| Did you know that healthy eating is better than | | | | It probably took you up to thirty years to put on |
| dieting for successful, long-term weight loss? In | | | | three stone. Do you really think you can lose it |
| fact, in order to create a long-term healthy | | | | permanently in three months? You might, but in |
| lifestyle for yourself, you need to ditch those | | | | another few months, you'll have piled it back on |
| diets! Dieting is a short-term 'solution' to a lifelong | | | | again. |
| 'problem'. After all, we need to eat three times a | | | | To lose weight and keep it off permanently, it is |
| day for the rest of our lives. So, if you are | | | | much better to build a healthy eating lifestyle for |
| serious about your health and your weight, you | | | | yourself that you can stick to, for the rest of |
| need to think about how you can eat healthily, | | | | your life, not just the immediate future. |
| three times every day, for the rest of your life! | | | | Have a good breakfast so you don't snack during |
| In the U.S. alone, the diet-industry is now worth a | | | | the day. Cut out fatty sugary treat foods and |
| whopping $20 billion! There are a lot of | | | | snack on seeds, nuts and fruit. Bulk up your meals |
| shareholders out there hoping you don't develop a | | | | with lots of healthy veggies. Switch to wholegrain |
| long-term healthy eating lifestyle that is enjoyable, | | | | breads, cereals, pastas etc. These will fill you up |
| sustainable and based on real, natural, healthy | | | | quicker than the white, refined ones, which have a |
| food! They want you to keep spending your | | | | habit of going straight to your waistline and piling |
| hard-earned cash on their short-term diets and | | | | on tummy weight! Cut out take-outs and |
| diet products, that will have your weight going up | | | | ready-meals. Learn how to cook some basic quick |
| and down like a yo-yo as you hop on and off one | | | | and easy healthy meals and get into the routine |
| diet after another. | | | | of preparing your own food. Make exercise part |
| Many of these diet products and systems actually | | | | of your everyday life. And finally, be happy and |
| cause you to put on weight once you stop using | | | | don't obsess about food. Food and healthy eating |
| them. They have nothing to do with healthy | | | | should be a normal, natural part of life, not |
| eating. Whether it is the 'cabbage soup' method, | | | | something we do to extremes and endlessly think |
| or some powdered mixture, these diets are | | | | about! |
| based on food that is pretty repulsive, so that | | | | So, ditch the diets and build yourself a healthy |
| you eat very little of it. Therefore, you are not | | | | lifestyle instead. And remember my motto |
| taking in sufficient calories for your body to | | | | "Healthy eating is enjoyable!" It really is! Make it |
| function normally. | | | | enjoyable for yourself and then you will stick to it! |
| Your body is programmed by evolution to panic in | | | | Hey, it's all about old-fashioned common sense! |
| this situation and goes into 'starvation mode'. This | | | | *Always follow the advice of your doctor or |
| means that you burn muscle, not the fat you | | | | health professional. |
| want to lose! Then your entire metabolism slows | | | | Copyright. 2008. A. de Blaca. |
| down in order to preserve what energy your | | | | Afric de Blaca is a website publisher and writer on |
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