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Healthy Eating As Part of a Weight Loss Program

By Derek Phillips

Healthy eating is actually very easy if you just know the basics. Starchy foods like potatoes, rice, bread and pasta are the ideal base. Add plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables and you will have all you need nutritionally without excess fat or too much salt and sugar. If you prepare your own meals from fresh ingredients then you will know exactly what is going into your meal.

It is very easy to use ready meals, prepared sauces and canned food, but they often contain high levels of:

• fat
• sugar
• salt
• flavour enhancers
• preservatives
• artificial sweeteners

They also tend to be low in:

• fibre
• vitamins
• minerals

Eating these foods will lead to your taste buds expecting this artificially enhanced taste or sweetness. Fresh food then doesn’t taste quite as good as the processed food, and you end up losing your enthusiasm for healthy eating or find it an uphill struggle to convince the rest of the family. If you stick with the healthy options, and throw the processed food in the bin, then you will soon begin to appreciate the taste of real food.

Once you are eating more healthy food then weight loss should come a lot easier. You do need to get a balance of foods from the five food groups:

• Starchy food
• Fruit and vegetables
• Milk and dairy
• Meat
• Fats and sugars

Starchy foods and fruit and vegetables should each provide about a third of your diet. The rest can come from meat (including fish, eggs and beans) and dairy products such as cheese, milk and yoghurt. Foods high in fats and sugars should form a small part of your diet.

If you are not eating healthily at the moment then why not take some positive action now. Make a note of what you usually have for breakfast, at work for breaks and lunch, at home on the weekends in the day, and the range of evening meals you eat.

Think of easy ways that you can change some of the processed foods or those high in fats and sugar. Could you swap the white bread toast with butter and jam to some chopped banana and apple with low fat yoghurt? Or maybe some oat cookies with a fruit juice for break rather than the coffee and chocolate bar? Could you drop the frozen pizza with oven chips for some grilled chicken and salad?

At first you may find it hard to give up the processed and flavour enhanced foods. But once you start to really taste fresh food and, more importantly, start to feel better and look slimmer, then you won’t miss them.

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There is far too much salt in processed food. When cooking try to cut the salt down to the bare minimum and don’t add extra at the table. Try leaving salt out completely and see what the real taste of food is! Try plain crisps with no salt at all and you’ll taste the potato.

Getting active is one of the best ways to lose weight and keep fit. There are all sorts of activities and sports that can get you moving and aid weight loss.

Being physically active is not just a good way to lose weight it also keeps you fit and healthy. Cycling, Dance, Football, Gym, Running/Jogging, Racket Sports, Swimming, Tai Chi, Walking/Rambling and Yoga.

Calories and Weight

A pound of fat equals 3500 calories. To lose 1 pound a week you will need to expend 3500 more calories than you eat that week, whether through increased activity or decreased eating or both.

Losing 1-2 pounds of fat a week is a sensible goal, and so you will want to use the combination of increased activity and eating less that will total 3500 calories for 7 days.

Although exercising is great just being more active is also a good way to burn calories. There are many small changing you can make to your daily routine that will burn calories for example:

• Take the stairs instead of the lift
• Keep walking whilst the escalator caries you up
• Walk or cycle instead of driving short distances
• Park your car further away than you need to or get off the bus one early
• Do some exercise on your lunch hour – swimming, yoga etc

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Why not try getting in shape by wearing footwear, such as toning sandals and shoes, that help get you in shape from the feet up! There’s no need for a gym or a fancy exercise routine. All you have to do is walk to see the benefits of calorie burning and muscle toning.

There are many well known health benefits of drinking water and it is especially important to drink plenty of water if you are trying to lose weight or maintain a healty size. Water is much better for you than ‘diet’ drinks as it contains no chemicals or sugar substitutes. An ideal way of getting clean, filtered hot and cold water, both at home and at the office, is to use an all-in-one unit such as the stylish and compact T6 from Tana Water. The T6 delivers instant hot water at any temperature required so you can make a cup of tea or coffee without waiting for the kettle. It also gives ice cold, triple-filtered water for an immediate refreshing drink at any time.

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All natural weight loss plans sound almost too good to be true. Is it even possible to lose weight, look and feel great without being forced into an unnatural diet or without taking dangerous drugs?

If you want to lose weight, you have to have a plan. You need to set goals and pursue them. And you have to be patient. There is no such a thing as fast weight loss. You cannot take a pill and get rid of all the fat deposits in a matter of weeks or months. Your body just doesn’t work this way.

Here is a good plan with all the things you will have to do to lose weight safely and effective:

* Exercise
* Stay focused on being healthy, not on becoming thin
* Use natural fat binders or appetite suppresors if you have to

As we get older, managing your weight properly and getting the right balance of food types will improve your overall feeling of well-being, whilst also reducing the risk of developing illness and diseases.

Healthy diet explained:

• Try to have plenty of starchy foods such as rice, bread, pasta, potatoes, breakfast cereals, yams and sweet potatoes. Always try to go for the wholemeal variety in these foods where possible
• Aim to have five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables daily
• Use a moderate amount of dairy product and look for low fat varieties
• Moderate amount of meat, fish or alternatives such as eggs, beans, peas and lentils – look for lower fat versions where possible
• The occasional treat (foods that are higher in fat, salt and/or added sugar should only be eaten in moderation)
• Little salt – always read the label

Weight Loss With Vegetable Soup – Beat the Diet Cravings With Cheap, Healthy Soup

Vegetable soup is a useful part of any weight loss diet as it can be very low in calories and fat, and it will fill that hole in your stomach and stop the cravings – at least for a while! It is also a healthy option providing much needed fresh vegetables in the diet that can so easily be missed out.

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