By the time you finish reading this you will feel a whole lot better about what you can eat.

I'd better come clean, this is what I ate and drank for lunch yesterday:

thickly buttered slices of granary bread topped with Scottish smoked salmon, a handful of olives and a large glass of beer.

Then we went to the dining table:

Man-size portion of lasagne, with a selection of green leaves, tomatoes and raw onion salad, topped with an olive oil salad dressing.

Large slice of chocolate terrine, with a large strawberry dripped in dark chocolate and frozen, plus one meringue with pouring cream on top. Anyone who knows their chocolate facts will know that this recipe is high in calories, but delicious.

Cheese, bread biscuits and butter.

4 large glasses of wine, or about 500 wine calories.

One, very large brandy and 6 small cups of white coffee.

Total calories ' an awful lot.

Weight gain 07.00 hrs yesterday to 07.00 hrs today = zero pounds.

How Could I Eat all That Food and NOT Put on Any Weight?

The simple answer is that I played tennis for two hours before lunch.

Now keep in mind that I exercised BEFORE I ate. This gave me two important benefits.

First, I burned more than a few calories by playing tennis. So that put some calorie credits in the bank before I started to eat and drink.

Simply by exercising before you eat you can counteract the fat producing effects of the food.

Second, because of the exercise I'd taken, my metabolism was running very quickly by the time I stared to eat. This has the effect of burning off many of the calories you are ingesting, more or less as soon as they enter your body.

Let your inner mind shift back to a time in your childhood when you were out playing all day long and returned home in the evening to eat your mother out of house and home. Did you put on a lot of weight? The reason you didn't put on weight was because you'd been out playing and gaining calorie credits all day long.

Did you know that you can create your own calorie credits anytime simply by taking physical exercise.

Solved, the Problem of Exercising to Lose Weight

Any expert on weight loss will agree that you need to burn at least as many calories as you ingest if you are to succeed in losing weight.

It's true to say that many people are averse to exercising just for the sake of exercising.

Many studies have already shown that exercises are regarded as boring and repetitious and they take up too much time.

There is only one solution to this ' multi-tasking.

What is important is to spend time burning calories and toning up your muscles. It doesn't matter how or when you do this.

STOP and listen to your own thoughts on the subject of weight loss. You want to lose weight, but you don't want to alter your current life style and eating habits. Am I not right on this?

You are reading this, aren't you? And it is all about weight loss, isn't it. So you do want to lose weight, don't you?

What you're saying to me is: "I want to lose weight, but I don't want any hassle. Please make it easy for me.

If you read my weight loss diary you will see that I use hypnosis to get me over the more challenging times. By constantly hypnotising myself I hardly notice that I am eating more sensibly or exercising more.

It is not difficult to learn how to hypnotize yourself. And, as part of the process, you can also learn to remind yourself to do it constantly.

This Tip is Amazing!

I have invented a whole series of exercises that I do in bed, as I watch TV or sit at my desk and as I'm out walking my dogs.

Just think, I don't set aside special times for going to the gym or to go swimming or out for a jog. I just blend my exercise time in with my other every day activities.

This not only saves me time, but ensures that I get the extra exercise that I need to keep me trim and to keep the excess fat falling away.

It's just incredible what you can do when you make it easy for yourself. When you create ways of doing things that both work and do not require any special effort.

Why I Keep a Diary

Notice how I don't talk about losing tens of pounds in a few short days. That's not the point of losing weight. The point is to take it off and keep it off.

You may remember how long it took you to put the excess weight on in the first place. Well, isn't it logical then to allow yourself a reasonable amount of time to take it off again.

To achieve anything in this life you have to be well motivated. Simply by reading back through the pages of my diary I can plot the progress I'm making and encourage myself to keep going.

I have been on my weight loss campaign now for 48 days and I am losing weight steadily. My belt has come in one notch. I can feel that my body is in better shape. When I ran around a lot playing tennis before the "calorie fest" meal that I mentioned earlier in this article, I hardly lost my breath at all.

What's even better thought is that I feel good in myself. I feel good about myself.

I think that everyone should make it a daily task to make themselves feel as good as they can about themselves.