Pamela Pedrick's Key Ideas from The One Thing Every Mom Needs To Know
by Madeleine Davis

Stress has a huge impact on weight. It causes weight gain, especially in the belly area. Eating when under stress, your body cannot properly digest food & it will be stored as fat, no matter how healthy the meal. Stress turns off digestion. You can trick the brain into thinking you are relaxed & your body will turn on digestion & not store the meal as fat. It’s as easy as breathing! Before eating, breathe in for a count of 5, hold that breath for a count of 5 and then exhale for 7-do ten times.

All those foods labeled low-fat & fat-free have added sugar, and, because that diet food tastes so good you keep buying it thinking it will help you to lose weight. Yet, you still struggle and you may have actually gained weight. All of this hidden sugar you are consuming is the culprit. It is the sugar that makes you add on the pounds. Check out the label on your fat-free foods and you’ll be surprised at the amount of sugar that is in it. So eat the full-fat version.

It sets you up for weight loss success the rest of the day. Breakfast should be your second largest meal, not the smallest, and you need to eat a high protein breakfast. Eating breakfast within an hour of waking stokes the fire of your metabolism. Your body will become a fat burning machine! If your breakfast is usually a high carbohydrate such as cereal, bagels, & donuts, switch it to a high protein breakfast such as eggs, steel cut oats, Greek yogurt, or a high protein meal replacement shake.