Choosing a healthy weight loss diet is important if you want to not only lose weight but keep it off as well. While many people opt for crash dieting, embarking on a crash diet is actually counterproductive in the long term. It slows your metabolism and many people who crash diet end up gaining more weight than what they had lost while on the diet.
A healthy weight loss diet is one that includes a lot of fruits and vegetables. In fact, such a diet should consist of 60% fruits and vegetables. To make it easier on yourself, choose fruits and vegetables that you like to eat. The ideal is that you eat the vegetables raw, steamed or baked. There are numerous recipes online that are not only low fat but delicious as well.
Choosing low fat proteins is also important. Fish is particularly low in fat and is very healthy for you. Unfortunately, some fish are high in mercury; however, herring, mackerel, anchovies, butterfish and flounder are all low in mercury, as are clams, crawfish, oysters and shrimp. Fish is particularly healthy for you, more so than other seafoods. Chicken is another healthy meat that is low in fat.
You want to minimize the amount of carbohydrates you eat, but you should not cut these out of your diet entirely. Carbohydrates provide energy for the body and are vital to good health. Switch over to healthy carbohydrates such as potatoes (baked, boiled or mashed), brown rice and brown bread. Noodles are also not particularly fattening. Eliminate white bread and white rice from your diet entirely, as not only are these fattening but they are also unhealthy.
You also need to watch what you drink. Completely eliminate soft drinks from your diet, even the ones that are zero fat. Drink only minimal amounts of alcohol, as alcoholic beverages are also high in calories. Drink lots of water - in fact, doctors recommend that you drink at least eight cups of water a day. You may want to drink up to ten or even twelve cups a day, as water helps to clean out your body from harmful toxins, helps you lose weight and can help to curb your hunger when you are tempted with an unhealthy snack.
Other drinks that are good for when you are dieting are low fat or no fat milk, 100% fruit juice, or even a home made fruit smoothie.
Eating the right foods and taking the time to exercise on a daily basis will help you to lose weight and keep it off. You may not lose weight overnight, but you will steadily lose weight. If you keep eating a healthy weight loss diet, the weight will stay off for good.
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