"Do I have to Count Portions???"

Yesterday I attended a launch event for a medspa in Ohio that will be bringing the Serotonin-Plus Weight Loss Program into their facility. This was a very interesting place...a combination of a bed and breakfast, day spa and now a weight loss center. The facility was beautiful, isolated, peaceful and the owners were incredibly nice and hospitable.

During the coarse of the presentation, one of the attendees asked in a very frustrated way: "Is this one of those diets where you have to count portions/amounts?"

Clearly, there is work involved in the reduction of calories. But herein lays the psychological concept: In the initial phases of learning how to ear reduced caloric portions, most people do, in fact, need to weigh the food, count the portions, etc. Once the person incorporates these changing portions on a more permanent basis, there will be no need to actually "count" the portions. "Eye-balling" the portion size will then take place and this becomes part of the lifestyle.

Once again, there is no question that there is lots of work involved in the act of losing weight. However, when the correct principles are followed early, they will be much easier to carry forth later.