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Do you really know how much to eat?

With the recent holidays, most of us are wondering, "What happened?"  Our pants are a little tighter, we seem a little more sluggish, we resolve to eat less and exercise more...we often seem defeated.  Don't turn to some fad diet or expensive program.  We all know that calories are the main problem, so we have devised a simple solution to keep the pounds off: The ProportionFit Diet.  See the following press release and example to get started:

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The ProportionFit Diet: A highly effective, and yet elegantly simple, diet for real life

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Do you know how many cups of food you should eat?

It’s the holiday season and you are stuffed.  You promise to eat healthier as you attend yet another holiday party.   But: how do you eat healthier?  The ProportionFit Diet will help you manage or even lose weight over the holidays and beyond without depriving yourself of your festive favorites.  It is a diet so simple that you eat what you normally eat and simply count cups, not calories. 

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In The ProportionFit Diet, a new book by Dr. Nicholas Meyer, he shares a simple formula by which your weight can be correlated to the cups of food eaten.  Now there is no need to wait for the New Year to start your weight loss resolution.  In fact, this book can help everyone lose weight and maintain their appropriate weight without the addition of supplements, pills, or special meals—even during the holidays.  In the midst of the holidays, the book was launched just in time: December 5, 2013 6:00 pm at the offices of St. Croix Orthopaedics (5803 Neal Avenue, Oak Park Heights, MN).  Now everyone can resolve to lose weight for the New Year.

The ProportionFit Diet is revolutionary in its simplicity and proven successful.   In a recent study, those who followed the diet closely lost an average of over 15 pounds in 2 months.  This concept and book came about as Dr. Meyer struggled with his own weight over the last several years.  As an orthopaedic surgeon, he also saw the effects of obesity on many of his patients.  He studied different diets and none seemed to provide an effective, inexpensive and reproducible means of losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight.  In response, he began experimenting and researching and came up with The ProportionFit Diet, which provides a system to look at food consumption in a whole new light.  Nothing fancy or complex; The ProportionFit Diet is plain and simple.  

So: Do you know how many cups you should eat?

Dr. Nicholas Meyer is an orthopaedic surgeon with St. Croix Orthopaedics and President of Precise Medical Technologies.  He grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, and graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School.  For more information, go to www.ProportionFit.com.

Imagine this Christmas dinner:
1 cup ham (365 calories)
1 cup potatoes (240 calories)
1 cup (=1 roll) (130 calories)
1 cup corn (175 calories)
1/2 cup cheesecake (280 calories)
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4.5 cups (1190 calories) = 264 calories per cup (average)

Which is easier to track: Cups or calories? Count cups! No need to memorize calorie counts; just balance your diet, count cups, allow about 1 cup per 20 pounds of body weight, and you're good. Read The ProportionFit Diet for more information or go to www.proportionfit.com. Tell your friends!  Let's make 2014 the year of getting ProportionFit.

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