Someone once said if you change nothing then nothing will change - so many people discover just that when it comes to weight loss. But can you diet healthy? The answer is emphatically yet but you must change what you do then something will change.
To diet healthy it all begins with healthy foods and it includes foods that you will continue to eat for the rest of your life. It does not include roller coaster dieting, or new fads that come along. One week it's low carbs, the next week it's no fat, and then it's the see food diet eating anything and everything you want.
You might be surprised to discover that you can diet healthy on the see food diet when done correctly. If you were to ensure that your fat intake was reduced especially your saturated and trans fats. Then you could eat any amount of food you wanted and not gain a pound as long as you burned more calories than you ate.
Now that's the key here. For you to diet healthy you must make sure you are eating healthy foods such as lots of fruits and vegetables and that you are not reducing your calorie intake to the point where your bodies built in starvation kicks in.
If you diet healthy you will understand why not to reduce calories quickly. Once your starvation mode kicks in your body will begin to store everything as fat and we do mean everything so there you are reducing your calories and increasing your exercise and you are still gaining weight. How frustrating is that? It's because you have reduced your calorie intake too low.
If you want to diet healthy you want to start by writing down exactly what you are eating each day and then determining the number of calories and the fat content. This will take a bit of time but it's worth it in the end.
Once you've done that the next step to diet healthy is to calculate how many calories you burn in a day. You should record both of these for a week and then take the average.
To diet healthy you will want to find the break even point between your exercise and your food intake. Then you want to reduce your calorie intake 500 calories and increase your activity. So for example lets say you burn 2000 calories a day. You intake 2300. You will want to increase your activity by 300 to reach break even and then reduce your calorie intake by 500. That's going to have you shedding some pounds slowly and healthy at about 1 to 2 pounds a week. As you feel comfortable you can increase your activity and you will burn more and loose more weight.
To diet healthy you will want to take in those calories from healthy foods. If you aren't sure use the Food Guide. Make sure your diet has at least 2 servings of fish per week, and lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. Of course you will have to continue your calorie count and calorie burn to know what is happening. Most of all have some fun with your personal challenge.
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