Eating
Healthy for Weight Loss
6
Tips to Eating
Healthy
Are you
looking to lose weight and start a healthy eating plan?
Then these tips will help you build your healthy menu. Healthy
eating is a lifestyle change and should not be a short term
diet. Small changes in your eating habits can help you achieve your
weight loss goals.
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Eating
Healthy Weight Loss Tip #1
Choose
Whole Foods
If you are like me, you want a piece of
bread now
and then. I used to eat white bread until I started reading up on what
types of foods are healthier, and guess what; white bread wasn’t one of
them.
Make sure it is 100% whole wheat bread. When
you
read
the ingredients, it should say whole wheat and not processed whole
wheat. If it is processed, then it is no longer 100% whole
wheat.
In addition to selecting the right foods you need to watch portion sizes.
Too much of anything can be a bad thing so monitor the foods
and portions.
Eating
Healthy for Weight Loss Tip #2
Keep
it Natural
Similar to making sure you are getting whole
foods, all your foods
should be in it's natural state or as close to natural as possible.
Foods that have been processed lose some of the nutritional
value
and often times increase the calories or fat content during the process.
A
good example would be tomatoes versus tomato sauce. A medium
tomato has only 22 calories, no fat, 5 g carbs and 6 mg sodium
However 4 ounces of tomato sauce (approximately the same
serving
size as the medium tomato) has 36 calories, no fat, 8 g carbs and 587
mg of sodium. The same can be said for fruit and veggie juices. Check out this article on why you should eat your fruits and veggies instead of drinking them.
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Tip
#3
Create
Healthy Recipes
We all want healthy recipes, but don’t always want to give up our
favorite recipes.
Take a look at your recipes and see how you can
alter them to make it healthier. For instance, do you fry your chicken?
Try baking instead sprinkled with some of your favorite spices or try
to find a healthy alternative to cooking in oils. Here's an article on ways to reduce fat through cooking methods.
Same goes for baked goods. Replace the oil with
apple sauce. This will keep that cake moist but without all the fat.
Try using sugar substitutes as well.
Switch from whole milk to 1% or fat free skim
milk. When I first switched to skim milk I wasn’t thrilled about the
taste. But now, I can hardly tell that its fat free.
Share your favorite healthy recipe. Go to the healthy recipes
page and submit your newly created healthy recipe.
Be sure to search this site for recipes using this
custom
search tool.
Eating
Healthy Weight Loss Tip #4
Less
sugar

Switch from regular sweetened drinks to diet
drinks. Also, be careful of the amount of fruit juices you drink. A
glass of juice has as many calories ounce for ounce as a soda. So limit
your juice to just one 8oz glass a day or dilute it with water.
Read
the labels and watch out for things that are
high in sugar. Try the sugar free or reduced sugar alternatives for
these foods. Sugar gives you no real benefits and is just empty
calories, so reduce your sugar intake where you can. You must reduce
your calorie intake for weight loss, so make the calories
count by adopting a healthy eating weight loss plan.
Here are even more ways to cut calories to lose weight and eat
healthy.
Eating
Healthy Weight Loss Tip #5
Don't
Drink and Diet
Dieting and drinking are not a great combination
for losing weight. But, there will be occasions where you want to
celebrate and have a drink.
Just remember, the best way to lose weight is to
keep everything in moderation. This includes your alcohol intake.
Some alcoholic drinks rate better than others as
far as calorie content is concerned. Always read the labels to know how
many calories you are consuming, even in your drinks.
Check
out this article Diet friendly alcohol choices on
sparkpeople.com
Eating
Healthy Weight Loss Tip #6
Add
Fruits and Veggies
Are you
getting enough of your
fruits and
vegetables? Recommendation from the experts is to get 5 – 9
vegetable and fruit servings a day, so eat up.
Fruits and vegetables are a great addition to your
healthy weight loss plan for a few reasons. One, they tend to make you
feel more satisfied as you can eat a larger volume of these foods
(especially the veggies), secondly they give you fiber and thirdly,
there are many medical benefits.
Make
your fruits and vegetables colorful and varied. This way you get lots
of vitamins and other valuable nutrients. For instance, try
pumpkin for a great change of pace. There are many health benefits of
pumpkin and pumpkin seeds. If you want to try some
pumpkin in your next meal, check out these yummy healthy
pumpkin recipes.
Did you know that certain fruits and vegetables also help boost your
metabolism. Check out all these metabolism
booster foods.
Having kids in school can make planning meals and eating healthy more
difficult. Be
sure to
read these tips for eating healthy for the entire school year.
Eating
Healthy Tip
of the Month
Keep cool this summer with smoothies. Add some cold refreshing
smoothies to your day to get the benefits fo the fruits without adding
too many calories.
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