Are you tired of diet tips handed out by someone with apparently unlimited income and time? For some of us, it may just not be practical to spend half of our Sunday preparing carefully portioned meals for the rest of the week, or financially feasible to buy all our meals prepackaged in just the right portions. And there are those of us who cringe at the thought of weighing food to achieve 'optimal portion sizes'.
Here are ten real life diet tips for the rest of us.
1. Eating out? Restaurant portions tend to be enormous, and if it's on the plate, we tend to eat it. If it's possible, order from the kid’s menu, where portions are more reasonably sized.
2. Keep healthy snacks around and easily accessible. A bowl of fruit on the kitchen table, a container of celery or carrot sticks in the refrigerator, or a couple of pop-open cans of fruit salad in your desk at work will help you grab for something healthy when those first hunger pains begin. In other words, you'll be more likely to grab something low-calorie and good for you if it's easy to eat.
3. Substitute frozen vegetables for canned. Canned veggies tend to be high in sodium, which you don't need, and low in real nutrition, which you do. Buy economy size bags with zip closures to make it easy to pour out a single serving for a meal.
4. Buy a vegetable steamer. Steaming is one of the healthiest ways to cook vegetables. The food retains nearly all of its natural nutrients instead of leaching it out into the cooking water. Even better, it makes your veggies taste great - which means you'll be more likely to eat them instead of filling up on fatty foods that pack on weight.
5. Never eat standing up. One of the easiest ways to sabotage your diet is to 'eat without thinking'. Treat eating with the respect that it deserves. Fix yourself a plate. Sit down and eat properly. You'll be less likely to just pop food into your mouth without paying attention.
6. Spread your meals out. When you eat three meals a day, your body tends to store whatever it doesn't need right that moment. By adopting a 'grazing' habit, you'll keep your metabolism working throughout the day. Have a small breakfast, a piece of fruit with crackers or toast at mid-morning, a light lunch and an 'after school snack' mid-afternoon. Just remember that you're breaking up the same amount of food into smaller meals, not ADDING more food into your daily diet.
7. Grab a fruit juice or flavored water instead of soda. Soda is nothing but empty calories. No nutrients, lots of sugar. Instead, grab a bottle of 100% fruit juice, or water flavored with a spritz of fruit.
8. Drink water. Even the FDA recommends at least 8 full 8 ounce glasses of water a day to keep your body working right. When you're dieting, you should drink even more. It's not just that full feeling - water helps your body digest foods properly and cleans out your system.
9. Can't afford a gym membership? Make a pact with friends to exercise together. Make a date at least three times a week to play volleyball, take a walk or spend half an hour doing something active.
10. Skip the potato chips. Fatty snacks fried in hydrogenated oil like potato chips contribute fat and calories and not much else. Instead, grab a handful of dried fruit or a cup of yogurt for the same amount of calories and a lot more nutritional benefit.
Here are ten real life diet tips for the rest of us.
1. Eating out? Restaurant portions tend to be enormous, and if it's on the plate, we tend to eat it. If it's possible, order from the kid’s menu, where portions are more reasonably sized.
2. Keep healthy snacks around and easily accessible. A bowl of fruit on the kitchen table, a container of celery or carrot sticks in the refrigerator, or a couple of pop-open cans of fruit salad in your desk at work will help you grab for something healthy when those first hunger pains begin. In other words, you'll be more likely to grab something low-calorie and good for you if it's easy to eat.
3. Substitute frozen vegetables for canned. Canned veggies tend to be high in sodium, which you don't need, and low in real nutrition, which you do. Buy economy size bags with zip closures to make it easy to pour out a single serving for a meal.
4. Buy a vegetable steamer. Steaming is one of the healthiest ways to cook vegetables. The food retains nearly all of its natural nutrients instead of leaching it out into the cooking water. Even better, it makes your veggies taste great - which means you'll be more likely to eat them instead of filling up on fatty foods that pack on weight.
5. Never eat standing up. One of the easiest ways to sabotage your diet is to 'eat without thinking'. Treat eating with the respect that it deserves. Fix yourself a plate. Sit down and eat properly. You'll be less likely to just pop food into your mouth without paying attention.
