Getting started

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 at 7:17 am

Consult a nutritionist and a trainer. A nutritionist can help you get a handle on what you really are eating and what you should be eating, says Duke’s Gerald Endress. “People say, ‘I don’t eat a lot,’ then they start writing down all the Starbucks coffees they have,” he says. “They can even overeat fruit — an apple has 100 calories.” Likewise, says University of North Carolina’s Mary Petters …