On Proper Diet

On Proper Diet

Much of proper diet and losing weight is watching your diet!
Avoid excessive carbs - chips, pizza, bread, breadsticks, pasta, rice, tortillas, burritos, tacos, soft drinks – these are simple carbs, and have little nutritional value. You need complex carbs (vegetables and fruits) to stay alive, roughly 30-40% per meal - but overdoing with simple carbs is unnecessary.

Read the labels! Anything with artifical anything is bad for you, treat anything with high fructose corn syrup as poison. Sugar is better than both of these things!

Avoid any foods with artifical color, flavor, sweeteners, and preservatives, as well as ingredients you don’t know or can’t pronounce. Avoid enriched white flour, transfatty acids and triglycerides.

Eat more foods without labels: Try to eat fresh, organic foods like fruits, carrot sticks, celery, almonds (unsalted and unflavored), walnuts, raisins, dried fruits as snacks...

Limit yourself to maybe 1 day a week of eating what you want without worry!
Eat only about 2/3 full. But eat 6 – 8 times a day.

All you can eat buffets are deadly!

Set time bound, measurable goals - realistically! If you only think your goal is weight loss, that is wrong, as muscle weighs more than fat. You have to look at your BMI (Body Mass Index), blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, clothing size, weight, and overall fitness.

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