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Old 08-20-2007, 05:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
Skinny975
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Eating A Healthy Diet

One of the important things you can do for your overall health is to eat a healthy diet. Your diet affects your weight and increases your risks of health diseases. Deciding a healthy diet is easier to say than to do because it is tempting to eat less healthy foods. Different people decide different healthy diet because you might eat this kind of diet while others just cannot stand the food you eat and find its alternative. That’s what health experts are here for, to let us know which food are healthier than others.

What are the principles of healthy eating?

Know What Healthy Food Is and How You Should Eat

When pursuing a healthy eating plan, you should remember the following:

1. Try and Eat a Variety of Different Colored Food - You should remember that different foods have different nutritional values. Food can be rich in antioxidants or Vitamin C. So, when you go to do your regular weekly shop, try and see what different colored foods you can pick up.

Down the fruit and vegetable aisle you should see greens, yellows, oranges and reds. You should have as much of a color variety in your trolley as you can. For example, when picking out fruit pick up strawberries, oranges, pineapple, apples, blueberries and bananas and you will notice what a large color selection you actually have. The same goes for vegetables. Basically, more color means that it is better and healthier for you.

2. Eat Foods from All Food Groups - The problem with many diets these days is the fact that they tell you to cut certain foods from certain food groups, out of the diet altogether. This means that you lose important nutrition and don’t eat as healthy as you could be. So, the answer to a healthy diet is to eat a variety of different foods.

Generally, fruit and vegetables should make up the main portion of your diet but you still need carbohydrates such as potatoes, meat or fish and a little bit of fatty foods like flaxseed oil which many experts recommend as part of a good fat diet. Overall, a diverse mixture of all food groups is needed for a healthy diet!

3. When You Need to Eat Snack, Do It on Healthy Foods – It doesn’t mean that just because you want to lose weight, you’ll have to skip your snack. In fact, snacking can actually be quite good for you just as long as you are eating the right foods.

Generally, when we want to eat snack, we reach for a biscuit or a packet of crisps. However, if you want to eat a healthy snack, then you will have to swap those for nuts, seeds or fruit and vegetables. That way you will get energy, you will also be full until your next meal time and it will be completely healthy.

Since you know what foods you like and what you don’t, you really have to decide for your own healthy eating plan. However, the said tips above can help you to choose the best healthy eating plan for you.

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Practicing a sensible weight loss is not just taking a diet pill - you should live for a long-lasting healthy lifestyle.


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Old 08-23-2007, 12:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Talking Healthy Eating is a major key

I have to agree that eating healthy is a major key. However, some of us eat the bad food for comfort, for stress reduction, or just because it is there and the will power is not.
I am 31 years old. I have three kids. This time last year I weighed over 70lbs over what my frame is supposed to be. I had gestational diabetes with my two youngest children and my mother has type 2 diabetes. My whole life, I heard the same thing from her that I was saying to myself - "I know I shouldn't eat this, but..." and I would make up an excuse. I had tried every diet under the sun and nothing worked at helping my will power to avoid the sugary, fattening, pre-made crap that the stores shove down your throat as you walk into the doors. I tried Metabolife, when it first came out - lost a lot of weight, then found out the health problems associated with it and stopped taking it. I ballooned right back up. It isn't that I didn't know how and what to eat to be healthy. It was that I didn't have the will power to say no anymore to the junk. I tried the South Beach Diet, the Adkins Diet, the starve-yourself-because-you-have-lost-all-hope diet - nothing helped control those cravings that knock you out because "IT WANTS CHOCOLATE NOW!"
That was until about three months ago. I started that Apple Patch Diet. I don't get the jitters. I don't stay up until wee hours of the morning waiting for the energy to leave so I can sleep. I don't eat fifteen cookies at once anymore. And I have lost 26 lbs. I know it isn't WOW, what a large amount in so short of time! But that is because you don't want to lose the weight quickly. It is more likely to come back. But with being able to finally have away to control the cravings instead of them controlling me, is WONDERFUL!
I also have more energy to do things with my kids. I am down from a size 22 W to a size 18. My goal by next summer is to be in a size 12 comfortably and a size 10 tightly. We'll see how it goes. But for now, I have learned how to change my eatting habits, with a little help. Because sometimes people just DON'T have a strong enough will power to do it on their own. Comfort eating can be just as addictive as cigarette smoking. I know this cause I am an ex smoker too.
One last note, as not to ramble on. Exercise is also an important key. Cause if you start at 220 and drop to 150 - where do you think that extra skin is going to go? I use a daily workout of cleaning floors and changing diapers mixed with 20 minutes on an exercise ball, a thirty minute walk after dinner and sometimes a couple of laps in a pool - if the accessability is there. It's not a lot, but it sure is helping tone some flabby areas that I have wanted gone for years.

Oh if anyone would like information on the Apple Patch Diet - You can email me directly and I can give you the sight that I order off of.
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