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Vinnieisms
Following are a few of the choice bits of wisdom put in the way that only Vinnie has, that his clients have come to call "Vinnieisms."
- If you're asking how long it's gonna take to lose the weight you're aiming to lose... you've already failed.
Why? Because if that's what you're thinking about, then you're already longing to go back to the way you've BEEN living, that got you fat in the first place.
- Trail mix is not a healthy snack. It's basically a disassembled candy bar.
- All natural doesn’t mean low-cal. Just remember – sugar and fat are both “all-natural.”
- The calories in breakfast cereal are not based on what you think a serving is. Next time you go to have a bowl, measure out what the box says "one serving" is. You'll be shocked by how little it is.
- It's not what you eat between Christmas and New Years that counts... it's what you eat between New Years and Christmas.
(Don't worry so much about a little holiday splurging. Worry more about maintaining a sane and healthy diet year-round.)
- Always remember to put life into living.
(If you fret every time you slip up and have some indulgence, the next day you'll go completely off the wagon and back to your old ways. If you want a piece of chocolate cake one night... have it. Life is short... enjoy. Just then continue on, eating sensibly. You can't do that every day, but you also can't so completely deprive yourself that you make yourself unhappy.)
- Weight loss does not come in pill form.
(This is just common sense. Weight loss is about a way of living, not about popping pills.)
- You can't make up sleep.
(To lose weight and get healthy, you need to get plenty of rest, and if you miss out on some one night, you can't make up for it the next night -- it's gone. Make getting proper sleep a vital part of your weight-loss program.)
- The weight-loss tips you read in magazines (Lose 10 pounds in 10 days, etc.) are just written to sell magazines.
- It takes just as long to lose weight as it did to put it on. It's just more fun putting it on.
- If you still have extra weight on you a year after you give birth, it's not baby weight -- it's fat.
(If you've eaten properly while pregnant, and then resumed a normal diet after the baby is born, your "baby weight" shouldn't stay on for more than a couple of months at the most.)
- Food does not have a brain -- you do. That means you are in control of the food, and not the other way around.
- If you have to ask friends if they think you're getting fat -- you are.
- If you've gained weight, and it's not gone in a couple of days, it's not water weight. You've gained fat.
(Try this sometime -- take a pound of beef fat, and put it through a wringer. Not one ounce of water will come out -- I guarantee it.)
- Shaquille O'Neal has "big bones." Chances are... you're fat. Deal with it, and stop using your skeleton as an excuse. I've never ever seen a fat skeleton.
- A run to the border is not an aerobic workout.
- Your spouse or significant other did not make you fat, unless they tied you down and force-fed you.
(You're responsible for the choices you make, in terms of what to eat, and what and how much exercise you do.)
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