Jul
31
If you are hoping to lose weight, having a healthy diet is the principal thing. Of course, exercise is important and very beneficial, but when it comes to weight control, diet is king. I hope this article gives you some useful, easy-to-follow guidance for making healthy changes to your everyday eating habits.
1. Be sure to include healthy fats in your meals whenever possible. This is an important factor in maintaining your bodys required hormone levels both for fat burning and also for muscle building. Having adequate healthy fats in your diet also ensures that your appetite is kept under control.
You may be wondering where you can get all these “healthy fats”. Well, seeds, raw nuts and avocados are good sources, as are the yolks of organic eggs. Coconut oil contains medium chain triglycerides, a great source of healthy fats. Extra virgin olive oil has the highest level of antioxidants, and grass-fed meat has “conjugated linoleic acid”, which helps to build muscle as well as burn fat.
Here’s a good tip - try a handful of raw nuts, such as almonds or pecans, about 30 minutes before your main meals. This will help to quell the appetite, and give you protein, fiber and “healthy fat”. Just a handful will do the trick - nuts are very nutrient-intensive.
2. With each meal, try to include a high-protein item. This could be a grass-fed dairy product, a grass-fed meat item or high-protein beans or nuts. This is a great way of controlling your calorie intake, and quelling your appetite.
Getting proteins like these means that, if you are working out regularly, the body puts on more lean muscle rather than fat. And your metabolism will be able to run faster, thus better able to burn off fat.
3. By eating lots of protein with each of your meals, you are helping your body to control blood sugar and insulin levels. This is because the protein helps to slow down the breakdown of ingested carbohydrates. I am not in favour of low carb diets, but I would say that the reason most people struggle to lose weight is because of their high intake of processed carbohydrates like refined grain-based starches and refined sugar, day in and day out.
It’s true that you have sugar in fruits also, but that is OK because they have fiber also, and fiber will slow down the response of the blood sugar. Avoid fruit juice though - it does not have this fiber, as the processing of the juice strips it out.
It usually follows, when people start to reduce their intake of grain (from bread, pasta,cereals, bagels etc), they begin to lose fat much easier. I would recommend that you minimize your consumption of grains, and concentrate on eating just fruits and vegetables. Just by doing this, losing weight will get a whole lot easier.
So if you go ahead and follow these 3 steps to a healthier diet, you should see changes before long - a leaner body, and higher levels of energy.
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