Healthy Diet – A Guide to Weight Loss in a healthy way
Here are some weight loss diet tips that can be followed anywhere, everyday:
1. Make a delicious low fat mayonnaise by combining one teaspoon of Dijon mustard or satay sauce with a low fat yogurt.
2. Do not skip meals. Skipping meals slicks the body into slowing down the metabolism, attempting to conserve calories during a period where limited fats and fuel are available. Remember that eating increases the metabolism.
3. Stuff vegetables like capsicum and zucchini with flavored fillings or minced chicken, white meat or fish. These are healthy and contain low fat.
4. Take pita bread roll ups or wraps with salad fillings.
5. Eight hours after waking up, our metabolism slows down that is why 30 minutes of exercise before dinner will increase the metabolism for about two to three hours. This produces an increase in burned fat even hours after the work out is over.
6. Add alfalfa or mung beans to salad to get extra iron.
7. Good cooking and healthy eating begins with learning about nutrition and how to prepare healthy recipes.
8. Learn how to make the family favorite recipes and make sure that fats, salt, and sugar are cut out. Substitute non-fat yogurt for cream, stir-fry without oil and use herbs and spices instead of salt to taste.
9. Consult the doctor before beginning an exercise or weight loss program.
10. Slowly eat and chew each bite during meals as this would decrease one’s appetite.
11. Complete three small meals and two snacks everyday instead of one or two huge meals.
12. Use chicken stock when stir-frying. This will cut down on hidden fat.
13. Buy non-toasted muesli instead of the toasted ones. A plate of toasted muesli contains more fat than a plate of bacon and eggs.
14. As much as possible do not remove the skins of fruits and vegetables since most of the nutrients are concentrated under the skin.
15. Warm water with just a squeeze of lemon juice before breakfast get the metabolism going for the day, this also help preventing constipation and is excellent for the skin.
16. One of the best sources of vegetable protein is from soya beans or tofu. All legumes provide some protein, so include lentils, lima beans etc into casseroles and soups.
17. Look for a weight loss “buddy,” club, or support mates. This will motivate you to stay and enjoy your weight loss program.
18. Though it’s hard at first, try not eating 3 hours or more before bedtime.
19. Make pasta a fast food choice – preparing a pasta meal or salad will only take 10-12 minutes.
20. Chilli helps to speed up metabolism – even the milder varieties.
21. Try making omelettes without adding the yolks! A dramatic decrease in fat.
22. Substitute baking soda, baking powder, MSG and soya sauce in cooking.
23. Remove fat by dropping ice cubes into the baking tray. Fat will stick to the ice cubes.
24. Drinking hot water instead of cold water in the morning can increase the speed of your metabolism and burn more calories.
25. Eat before you go food shopping and always prepare a shopping list. Only buy food which relates to your weekly menu plan and don’t be tempted to buy goodies.
Make sure that the right discipline is still practiced to promote consistency on the diet plan. This will lead eventually to a healthy life-style and a more fruitful living without the extra fat and extra pounds on the side.
Tags: Diet, loosing Weight, weight loss
June 27th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Check out Angel Food ministries they have food packages that can be purchased at a large discount. There is nothing to qualify for everybody is eligible. If this is available in your area it may help. Good luck.
http://www.angelfoodministries.com/
June 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I can’t correct you because I think you’re right.
100% right and I could not have asked your question in a better way.
You’re saying what a lot of people are thinking, at least the ones with the proper knowledge, common sense and experience.
Sometimes, I proud myself of being a top contributor in the Diet and Fitness category (it’s an on and off thing!), because if I can help one person, that makes my day. My last Best Answer is this one…and now I feel good!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apq8lvfKFQKzXxdz0z1qQSHty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090717015740AAhuHVB&show=7#profile-info-XXUE0rA6aa
I agree that a lot of answers are very wrong but it should be the responsibility of the Asker to sort it out, do some more research, maybe buy a book! Y!A should not be the only source of information when looking for the right way to take care of your body. I mean you’re right, brown bread is good to make you feel full because it has fiber, nuts have the good kind of fats and fruits give you…what…vitamins, energy, fiber…A good diet should be a diversified one and if somebody does not know that, they should buy a book on proper nutrition.
Diversity is not only to get all the proper nutrients you need but to avoid boredom and chips binges! If I had too much grilled chicken, I would start hating chicken.
I saw an Oprah show where she shared her commitment to lose some weight. Her weekly menu on the fridge seemed to be all about chicken breasts, sometimes twice a day! I love Oprah but no wonder she’s so big, with too much chicken, when she sees a bag of chips, she zooms in on it! Who could blame her? And she has money so she can afford a nutritionist, a dietician and a cook!
In a way, I’d rather be all alone, trying to figure it out, and not have to eat chicken every day.
As for the BMI, I know that it’s just a tool for doctors to get advance knowledge of their patients’ future health problems due to obesity and use it to convince them to lose some weight if needed. If you’re overweight, start to do something about it. If you’re obese, the doctor will watch out for specific diseases. The doctor can see, just by a visual exam, if the extra weight is fat reserves or muscle mass. It’s obvious since muscle mass takes 3 times less space than fat reserves.
The BMI does not apply to muscular people, like athletes, personal trainers and anybody very fit or they would all be obese!
It was never meant to determine if someone is “fat” or not.
I’d rather be 125lbs (I’m 5’5”), doing my jogging, bicycling and weight training and eating whatever I want while being thin than be 120lbs with a little belly, not exercising, out of shape, weak and counting my calories intake.
Personally, I’m using the BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) following formula…for women is the weight in kg x 7.18 + 795 and for men, it’s the weight in kg x 10.2 + 879 as a tool to make people eat enough because some have absolutely no idea about their caloric requirements. They should need more is they’re athletic because muscle mass needs a lot of calories (50 calories per pound), but usually they’re not, if they’re in here, trying to lose their extra fat reserves.
You should learn to ignore two things…
First, the mean people who are just there to rattle your cage because maybe they had a bad day and need an outlet to vent their frustrations, or they’re like, I don’t know if a word exists for it…fattists? (Edit: yes, the word exists in the Urban Dictionary).
Second, the Spam, like that answer you got from Scarlet, as if that Scarlet ever existed. That answer will be deleted by Y!A but unfortunately, those accounts pop up as fast as they are deleted. I just thumb down them (enough thumbs down and the deletion is automatic) as an effort to clean the place but I don’t get bothered by them, as I don’t get bothered by dust as I wipe my piano!
And that’s my 2 c!