Many
people who want to lose weight find it difficult to know which foods to
choose for the best weight loss results. Losing weight by swapping and
changing to different diets is not the best way, we need to find a way of
reducing energy content from the normal foods we eat every day. We need to
learn certain food rules to help form better eating habits.
We
should learn to pick out the best foods from our normal daily diet and use
them to form the basis for our new healthy eating habits. This gives
familiarity to the new way of eating rather than the idea that the
individual is "on a diet". Trying to lose weight on a specific diet relays
the message that it will end some day. When a diet ends many people gain
back most, if not all the weight lost.
Try not
to have too much variety of food for each meal
Evidence
has shown humans always consume more food and calories when there is more choice on
offer. For example, have you ever been at a buffet style meal where its “eat
all you can” no matter how much we eat there always seems to be room
for one more item maybe that delicious looking dessert or ice cream!
Many
diets in the past have been based on a similar principle, the cabbage soup
diet, the vegetable diet, etc.
Health
experts state always eat a balanced diet which may seem to contradict the
above statement. However, it is possible to select
a balanced diet and lower amount of choice
for each meal by eating regular small meals.
Be careful
what you add to healthy foods
Salads are one of
the best foods for losing weight, they very popular for many dieters trying
to lose the weight fast. The problem is people often add sauces or creams to
add taste to an otherwise bland food. Mayonnaise is a common addition to
salads but it is very high in calories and fat and a salad with too much
Mayonnaise can be just as high in calories than some of the worst weight
loss foods.
Baked potatoes
are also a great food to help lose weight when part of a small, low calorie
meal but again, some people spoil this great example by adding tons of
butter. Filling a baked potato with baked beans or cottage cheese is
probably the best way to add taste and more nutrition to this low calorie
food.
The idea is when
choosing the best foods to help lose weight try not to neutralize the food's
possible weight loss benefits, be careful with what you add!
Eat a little
high quality protein food with each meal or snack
One study in the UK for the atkins
diet has shown that it wasn't the low carbs that were the reason the
volunteers were losing weight, it also wasn't the ketosis which was causing
the body to boost the metabolism. In fact it
was believed to be the
protein content. The protein in each meal was helping to dull the
appetite causing volunteers to actually consume less calories than those on
the low fat diet.
If
Dr Atkins discovered protein's
ability to suppress appetite then why don't we simply include some protein
at each meal without the hassle or expense of completely changing our whole
dietary foods in order to lose weight.
Adding protein
food to each meal along with the idea of eating more meals in a day may be
difficult to keep calories low enough to lose weight. This idea means adding
another "choice", plus protein foods are often high in calories. To combat
this problem some people combine
protein foods, combining certain plant foods can help lose weight
because they are usually low in calories, high in fiber and it limits the
choice of foods within each meal as only two types of plant foods need to be
combined.
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