Healthy Weight Loss Tips That You Can Use to Lose Weight

Losing weight can often be confusing, hard work and sometimes dangerous. I say dangerous because there are a lot of diets out there that people do that can damage their bodies. For this reason when dieting you should always be careful and use some common sense.

In this article I will give you some healthy weight loss tips.

1. Always try to eat real foods

There are many diets that promote juicing your foods or only drinking shakes. This is a bad idea, as prolonged dieting in this manner can cause damage to your gums and teeth. Dieters who often follow these juice diets will find themselves bleeding from their gums, due to them not having to use their teeth to chew. Eating real solid food will avoid this problem all together. It will also keep you feeling fuller for longer.

2. Don't cut out fats

A lot of diets are low fat or no fat. This is downright silly and dangerous. Our bodies need dietary fat to survive, without fat in our diets we would die. It is as simple as that. We can survive without carbohydrates and even without protein, but our body needs fat.

Dietary fat regulates many of our hormones. Not eating enough will cause serious problems and can even cause us our mood to feel off. For this reason many diets often make the people doing them feel horrible, therefor you should eat healthy fats in your diet.

3. Healthy food still contain calories

It makes me so angry when I see people who think just because they are eating healthy that they will lose weight. No this is not true. A healthy food or a unhealthy food, they all contain calories. A sweet potato could contain 300 calories while a bar of chocolate could contain 200. The sweet potato maybe more healthy, but it still contains more calories.

Eating more calories than your body needs will cause you to gain weight. It doesn't matter if those calories are from salmon and kale or chocolate and sweets, therefor make sure you are not eating more calories than your body needs otherwise you will end up gaining weight and not losing it.

4. Carbs are not evil

Every dieter seems to think carbs are bad. They are not. Carbs provide energy and each gram of a carbohydrate contains the same amount of calories as protein. I recommend eating carbohydrates such as oats, whole wheat pastas and sweet potatoes to keep you feeling fuller for longer.

5. High protein diets are the best

In my opinion high protein diets are the only way to diet if you're looking to lose weight. High protein diets allow you to make dieting easy. Eating a high protein diet will allow you to feel like your not dieting at all. Quite often I have found myself dieting but feeling too full to eat my next meal, yet I still lose weight this is because the protein takes longer to break down.

The most important reason to eat a high protein diet however is because it allows you to keep your muscle mass while losing fat. This is very important if you want to look good while losing weight. Too often I see people who lose both muscle and fat and are not happy with the way they look after dieting because they simply don't look right. The reason for this is that muscle gives you the fit athletic look, the more you have the better you will look.

Conclusion

Dieting can be hard if you don't know where to start, but it does not have to be.

By Michael Smalling

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Cut Out Sugar and Eat Saturated Fats to Fight Obesity - Part 1

Quit sugar, eat MORE fat, and become slimmer and healthier.

It has been reckoned that in the UK (2016) almost six out of ten women and two-thirds of men are overweight. Dietary guidelines are to eat lots of carbohydrates, consume little so-called 'heart disease-causing' saturated fats like butter and whole milk, to eat 'low-fat' foods, and to make sure five fruits and vegetables are eaten every day.

It is clear that most of this dietary advice is not working. The part about fruit and vegetables is fine because those foods are sources of healthy dietary fibre, vitamins and minerals.

The obesity epidemic is out of control. Yet many people do their best to 'eat less' and to 'exercise more'. But we continue to get fatter and heavier. The only thing that the dietary guidelines seem to be doing is to fuel a 'billion-pound diet industry'. The population is turning into one of "sugar-craving, disappointed yo-yo dieters".

Thankfully, this health disaster may now be at a turning point. South African and U.S. scientists have shown that the ignorantly promoted 'low-fat, more carbohydrate' diet recommended by food experts has been extremely ineffective. It even looks like these recommendations could be directly to blame for the obesity crisis.

The new thinking is that, regardless of weight, we should be eating MORE fat, not less, and severely restricting if not cutting out altogether sugars. Typical among these sugars are common sucrose (table sugar) and the very unhealthy fructose.

Leading UK cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, has set out the case for a radical change of thinking to bring in a low-carbohydrate diet that is high in natural saturated fats. This could actually be the key to ending the obesity epidemic and reducing the escalation of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

A 'low-carbohydrate, healthy fat' diet could be the way out of sugar addiction and the key to losing weight and staying slim forever. 

   

This new approach is about re-thinking what we eat, starting with stopping eating sugar-rich foods. Unfortunately, most people eat the equivalent of 22 teaspoons of sugar every day. The trouble is that sweet things are very addictive - they are like opiates.

The sugary, carbohydrate-rich diets we have depended on for years, together with all the fancy snacks available, have left many of us 'hooked' on sugar. But it is not only sweet treats that get us hooked. It is also the 'complex carbohydrates' such as starch - which break down into simple sugars - that maintain our cravings.

All processed foods contain sugar. If you 'read the labels' you may be startled to discover just how much sugar is added to packaged, canned and bottled products.

With sugars playing such a big part in our lives, it seems impossible to quit them. That is the opiate link.

Continued in Part 2...

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