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diet diet diet?

im thinking of going on a diet, but all these questions about diet and healthy eating is anyone getting confused lol

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  • Jean
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    I have read a lot about diets and experienced some of them.

    Hereafter the best advices to loose weight that I have put together myself and that I experience mostly every day. It’s more than a diet; it’s a manner to live and to appreciate tasty, healthy meals preferring quality to quantity.

    This diet is long lasting, not annoying, not too difficult and without negative effects. It helps you as well to stabilize your weight than to loose weight, which is of course more difficult.

    1. Eat what is at your taste. Have excellent meals with several dishes.

    2. Choose what is healthy for you.

    3. Try to find out by what dishes you loose weight and by what dishes you put on. People are different in all, what makes put on weight the one, doesn’t necessarily put on flesh to the other one.

    4. Don’t eat more than 1500 to 1800 calories per day. It depends on your objective. If you want to loose about 5 kg in a week, eat only 1200 calories.

    An adult woman needs about 2100 kcal a day.

    An adult man needs about 2600 kcal a day.

    The best is to eat 5 small meals during well dispersed all over the day. But many people lack of opportunities to do so. And many others fail because they are hungry, as they eat less. So they haven’t often enough willpower not to stay to their calories-limit.

    5. Try to get a table of food-calories by downloading it out of the Internet, for instance.

    6. Fix a maximum of weight you will absolutely not pass beyond. Weigh you every day, the best in the morning. So you can easily find out what makes you gain weight or loose weight. It’s much easier than counting calories every day. And the result is the same if you weigh you every day.

    7. Eat slowly and without stress. Let smelt tasty dishes on the tongue. Remember that you eat too much and without control under stress.

    8. Do prefer good tasting dishes with few calories to dishes with many calories: fruit, vegetables, meager meats, meager fish, sweets with less sugar or sweetening or sugar mixed with sweetening 1:1. For myself I prefer good savory meats and fish and then I eat less or I eat several dishes.

    An example: I start with fruits of the season. By the way fruits taste better if you put half a strawberry on a slice of a nectarine on a slice of an apple. Half a berry of a grape on a slice of a pear on a slice of a peach. Or make a salad of fresh fruit.

    An example of several dishes quickly to prepare: Fruit / smoked salmon with salad/ main dish/ dessert.

    Prefer fresh fruit and fresh vegetables or frozen vegetables to fruits and vegetables in cans and glasses.

    9. Drink at least 2 liters of beverage without calories. Water / Water with lemon juice and sweetening / Water with fresh fruit juice and sweetening.

    After getting up drink a glass of warm water.

    Drink sometimes water with a spoon of apple vinegar.

    10. If you discover in the morning that you have put on weight stop eating the same day five hours before going to bed.

    11. Don’t eat much at the evening. Or dishes with few calories: salads, soup of vegetables without butter or cream, prefer milk.

    ATTENTION:

    12. At evening before TV. When the gustatory papillas are excited by some food even of very few calories it becomes difficult to retain the desire to eat something else. The best is to drink water or tea (peppermint, chamomile etc.) without sugar or sweetening.

    - If you can control your envy anymore, than do any activity, the best outside or wherever there is no food.

    13. Mental preparation is important too: be proud that you eat now very controlled, that you prefer quality to quantity, that you make a healthy and a tasty choice of dishes, that you eat like people who know much about good food, that you are self-controlled and have got a strong will to do right, that you have made new experiences and that you know more than many others about good food, that you can share your experiences with others and give them good advices.

    14. Mostly all diets have negative and only short effects.

    15. Make sports, I mean physical exercises, which make you transpire.

    Fact is, that if you are able to make sports during three hours a day, you loose mostly water, you build up muscles and you loose more or less 1000 gr. One hour of exercises is a loss of 300-400 gr.

    Be aware, that the higher you’re overweight, the more you are able to loose weight at the beginning of the diet.

    16. Tips for dishes:

    - Buy vanilla ice cream, mix fruit (strawberries or mangos or kiwis or.) in a mixer, freeze it, and mix the half frozen fruit with the ice cream 1:1. And you will get an ice-cream, better than those you can buy, with half fewer fat and half fewer sugar, and very easy to prepare.

    - Mix fresh fruit; add low fat yogurt and sweetening. Mix all.

    - Eat whole grain bread and rice. If you ask me on this side, I will give you an excellent recipe for whole grain bread easily to bake.

    - Eat only chocolate of more than 75% cacao.

    Don’t ever forget that people are different. No diet and no advices are necessarily adapted to you.

    So every diet has to be adapted to the patient, and not the patient to the diet. That’s what I would like to write on the door of every school: The pedagogical principals must be adapted to the different pupils and not the pupils to the pedagogical principles.

    Best wishes, good will and good results.

    P. s: It exists a variation. Eat as described above the first day, but stop eating at 16 hours. The second day eat only vegetable soup. And go on like this as long as you want. This is a perfectly healthy and efficient diet.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Forget dieting I eat like a horse and I only weigh nine stone. This is what works for me: Eat regularly, if possible every three hours, when your body realises that it's getting a regular supply of food it increases it's metabolism, burning calories quicker and is much less likely to store calories as fat. When eating try to eat a lot of high protein foods and don't go too hard on the carbs. Try go easy on trans and saturated fats although you are allowed the odd treat. Drink lots of water! At least one gallon per day. Tea, coffee and fizzy drinks are O.K but they don' count towards your overall water intake. As for exercise I do some light weight training four days a week and cardiovascular (I use a rowing machine) two days a week with one days rest. There is a common belief that doing cardiovascular exercise on an empty stomach helps burn calories. This is absolute rubbish do not do it. Weight training is a good idea as muscle tissue burns a lot of energy, even while you sleep. You don't have to become Mr/Mrs universe but any fat tissue which you can convert to muscle tissue will not only make you look better but increase your metabolism. Getting plenty of sleep is also important when trying to build muscle. Good Luck

  • 1 decade ago

    Dietings simple. No fast food or eating extremely large meals. Try to eat whole grains, veggies and lean meats. Simple as that. If you fail one day don't give up and keep going.

    Source(s): Lost 42 lbs
  • 1 decade ago

    good luck to ya bt i cnt diet to save my life haha bt i wud rather do healthy eating n its alot beta than trying to obey the rules of a diet x

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  • 4 years ago

    Fruits. Bananas are my favorite. btw did you know that tomatoes are the #1 selling fresh fruit? true beans

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    fruit grows on forest or vines and fruit and vegetables grow in the floor.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Just use more energy than you consume, eat healthily and drink plenty of water, and it's as simple as that. Good luck!

  • 1 decade ago

    the best diet you can use is the eat less and move more :-)

  • 1 decade ago

    i think its all just stupid, you know whats low fat and what not as long as you eat healthily and exercise regularly thats all that matters! the weight will drop off x x x

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm so confused I'm racing through this slab of chocolate.

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