weight loss food : What is the best diet for me?
Are you ready to diet? Again? Diets entice us with their promises of quick weight loss. But the people we know who eat well and look healthy aren't dieting at all. They have simply adopted good eating habits. Diets can be so restrictive that they set us up for failure. Some are so low in caloric intake that we literally don't have the energy to continue with them.
Follow almost any diet and you will lose weight. This is because whether you are counting calories, fat, or carbohydrates, or restricting certain types of food, you are ultimately restricting the number of calories you consume. The formula for losing weight is very simple: Consume fewer calories than you burn.
You do not need to join a commercial diet program, purchase special foods or dietary supplements, or use diet pills to succeed at weight loss. In fact, the best thing that you could do would be to start eating healthy right now and continue to do so for the rest of your life.
Of course very few people could do such a thing, so think of a diet or the use of diet aids as tools to help you get started. A good diet plan can teach you how to eat well and give you a jump-start toward meeting your goals. But whatever path you choose to follow now, your goal should be to make it on your own at some point down the road.
So, what should you eat? You would likely do well to eat mostly fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans and peas), and limited amounts of lean protein (reduced-fat dairy products, fish, chicken, and lean cuts of beef and pork). Also choose whole and natural foods over processed foods whenever possible. Foods with good nutritional value are not only healthy, they will help you lose weight and live longer.
Finding the Right Diet Plan
The above paragraph describes a commonly accepted, healthy way of eating that for most people will result in weight loss and improved health. But there are many other diet plans to choose from. While diet trends come and go, the most basic form of dieting, the low calorie diet, will always be popular. Recent diet trends include the low fat diet and, most recently, the low carb diet.
After learning the basics of diet and weight loss you will be able to choose the diet plan, or simply a healthier way to eat, that is right for you. You will be able to steer yourself away from marketing gimmicks and promises of short term results and find a solution based on sound, realistic and healthy principles.
While we continue to support people on all diet plans, we recommend two in particular:
Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman: A revolutionary formula for fast and sustained weight loss based on eating highly nutritious, low calorie foods.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto: Lose weight without causing your body to go into survival mode, your metabolism to slow and weight loss to stop.
A good diet plan will be healthy from the start, and will be based on principles that you can follow for a lifetime. In fact, if you have found the right diet plan, it will be one that you will want to follow for a lifetime.
Take It Easy
Unless you are excited to be following a very specific diet and exercise plan, do not try and change too much too fast. If you have been eating poorly and not exercising, both your body and your mind will have a lot of adjusting to do.
All the sugar and fat were actually quite enjoyable, and sitting on the couch didn't feel too bad, either. If you try and change everything too quickly the odds are greater that you will feel bad, get discouraged, and give up. So be patient.
A time will come when a healthy snack will taste as good as the junk food you felt bad about eating, and you will look forward to your regular exercise. For better or worse, we can become addicted to just about anything. It's certainly "for better" when it's eating well and exercising.
Learning to eat well and exercise is the only solution to long term weight loss.
Copyright 2000-2006
Follow almost any diet and you will lose weight. This is because whether you are counting calories, fat, or carbohydrates, or restricting certain types of food, you are ultimately restricting the number of calories you consume. The formula for losing weight is very simple: Consume fewer calories than you burn.
You do not need to join a commercial diet program, purchase special foods or dietary supplements, or use diet pills to succeed at weight loss. In fact, the best thing that you could do would be to start eating healthy right now and continue to do so for the rest of your life.
Of course very few people could do such a thing, so think of a diet or the use of diet aids as tools to help you get started. A good diet plan can teach you how to eat well and give you a jump-start toward meeting your goals. But whatever path you choose to follow now, your goal should be to make it on your own at some point down the road.
So, what should you eat? You would likely do well to eat mostly fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans and peas), and limited amounts of lean protein (reduced-fat dairy products, fish, chicken, and lean cuts of beef and pork). Also choose whole and natural foods over processed foods whenever possible. Foods with good nutritional value are not only healthy, they will help you lose weight and live longer.
Finding the Right Diet Plan
The above paragraph describes a commonly accepted, healthy way of eating that for most people will result in weight loss and improved health. But there are many other diet plans to choose from. While diet trends come and go, the most basic form of dieting, the low calorie diet, will always be popular. Recent diet trends include the low fat diet and, most recently, the low carb diet.
After learning the basics of diet and weight loss you will be able to choose the diet plan, or simply a healthier way to eat, that is right for you. You will be able to steer yourself away from marketing gimmicks and promises of short term results and find a solution based on sound, realistic and healthy principles.
While we continue to support people on all diet plans, we recommend two in particular:
Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman: A revolutionary formula for fast and sustained weight loss based on eating highly nutritious, low calorie foods.
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto: Lose weight without causing your body to go into survival mode, your metabolism to slow and weight loss to stop.
A good diet plan will be healthy from the start, and will be based on principles that you can follow for a lifetime. In fact, if you have found the right diet plan, it will be one that you will want to follow for a lifetime.
Take It Easy
Unless you are excited to be following a very specific diet and exercise plan, do not try and change too much too fast. If you have been eating poorly and not exercising, both your body and your mind will have a lot of adjusting to do.
All the sugar and fat were actually quite enjoyable, and sitting on the couch didn't feel too bad, either. If you try and change everything too quickly the odds are greater that you will feel bad, get discouraged, and give up. So be patient.
A time will come when a healthy snack will taste as good as the junk food you felt bad about eating, and you will look forward to your regular exercise. For better or worse, we can become addicted to just about anything. It's certainly "for better" when it's eating well and exercising.
Learning to eat well and exercise is the only solution to long term weight loss.
Copyright 2000-2006
