September 3rd, 2010 by admin
First it’s the Atkins Diet, then it’s the Suzanne Summers Diet, then it’s the Green Tea diet - are you drowning in a filed of misinformation trying to find your healthy diet plan?
When it comes to a healthy diet plan what you need to remember is that a fad in dieting is just like a fashion fad -here today - gone tomorrow - and usually there is no scientific information that would prove these fads work.
A healthy diet plan never has to be as complicated as many would like to make you believe. I’m a firm believer in simple so if you burn more calories than you eat you are going to loose weight and if you eat more calories than you burn you are going to gain weight. Now how simple is that?
For your healthy diet plan to work it needs to be packed with nutrition and a calorie count that’s lower than what you burn. Now you think that would make good sense and fundamentally it does however if you reduce your calorie intake drastically your body is going to panic and go into starvation mode storing everything as fat.
Your healthy diet plan must not reduce your calories more than 500 calories from where you are right now. What you do nee to do however is trade out those fats for healthier choices in the fruits and vegetables category and for heavens sakes remember that if you are having a salad try to keep the dressing calories down.
A healthy diet doesn’t restrict any one food group nor does it encourage eating only one food group. Instead you can eat anything you want in moderation including that decadent piece of chocolate cake. But what you do have to do is increase your activity. Increasing activity while reducing calories only slightly is a far more effective way of loosing weight long term.
A healthy diet plan will do just that for you. It will retrain the way you think about food it will help you make healthier choices. Calorie count and read labels for awhile but it wont’ take long before you won’t have to anymore. Once you have retrained your brain you will automatically be drawn to healthy foods and you will know their approximate value. So you see like anything new a little practice and in no time you’ll be good as gold.
Of course while you are working on your healthy diet plan you need to also be fine tuning your exercise plan. You need to increase your aerobic workout so that you are burning more calories and you also need to include weight training so that you are toning and building muscle.
A healthy diet plan combined with a healthy exercise program will result in a healthy lifestyle for years to come. You are going to feel great and look fantastic. And with no diet programs to get involved in you’ll save your money and your time after all you already have the secret to safe weight loss.
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September 1st, 2010 by admin
The number one key factor in the success of a new diet is whether or not you can keep the diet consistent. You may find plenty of diets that help you lose weight, but you are going to fail 100% of the time that you cannot sustain your diet. Your success really depends on your ability to sustain your diet - potentially for the rest of your life. If you don’t think that you can possibly continue your diet for many many years without any breaks, it is probably not the right diet for you. It is best to do some searching and find something that you can sustain.
There are plenty of diets out there, from low carb to raw food. All are supposed to help you lose pounds and keep them off. Regardless of what your specific diet is, the basic premise of weight loss is that you are spending more energy than you are taking in. You should be getting daily exercise in conjunction with choosing healthy meals and cutting out any empty calories (such as soda, cookies, chips, etc.). Weight will slowly start to come off if you adjust your eating and exercise habits. Eventually, you will get down to the weight that you want to be, and as long as you keep your diet and exercise routines going, you will stay at a healthy weight for a long time to come.
The one problem that most people encounter is trying to find healthy diet food that they can continue to eat for sustained periods of time. Many people find one or two different healthy meals that they enjoy, but have difficult creating any sort of variety. They consistently eat the same few health food options, but eventually they get sick of eating the same things over and over again. A good idea is to have an assortment of healthy diet food options so that you will get some variety in your diet and be able to continue your diet for much longer than you had imagined.
If you are trying to find a variety of healthy diet food, you have a few options that may help you find what you are looking for:
One idea is to cook everything yourself. The problem with this is that it takes a lot of time to cook yourself a meal every time you want to eat. Also, having all the ingredients might not be easy or economical (products going bad before you finish them). If you do want to cook, you can do what my dad does: batch. Go ahead and cook yourself an entire week’s worth of meals in one day. Put them in some containers, freeze everything and then heat and serve when you want to eat.
Another option is to go to the grocery store and start picking healthy pre-packaged diet meals. There should be a ton of options in your frozen food section. The only problem is that it can be expensive, you really have no idea what you are getting, and you don’t even know where to begin.
Finally, my favorite option is to order all your diet food online and have it delivered to your front door. You can do this for relatively inexpensive, and they will send you literally everything that you need to eat for that month. Just heat and serve when you need to eat. This service takes all the guess work out of picking your healthy diet food.
Always keep in mind that sustainability is the key to success for any diet. Find something that works for your taste buds, schedule and wallet.
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