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How to Eat Healthy on a Diet

February 13, 2017 2 Comments

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The world today is crazy about eating right and keeping healthy. The obesity has gone beyond epidemic level. As per Niddk report, More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese. Overweight and obesity result from an energy imbalance.

How to Eat Healthy on a Diet

A human body needs a certain amount of energy (calories) from food for proper functioning. Our body weight tends to remain the same when we consume exactly the same calories as it needs. Over time, the excess calories that we consume get converted into fat and result in obesity.

Over the time, we learned the art of dieting, maintaining a balance between calory intake and calory burn. We can control calories by watching what we eat or drink and we can control calories burnt by doing more or less physical exercise.

The fear of gaining excess weight has caused a lot of people to get on diets. There is a lot of information out there available about how to diet and what to eat and what not to eat. The truth is that eating right is very simple; you need to keep healthy.

One thing that most people do not understand is the fact that real food, instead of substitute, is very important for our bodies. From the food that we consume, we get to boost the immunity of our bodies, keep our energy levels up and boost the metabolism of our bodies.

Good food in all the right amounts helps our bodies to continue functioning normally and thus we get to automatically live healthier.

Eating right boost the metabolism of the body; this means that digestion happens right and the body is able to retain the nutrients that it needs to and get rid of all the waste products that it needs to.

A body that retains all the necessary nutrients and gets rid of all the waste that it does not need is definitely a healthy body.

Eating right also boost immunity; this means that the body will be well able to fight off all diseases on its own and prevent them from attacking it; automatically becomes a healthy body.

Do how exactly does one get to eat right when dieting? The truth is the adage garbage in, garbage out applies very critically when it comes to what we feed our bodies.

Balanced diet

If you want your body to take care of you, you need to start taking care of it. You need to feed it right. Remember the three food groups; Carbohydrates, Proteins, Vitamins?

Well, your body needs all three to survive and be healthy. The best way to maintain a healthy diet is to ensure that you have a meal that as all three food groups; a balanced diet it is commonly called.

It is important to understand that each of these three groups has a very important role that it plays in the body. Carbohydrates break down into glucose in the body which is further broken down into energy; thus they are important for energizing the body.

Proteins are body building and are essential for the growth and proper maintenance of our muscles. Especially proteins are becoming cheaper as the competition in the market growing steeper.

Vitamins are extremely good at enhancing the metabolism of the body. It is very important for us to ensure that each of these food groups features in our meals on a day to day basis.

The best way to diet is to ensure that you are eating the right types of food in the appropriate proportions. You need to stop overeating and you need to stop eating a lot of junk food; stick to whole grains and vegetables.

Eat a lot of white meat and also eat a lot of fruits and drink a lot of water. Denying your body food will indeed make it grow thinner but it will just leave you with an unhealthy body that lacks all the vitals that it requires to remain healthy and function properly.

Your end game has to be very clear in your mind, get help

To eat right on a healthy diet, you need to first and foremost find out what your goals are. What exactly are you looking to achieve on this dieting mission?

  • Are you trying to achieve a slimmer body?
  • Are you trying to achieve a more fit body?
  • Are you trying to lose weight?
  • Are you trying to achieve a healthy body?

It is really important that you know exactly what it is that you want to the diet to do to your body. Knowing this will help you to know exactly what foods to include in your diet and which ones to leave out.

Once you have determined your dieting goal, you need to find a nutritionist that will help you through the journey. You do not necessarily have to find one physically, there is a good a number of them available on the internet that can be able to help you out.

Talk to the nutritionist about your goals and exactly what you would want to achieve and let them advise you on the best way to structure your diet.Remember that this is a professional and you will need to take whatever advice that they give you very seriously.

Stick to the foods that they advise you to take and ensure that you instill discipline in yourself to stick to the foods. Let them give you all the information that you require from the best methods to prepare the food to when to eat what and when to avoid what.

Just make sure that throughout your dieting journey, you eat healthily and never deny your body an essential nutrient that it needs.

Forget everything they say about dieting, just watch out that you consume the same amount of calories every day that you burn. That’s the biggest secret upon which multi-billion dollar dieting industry runs.

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  1. TPOHappiness says

    February 16, 2017 at 9:33 PM

    Wait, aren’t you supposed to eat healthy on a diet?

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    • SB says

      February 16, 2017 at 11:26 PM

      Great question, did I indicate anything that warranted this question?

      Reply

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