6. Spread your meals out. When you eat three meals a day, your body tends to store whatever it doesn't need right that moment. By adopting a 'grazing' habit, you'll keep your metabolism working throughout the day. Have a small breakfast, a piece of fruit with crackers or toast at mid-morning, a light lunch and an 'after school snack' mid-afternoon. Just remember that you're breaking up the same amount of food into smaller meals, not ADDING more food into your daily diet.
7. Grab a fruit juice or flavored water instead of soda. Soda is nothing but empty calories. No nutrients, lots of sugar. Instead, grab a bottle of 100% fruit juice, or water flavored with a spritz of fruit.
8. Drink water. Even the FDA recommends at least 8 full 8 ounce glasses of water a day to keep your body working right. When you're dieting, you should drink even more. It's not just that full feeling - water helps your body digest foods properly and cleans out your system.
9. Can't afford a gym membership? Make a pact with friends to exercise together. Make a date at least three times a week to play volleyball, take a walk or spend half an hour doing something active.
10. Skip the potato chips. Fatty snacks fried in hydrogenated oil like potato chips contribute fat and calories and not much else. Instead, grab a handful of dried fruit or a cup of yogurt for the same amount of calories and a lot more nutritional benefit.
10 Real Life Diet Tips
By Unknown
There are actually diet rules out there that are meant to be broken? Yes, recently many dated diet guidelines and myths are up for speculation. You’ve probably heard all these silly rules before, but experts weigh-in on the worthiness of these supposed truisms - most of which won't help you lose weight or make dieting any easier.
10 Food Rules You Can Ignore:
1. Eating at night will pile on the pounds. The total calories you consume over a 24-hour period or over a week is what causes you to gain weight, and when you eat these calories doesn't matter.
2. It's best to eat at the same times every day. Eat when you're hungry, not when the clock says it's time to eat.
3. Dieting with a buddy always makes weight loss easier. Common goals may pay off but weight loss is a personal journey.
4. Dietary fat keeps you feeling full longer, so you'll eat less. Fat does take longer to digest, but it will not help you control your appetite. Foods likely to fight off hunger the longest are protein foods, followed by carbohydrates, then fats.
5. When you blow your diet, you might as well wait until the next day to get back on track. Nothing could be farther from the truth- always try to get right back on track with your next meal.
6. Refusing food at a party or when visiting is rude. Turning down food that you know will blow your diet is socially acceptable.
7. Skipping a meal every now and then will help you lose. Skipping a meal means you will be so hungry at the next meal that you are likely to overeat. This can also help lead to a slowdown of your metabolism.
8. Bread is fattening, nuts are fattening, pasta is fattening. Whole-wheat bread/pasta is a great source of nutrients, and it won't make you gain weight more than any other food with the same number of calories.
9. All calories are equal. This is somewhat true, however; you'll get more nutrients from a 100-calorie apple than from a 100-calorie portion of white bread. Choose healthier items if you are losing weight, or controlling your hunger.
10. If you don't clean your plate, you're wasting food. If you just don't feel right leaving the table until you've cleaned your plate, underestimate your hunger and put less food on your plate to begin with, or you may overeat.
Don’t believe everything you hear! Much of it is just superstition. Now you can tell your friends the real truth. In the end, nutrition experts say, many of the food and dieting rules we hold dear are meant to be broken - without guilt!
10 Food Rules You Can Ignore:
1. Eating at night will pile on the pounds. The total calories you consume over a 24-hour period or over a week is what causes you to gain weight, and when you eat these calories doesn't matter.
2. It's best to eat at the same times every day. Eat when you're hungry, not when the clock says it's time to eat.
3. Dieting with a buddy always makes weight loss easier. Common goals may pay off but weight loss is a personal journey.
4. Dietary fat keeps you feeling full longer, so you'll eat less. Fat does take longer to digest, but it will not help you control your appetite. Foods likely to fight off hunger the longest are protein foods, followed by carbohydrates, then fats.
5. When you blow your diet, you might as well wait until the next day to get back on track. Nothing could be farther from the truth- always try to get right back on track with your next meal.
6. Refusing food at a party or when visiting is rude. Turning down food that you know will blow your diet is socially acceptable.
7. Skipping a meal every now and then will help you lose. Skipping a meal means you will be so hungry at the next meal that you are likely to overeat. This can also help lead to a slowdown of your metabolism.
