3 Ways To A Healthy Diet And Rapid Weight-Loss
July 28, 2009 by Weight Loss Tips · Leave a Comment
If losing weight is your goal, your diet is the first thing you need to address. Exercise is certainly important also, but when it comes down to losing weight, diet is crucial. I hope this article will provide some useful tips and information on how you can make some healthy changes in your everyday diet.
1. You should always have “healthy fats” as part of your diet. They are essential for keeping up the body’s correct hormone levels. And these hormones are required for both burning fat and building muscle. They help to curb your appetite also.
The best sources of these healthy fats are raw nuts, seeds, organic egg yolks, avocados, extra virgin olive oil (this has the highest level of antioxidants), coconut oil (contain medium chain triglycerides, which are a great source of healty saturated fats), and meat which comes from grass-fed animals (this contains conjugated linoleic acid,, which helps burn fat and build muscle).
This is a good tip you could try - eat a handful of nuts , like pecans or almonds, around half an hour before meals, 3 times a day. This will keep down your appetite and it’s a good way of getting your daily supply of protein and fiber. And they are an excellent source of healthy fat.
2. Try to include at least one high-protein item with each of your meals. I prefer a grass-fed dairy product, a grass-fed meat product or something high-protein like beans or nuts. It helps to keep the appetite under control, and reduces the calorie intake.
Getting these proteins mean that your body will put on more lean muscle mass, if you are working out regularly. This in turn means that your metabolism will be able to run faster and burn off that fat.
3. Eating a lot of protein with your meals means that you are actually helping your body to control both blood sugar and insulin levels. This is as a result of the protein helping to slow down breakdown of the ingested carbohydrates. While I don’t favour low-carb diets, I will say that the reason so many people struggle with losing weight is because of high intakes of both processed carbohydrates and refined sugar.
Although fruits contain sugars also, they are fine because the fiber within fruit helps to slow down the blood sugar response. But fruit juice should be avoided, because it has been stripped of fiber by the processing of the juice.
It usually follows, when people start to reduce their intake of grain (from bread, pasta,cereals, bagels etc), they begin to lose fat much easier. I would recommend that you minimize your consumption of grains, and concentrate on eating just fruits and vegetables. Just by doing this, losing weight will get a whole lot easier.
If you take action on these 3 steps towards a healthier diet, I am sure that you will soon see the evidence of a leaner body and increased energy levels.
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