat fish instead.

Step 4. - Exercise. I don’t care what you do, just exercise. One could say that exercising is a lot like saving for retirement. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it. Join a gym, jog, park farther away from the office, take the stairs, clean house, play sports, garden, do whatever you must, just exercise!

Step 5. - Lay off the beer and soda. This one is hard for me, but it is necessary to keep a few inches off your waist. Don’t deny yourself a tasty brewski here and there, but just don’t drink fifty of them in one night. Same with the soda. Limit yourself to two per week.

That’s the blog post for today. Enjoy.