Healthy Dieting For Weight Loss
Apart from exercises and lifestyle modification, there is another way of achieving weight loss – through dieting. Now dieting is of two types – healthy and unhealthy dieting.
Let me first explain what an unhealthy diet consists of and how it may affect your body. Then you will find it easier to understand the concept of healthy dieting and why you should always opt for this.
Fad diets
Yes, the other name of unhealthy diets is fad diets or vice versa. By fad diets I mean Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Raw Food Diet, The Zone, General Motors Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Detox Diet, and Miami Diet, 3 Day Diet, 5 Day Diet, 7 Day Diet and the likes.
The list is pretty long and increasing in length because every other day some celebrity or other is coming up with her own dietary concoctions and eating up the heads of impressionable girls and young women who wish to become impossibly thin.
These diets are harmful for the body and doctors and nutritionists always advise against following these diets because they create imbalance in the body by eliminating whole food groups altogether and often result in malnourishment.
These diets make you starve, feel lethargic and fatigued till you drop off into those infamous fainting fits made famous by models and movie stars. Things can take a more serious turn and you may land up in the hospital for all you know!
Healthy dieting for weight loss
You have to replace those 3 huge meals with 5 smaller meals every day, leaving sufficient gap between each.
Supper should be taken by 8 p.m. If you feel hungry by the time it is 10.30 or 11 in the night, munch on Acai berries or guava or apple but certainly not on potato chips.
Red meat, butter, clarified butter, oily spicy gravy laden calorie laced food, aerated drinks, cakes, pastries, deep fried food items, French fries, potato sticks, fritters, chocolates, ice creams, cookies, sweets, junk food and every kind of unrefined sugar and empty calories have to be banned from your life along with alcohol.
Instead start drinking warm water, lime juice, fresh fruit juice, Acai berry juice, herbal green tea, coconut water, etc on a regular basis. You should increase your fluid intake to more than 14 glasses per day.
It is a myth that honey can make you stay slim. Rather it adds to calories. Drink only a big glass of warm water mixed with a dash of lime juice; first thing in the morning to help flush out toxins and to keep constipation at bay.
Water also acts as appetite suppressant. But let me debunk the myth that cold water can add to your calories. It doesn’t. But artificial beverages and carton packed fruit beverages can do this.
Next in line is the inclusion of fresh fruits, green leafy vegetables, olive oil, vitamin C enriched vegetables and fruits, whole wheat products, lean meat, white meat, fish etc in your diet along with lentils, legumes, beans, ladies finger, cabbage etc.