8. Bread is fattening, nuts are fattening, pasta is fattening. Whole-wheat bread/pasta is a great source of nutrients, and it won't make you gain weight more than any other food with the same number of calories.
9. All calories are equal. This is somewhat true, however; you'll get more nutrients from a 100-calorie apple than from a 100-calorie portion of white bread. Choose healthier items if you are losing weight, or controlling your hunger.
10. If you don't clean your plate, you're wasting food. If you just don't feel right leaving the table until you've cleaned your plate, underestimate your hunger and put less food on your plate to begin with, or you may overeat.
Don’t believe everything you hear! Much of it is just superstition. Now you can tell your friends the real truth. In the end, nutrition experts say, many of the food and dieting rules we hold dear are meant to be broken - without guilt!
10 Diet Rules You Can Break
By Unknown
Eating is an essential part of life. We cannot sustain life for long without eating, so it is important that we take the time to learn how to eat well in order to have the best life possible. Our views of eating and the eating practices we adopt will affect our lives and our health in significant ways in the months and years ahead. Eating well can literally change everything.
Eating can be both a blessing and a curse. Many people struggle with eating because they cannot keep it in balance. They end up eating too little or too much and do not live healthy lives because of it. We all know the dangers of eating too little. Probably everyone has at least one friend that struggles with an eating disorder of some kind. That friend just cannot seem to get a grip on their eating patterns and they are unhealthy because of it. They think about or talk about food almost constantly.
Other people struggle with eating too much. Eating more food than we need to live is something that the majority of people, at least in the West, struggle with. Eating is associated with most kinds of social activities and events and therefore people learn to eat for reasons other than to satisfy hunger or prolong their health. Eating becomes a way to experience pleasure or to numb the pains of life.
The bottom line is that whether people struggle with eating too little or with indulging on food too much, they are not using food in ways that are healthy and life-promoting. Eating, while it is definitely meant to bring people pleasure and satisfation, is primarily to be a means of sustaining a healthy life. Our problems begin anytime eating is neglected or indulged in beyond what is necessary.
Take a look at your eating patterns. You may be surprised to see that you have established unhealthy eating habits over the years. Perhaps your schedule for each day is centered around when you can have meals or a snack. If so, there is a high chance that food has become a bit too high of a priority. Anytime that your thoughts are consumed with food, whether with restraining yourself from it or with consuming more of it, you are thinking of eating and of food in unhealthy ways.
Giving eating a rightful place in our lives without allowing it to become consuming is the key. Make an effort to keep your perspective about eating balanced and healthy. Your life will be better and longer because of it.
Eating For Life
By Unknown
Habits are formed when people repeat certain behaviors so often that they eventually become a learned behaviors or program within the brain. Bad eating habits are the most common cause of obesity. Unhealthy eating habits also can lead to diseases. The following list are the bad habits that largely responsible for leading people to obesity. Please try to eliminate these habits from everyday life.
• The habit of eating fats and not chewing the food well – causes poor digestion and the formation of fat layers in our body. Chew each bite at least fifty times. Fats, cholesterol, sodium and simple sugar have all be named as being bad for health when eaten in large quantity.
• Eating sweet baked foods causes the absorbing walls of your digestive tract to be plugged up by starch and promotes the production of excess amounts of mucus in our body. Moreover, sweets promote weight gain. It is better to treat yourself to dried fruits, seeds (sunflower, pumpkin), and moderate amounts of nuts.
• Eating too much snacks and junk food, especially those which high in salt and sugar content.
• Snacking on high calories foods after dinner or eating more than one helping of food for dinner.
• Incorrect combining of food products makes digestion difficult and weakens the digestive mechanisms, because different foods need different digestive enzymes. Incorrect combining causes some food to putrefy and some to be turned into fat.
• Irregular meal times or skipping meal too often.
• Eating too fast and swallowing food without proper chewing.
• Lying down after meals activates mechanisms that normally function in sleep and takes the focus away from digestion. Undigested food is turned into fat.
• The habit of eating while watching TV takes away the intimacy of our meals. If we eat while watching TV, out brain will gets confused. This interferes with our digestion and causes overeating.
• Eating while irritated
• Eating before bedtime or at night is harmful
• Overeating. The excess food is converted into fat that is stored under the skin, first, in cells in the buttocks and around the waist, and later in the thighs, shoulders and arms.
