Spotlight on Ally Russel - Weight Watchers Cover Star, July 2013

Ally Russell a full time mother of three, lost an amazing 24kg on the weightwatchers program. Ally enjoyed a daily allowance of 27 ProPoints! while this seems like a really low daily allowance, and many people will be wondering what can i eat on only 27 pro points a day?! keep reading to find out how she used smart choices to eat a surprising substantial amount of food.

6 tips to help you lose weight on a diet

1. Use fresh ingredients. Buy in season because because it will taste better and cost you less.
      
   
   
2. Eat off smaller plates. Studies show that you eat fewer calories when eating off smaller plates.Substitute ingredients: Swap sour cream for low fat yogurt and full cream milk for reduced fat or skim. And when baking swap butter and oil for a fruit puree or apple sauce.
   
   
   
   
3. Substitute ingredients: Swap sour cream for low fat yogurt and full cream milk for reduced fat or skim. And when baking swap butter and oil for a fruit puree or apple sauce.
   
   
4. avoid purchasing foods that list sugar in the first three ingredients or contain multiple types of sugar. Fructose, Corn syrup, fruit-juice concentrate, malt syrup, sucrose,molasses, dextrose and glucose are all types of sugar!
   
   
   
5. look for healthier ways of cooking, braising, broiling grilling are all good options. And try to stay away with anything with fried ingredients because this means they have been cooked in oil and/or deep-fried.
   
   
   
   
6. Drink lots of water. Water helps fill you up and too many people confuse being thirsty with being hungry.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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