To lose weight, you need mandatory physical activity, but diet is also very important. This article will focus on healthy eating.
The rhythm of life has accelerated so much that many do not have time to cook a full meal for themselves and are forced to interrupt with fast food and soda. There are more and more supporters of various nutritional methods, a huge number of all kinds of diets are being developed or simply invented. Not all of them are good for your health, and some are even harmful. Many do not think about the quality of the food they eat. In the meantime, in order to lose weight and not harm yourself, you need to eat properly and high-quality healthy foods.
Let’s try to figure out how you can provide yourself with healthy delicious meals and lose weight at the same time.
First of all, it is important to remember the basic principles of a healthy diet. It should be balanced, moderate, fractional and consist of healthy foods.
To lose weight easier and not cause a constant feeling of hunger and the risk of breaking loose, you need to replace your usual nutritional recipes with healthy recipes. Those. you need to exclude fried foods from your daily diet as much as possible, replace them with boiled, stewed, cooked in a double boiler or multicooker. With this heat treatment, food is not saturated with excess fat and calories, which could then be deposited “for future use” in the form of extra pounds. There are now a lot of healthy recipes for dishes, they can be easily found on the Internet at culinary sites and forums.
Include plenty of good quality fresh vegetables and fruits in your diet. Now the buyer has access to health food stores that offer a wide range of a wide variety of organic healthy quality products, without GMOs and preservatives, grown without the use of herbicides. There you can also find more specialized products that are not available in large retail chains.
You need to eat several times a day in small portions. Then in the evening after work there will be no temptation to empty all the stocks in the refrigerator at once.
If you feel the need, you can arrange fasting days or light dinners. The options can be different combinations of products. For example, milk and brown bread; apples; buckwheat (soak overnight) or boiled rice – you need to choose one of the cereal options and eat it throughout the day; kefir is perfect (it is better to take not fat-free); cabbage – perfectly saturates, but will force the body to spend a lot of energy on its processing.
It is also important to remember that some seemingly healthy foods can lead not to the desired weight loss, but, on the contrary, to its gain, if consumed in unlimited quantities. The trick here lies not so much in the presence or absence of fat in them, but in their high energy value – calorie content, as well as in the sugar content.
Such seemingly healthy fruits and dried fruits contain a large amount of sugar, therefore, despite all the usefulness and the presence of vitamins and minerals, you cannot eat a lot of them.
Freshly squeezed juices, which seem to be healthy and rich in vitamins, also contain a lot of sugar, the use of which is difficult to control.
Everyone knows how beneficial it is to eat nuts, but they are high in fat. They should be consumed in small amounts and not mixed with salt, butter or sugar.
Yoghurts promote good digestion, saturate our body with the calcium, potassium, and B vitamins that it needs so much. But they also contain a lot of sugar. It is best to make your own yoghurt at home without adding sugar. And if this is not possible, then you should find the sugar content on the label.
And the last thing. You need to consume fewer calories than you expend.
So eat to your health, lose weight at your pleasure and enjoy the renewed beautiful healthy body.