• The habit of eating mostly cooked food products makes us deficient in natural vitamins and microelements. We only get empty calories from these products; they do not have much nutritional value.
• Eating too much meat and fried food which are rich in saturated fats and cholesterol.
Unhealthy Eating Habit Lead to Obesity
• The habit of eating fats and not chewing the food well – causes poor digestion and the formation of fat layers in our body. Chew each bite at least fifty times. Fats, cholesterol, sodium and simple sugar have all be named as being bad for health when eaten in large quantity.
• Eating sweet baked foods causes the absorbing walls of your digestive tract to be plugged up by starch and promotes the production of excess amounts of mucus in our body. Moreover, sweets promote weight gain. It is better to treat yourself to dried fruits, seeds (sunflower, pumpkin), and moderate amounts of nuts.
• Eating too much snacks and junk food, especially those which high in salt and sugar content.
• Snacking on high calories foods after dinner or eating more than one helping of food for dinner.
• Incorrect combining of food products makes digestion difficult and weakens the digestive mechanisms, because different foods need different digestive enzymes. Incorrect combining causes some food to putrefy and some to be turned into fat.
• Irregular meal times or skipping meal too often.
• Eating too fast and swallowing food without proper chewing.
• Lying down after meals activates mechanisms that normally function in sleep and takes the focus away from digestion. Undigested food is turned into fat.
• The habit of eating while watching TV takes away the intimacy of our meals. If we eat while watching TV, out brain will gets confused. This interferes with our digestion and causes overeating.
• Eating while irritated
• Eating before bedtime or at night is harmful
• Overeating. The excess food is converted into fat that is stored under the skin, first, in cells in the buttocks and around the waist, and later in the thighs, shoulders and arms.
• The habit of eating mostly cooked food products makes us deficient in natural vitamins and microelements. We only get empty calories from these products; they do not have much nutritional value.
• Eating too much meat and fried food which are rich in saturated fats and cholesterol.
Unhealthy Eating Habit Lead to Obesity
Unhealthy Eating Habit Lead to Obesity
By Unknown
Human body needs a balance of different kinds of foods to grow and be healthy. Food provides the body with energy, helps, build strong bones and muscles and helps keep the body’s systems working properly.
Tips of healthy eating are:
*Balance the food with exercise
*Diet with plenty of grain, vegetables and fruits
*Diet with low fat food
*Eat lot of different foods
Nutrient are the special parts of food that a body needs to live, grow and stay healthy. A balanced diet contains six nutrients. They are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, mineral and water.
Foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, potatoes, pasta and rice give energy that lasts. When the person are playing sports, these will keep the body going until the end of the game.
The benefits of healthy eating include:
*Longer and healthier life span
*Greater feelings of positive health
*Plenty of energy for work and recreation
*Correct weight – not too high and not too low
*Healthy immune system
Healthy Eating
Tips of healthy eating are:
*Balance the food with exercise
*Diet with plenty of grain, vegetables and fruits
*Diet with low fat food
*Eat lot of different foods
Nutrient are the special parts of food that a body needs to live, grow and stay healthy. A balanced diet contains six nutrients. They are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, mineral and water.
Foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, potatoes, pasta and rice give energy that lasts. When the person are playing sports, these will keep the body going until the end of the game.
The benefits of healthy eating include:
*Longer and healthier life span
*Greater feelings of positive health
*Plenty of energy for work and recreation
*Correct weight – not too high and not too low
*Healthy immune system
Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating
By Unknown
Such emotions include stress, anxiety, uncertainty, guilt, anger, pain, depression, loneliness, sadness or boredom. When the person eat because he is anxious, it is emotionally eating. When the person eat because of happy, it is emotionally eating.
Emotional eating something everyone does to some degree, especially in cultures where people value the preparation and sharing of food.
It is often done secretively and usually involves high calorie, high fat foods. Carbohydrate rich foods simulate the release of a brain chemical called serotonin that regulates appetite, mood and sleep.
It makes perfect sense that the people crave carbohydrate food when feeling blue, since these are the very foods that raised serotonin levels and lift their spirits.
Excessive emotional eating hinders proper weight management. Emotional overeating is not diagnosable eating disorder.
In general, eating for any reason other than nutrition is a form of emotional eating.
Emotional eating
Emotional eating
By Unknown
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