Eight Ways To Start Healthy Eating For Weight Loss

There are many ways to lose weight. Some are healthy, many are unhealthy. When you adopt a protocol of healthy eating for weight loss, you will discover many new ways to lose weight, which will also keep you healthy.

Here are eight simple ways to help you get started.

1. You are overweight and/or unhealthy because you are consuming more calories than you are burning. So to lose weight or cure your diseases, you need to reduce your calorific intake or burn it off. Both is best. However, be very much aware that although calories are important, they are not the end of the story.
2. The quantity of food you eat is insignificant. It is the quality of the food that counts. If you eat all the healthy foods, even in huge amounts, you cannot put on weight. You will lose excess weight and regain your health.
3. Even if your parents, grandparents, siblings and children are overweight, it is unlikely to be a hereditary problem. It is much more likely to be a 'bad habits learned' problem. You naturally eat the same foods you ate as a child. Your parents didn't know any better.
4. Not everyone either wants to become a gym junky or has the energy. However exercise is essential to good health and weight loss. People who are active all day, with their job, probably get enough overall exercise. Those with a sedentary job need to get some exercise. It can be as little as walking to the train station twice a day. Or taking your dog for a walk twice a day. Yoga is an excellent way to become supple and to relax after a hard day's work. Do what works for you.
5. Don't try to lose weight rapidly. It is likely to return just as speedily. Gradual weight loss takes time, but it also cements the changes into your consciousness. This means old habits, that haven't been serving you well, are exchanged for good, workable habits
6. Only you are responsible for your weight and your health. Don't blame anyone else. Only you have the power to make changes in your life. Only you are responsible for what you put into your mouth.
7. Learn to ignore, or tune out, all the colourful advertising extolling the 'healthy' foods in fast food outlets. Use your common sense.
8. Learn to use your intuition. This will give you far more valuable assistance about what is healthy for you, than any 'expert'.

Remember that healthy eating for weight loss can be far more economical than your current diet.

Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant specialising in diet-for-health and homeopathy. She treats both people and animals within these two disciplines. For more information, visit: Healthy Eating For Weight Loss

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