7 top tips – how to choose the right weight loss plan (7)
August 26, 2008 at 4:55 pm | Posted in body, Uncategorized, weight loss | Leave a commentTags: education, exercise, food, food choices, healthy eating, lose fat, lose weight, meal, tools, weight loss
It must be doable long term
A good wight loss plan will help you to lose weight by focusing on healthy eating principles and exercise. It will not be about starving yourself, eating one type of vegetable or doing something stupid! You can’t starve yourself forever or eat one lone vegetable forever!- Your chosen weight loss plan must not promote a full on liquid diet. That’s not doable long term is it? If it promoted meal replacements these must come with proper meals and they must be as nutritious as a healthy meal.
- It must give you maximum flexibility in meal choices so you can build a program that is right for you. You wouldn’t be happy eating foods you don’t like in the long term would you? So don’t do it in the short term!
- A good weight loss program will not prohibit any foods, but teach you about food so that you can eat all things in moderation and make the right food choices for your individual goals.
- Your chosen weight loss plan must provide you with the tools and education you need to not only lose weight but also to maintain your new weight through the right food choices and an exercise program you enjoy and can keep up.
When you are choosing a program to help you lose weight just make sure that whatever you sign up for can be done on a long term basis. Otherwise it will be a crash diet that will result in a yo-yo dieting effect. Not good for your health or your self esteem…
Posted by Sara Brown, 26/08/08
Successful weight loss – the right food choice
August 16, 2008 at 10:05 am | Posted in body, health, lifestyle, Uncategorized, weight loss | Leave a commentTags: calorie, calories, ceral, chocolate, choice, crisps, diet, diets, food, food choice, food choices, food groups, food plan, fruit, healthy eating, healthy weight, lifestyle, long term weight loss, lose weight, nutrient, nutrients, nutritional needs, processed food, protein, vegetable oil, vegetables, weight loss, weight management
For successful weight loss understand one thing about calorie intake – give priority to unprocessed food stuffs over highly processed foods (such as snacks like crisps and chocolate). There is no getting around this, whether we are interested in healthy eating, weight loss or maintaining a healthy weight!
This whole over complicated topic is quite simple – if the basic food groups, such as fruit, vegetables, cereal products, animal or vegetable protein sources, vegetable oil and calorie free drinks are included in our diet in a balanced way, then our nutritional needs will be properly fulfilled. So, if you are looking for a diet, make sure it’s built on this principle. There are very good diet plans on the market that set out calorie and nutrient requirements with controlled food portions within basic food groups. That means we have choice – we can choose our favourite from the list of food groups and decide for ourselves whether we prefer to eat berries, kiwis or oranges, and if we want to eat meat, fish or cheese etc
When you settle on a food plan, to make the most of the flexibility of choices available, it’s advisable that we do our homework. E.g. when on holiday and our usual breakfast or lunch is not available, a quick look at our food list will help us decide which foods and in which quantities we can eat from from the buffet instead. And after a few short weeks we’ll have a real feel for how much and which foods are right for us. Doing our homework will help us succeed at maintaining our new weight – when we know how much of which food we should eat it becomes quite simple – it’s no longer a diet, now it’s a lifestyle.
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Posted by Sara Brown 16/08/08
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