A healthy lifestyle is the best health insurance
Crash diets can do more harm to you than good. Eating right and not less is the key to successful, sustainable, and healthy weight loss. Your body is designed for survival. The moment you starve it, it gets a signal of a famine-like situation. In such cases, the body is engineered to consume more than the actual limit when you eat.
Your body also lacks the energy to break down fats in your body, which also is an activity! Short-term, quick-fix approaches can leave us with unwelcome symptoms like headaches, lethargy, and terrible mood swings. Should not going on a diet make you feel better? Getting healthy and losing weight are not synonymous. All fat is not unhealthy and all thin is not healthy.
You will see all over the town weight loss advertisements to look great. Is a short-term approach to weight loss the right way? Anything that comes easy will not always be right. Weight loss is the outcome and the reason can be anything from starving to having a disease that causes weight loss. A healthy lifestyle will automatically create weight loss as one of the many other benefits you can have that your body is capable of giving.
There are various fad diets popular these days, but the truth is that these diets cannot be sustained in the longer run. These diets can be intriguing and are usually quick solutions that produce initial weight loss due to loss of water. The body is nature’s product and nature cannot be fast-tracked. It will work at its own pace, if it looks like you can speed up, it will always come at some cost.
Some of the common diets in vogue today include Atkin’s diet, GM diet, Paleo diet and Mono diet. A diet deficient in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients can cause
►Malnutrition,
►Fatigue,
►Anemia,
►Brittle bones,
►Hair loss,
►Digestive issues,
►Low immunity, and
►A range of other physical and psychological problems.
Instead of increasing metabolism, these diets actually do the opposite – they trigger hunger and slow down metabolism. Repeated crash dieting can harm your heart, increasing heart palpitations and stress.
Be a healthy eater and not an unkind dieter.
SMALL STEPS TOWARDS HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE…
A drastic change in diet and lifestyle does not work in the long run and leads to withdrawal symptoms. Eating healthy food should not involve losing your mind over it. Boost your energy, lose pounds, and feel happier than ever with these lifestyle-changing, healthy diet tips.
Here are 10 habits that will change the way you eat and you can take to lead a healthier lifestyle:
1. Don’t give up food
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You can eat all the foods that you enjoy, but the key is to limit your quantities into smaller portions. Strict limitations in your diet can lead to rebound and you end up overeating. No single food that supplies all the nutrients required for good health, so it is essential to eat a variety of foods for different vitamins and nutrients.
2. Avoid Boring foods
Food that is uninteresting to the taste buds is not likely to remain in your routine for long. Try to make healthy food interesting and tasty, and that way you are more likely to stick to it.
3. Eliminate Distractions While You Eat:
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While eating, it is tempting to sit in front of a computer screen or a television or and binge on your favorite series. However, it is not at all healthy. Watching shows while having your dinner may whet your appetite and make you overeat, especially if you are watching something with many commercial breaks in between. The same thing happens when remaining engaged with your smartphone while having food. This, in turn, leads to weight gain. You must instead have your meal with a family member or friend and catch up with them over lunch and dinner.
4. Shop smartly
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Be a smart shopper by planning your meals in advance and sticking to your shopping list. Avoid picking up junk food or processed food. Read the labels on the food and watch out for high sugar, saturated fats, preservatives, and high sodium content in packaged foods.
5. Lunch like a king and dine like a pauper
As the famous saying goes, a heavy breakfast and lunch and a light dinner is a smarter lifestyle choice. Eating dinner 3 hours before sleeping is beneficial.
6. Having rainbow
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Eating veggies in a variety of colors give us a wide range of essential phytonutrients and antioxidants, and will give a boost to the body’s immunity.
7. Trying to be perfect
Completely giving up sugars and bread, eating only vegetables at dinner is not the perfect plan. Try to be realistic and make a plan that you can follow through.
8. Drink lots of water
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When dehydrated, the body often confuses thirst with hunger. Being hydrated keeps you full for a longer time and helps avoid overeating.
9. Smart cooking
Cooking food using healthy oils helps lower your risk of heart diseases. Choose roasted vegetables with a small amount of olive oil instead of frying. Grilling, smoking or steaming meats are better cooking options.
10. Choose whole fruits
Choosing whole fruits instead of juices give you all the necessary nutrients present in these fruits, including fibers that help in preventing sudden spikes in blood sugar levels. Avoid fruits with high sweetness. It is natural sugar, but it is SUGAR.
Eating healthy food has a positive impact on sustainable weight loss, mood, and energy levels. Education on eating a healthy diet should start from a young age. Allowing a child to eat anything he wants because he is young is like waiting for health deterioration to start taking action. It is never too late or early to start following a healthy eating habit.
Just like your car needs the right fuel to give the performance you expect, your body too is a machine with endless potential to help you achieve the best in life. All truly successful people eat healthily and live healthily. So treat it with the right nutrition and see its beauty unfold.
Eating healthy and clean is something that you should inculcate into your daily lives, not just, because it helps you to lose weight, but also because it guarantees that you stay fit inside out and keep diseases and illnesses away. It might seem impossible, but even small changes to your lifestyle can bring out big changes in your weight if followed over a long period. What you need is determination and the will to eat clean.
Small steps towards living a healthy lifestyle will become big steps in leading one!
‘Let food be thy medicine, medicine be thy food’. -Hippocrates
