Best & Worst Advice From Top Diet Plans
By CocoaDiva on Jul 27, 2009 with Comments
Health.com knows you want to lose serious weight, fast, but don’t have time to read every diet book out there. So here are a few tips they put together from some of the current diet plans out there.
Best Advice
Reduce your exposure to unhealthy foods and cues that cause you to eat unhealthy food. You can’t eat what’s not there!
Pick a range for your ideal weight instead of fixating on a particular number. You’ll feel guilt-free when faced with the small fluctuations that occur naturally day-to-day.
Read the ingredients. Don’t eat anything you can’t pronounce.
Try circuit training. The effective, total-body workouts will help you lose weight and inches, as well as boost your metabolism, strengthen your bones, and may even make you more resistant to stress.
Add “petit” and “peu” to your French vocabulary; you can have a little of everything if you stick to small portions.
Differentiate between cravings and hunger. If you can tell the difference between wanting to eat and needing to eat, you can cut out unnecessary calories.
Implement a system of checks and balances for rewarding yourself with the treats you miss the most while dieting. For example, if you long for white bread but couldn’t care less about chocolate cake, enjoy a serving of bread before dinner and skip dessert.
Eat less processed food. Sticking to whole, fiber-rich foods will help you lose weight.
Worst
Eat the exact same thing for lunch—and breakfast too if you can stand it—every day. The lack of variety may bore you to the point of giving up on your diet.
You must eat vegan. The dairy- and animal-products-free lifestyle is just too extreme for many dieters.
Just say, “Oh well.” If you’re really dreading going to the gym, or just dying to have a few more fries, are you really going to be able to just say, “Oh well,” and stick to the rules of your diet? Instead follow one of Beck’s bolder responses to cravings.
Eat raw. Didn’t the raw-food trend already come and go?
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