Feed your body right: milk stopped her from snacking

FEED YOUR BODY RIGHT: MILK STOPPED HER FROM SNACKING
Janet Parent knew that to lose weight, she needed to gain control of her eating habits. She did it with milk.
Janet grew up in a family whose clean-your-plate philosophy was largely responsible for her eventual size-14 figure. Over the Ik I years, she dieted time and again, sometimes shedding a few pounds. But she'd lie awake at night, feeling starved. Inevitably, she'd return to large meals and constant snacking. Over a lifetime of gaining, losing, and regaining, Janet watched herself hit a high of 164 pounds. Finally, at age 64, the Old Forge, New York, resident became determined to slim down. "It was either buy yet another new wardrobe or take off the weight," she says.
Her first step was to drop her drastic dieting and go back to preparing and eating her regular foods. For Janet, that meant meals of steak, potatoes, and corn; or chicken, rice, and broccoli—both always served with a salad. The main difference was that she began to leave a little food on her plate at the end of every meal.
This trick helped Janet control her portion sizes. But she still craved snacks. So she tried drinking skim milk between meals as a way to take the edge off her hunger. "I like the taste of milk, and I knew from experience that drinking it made me feel full," she explains. "Besides, the extra calcium is good for my bones." She also ate an orange every night before going to bed, to keep her stomach full until morning and stave off the midnight munchies. Slowly but surely, the extra pounds came off—and have stayed off for 2 years.
Today, at age 66, Janet weighs 147 pounds and wears a size-10 dress. "Drinking milk is the easiest thing I've ever done to lose weight," she says.
WINNING ACTION
Satisfy your hunger with skim milk. A cold 8-ounce glass of skim milk is not only filling but also healthy—a great source of bone-building calcium. If you aren't a fan of skim milk, try 1 percent. It has a richer taste but each
serving still gets fewer than 30 percent of its calories from fat. If you're a chocoholic, add 2 tablespoons of Her-shey's Syrup for a fast chocolate fix with only 50 calories and no fat.
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