Do You Want to Shed Extra Pounds?

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If you want to lose weight, we all know that eating a healthy diet should be your first priority. Diet is of utmost importance when it comes to lifelong weight management, altho exercise is also important. Healthy, effective and relatively simple changes to your diet will, I hope, give you a healthier daily menu.

1. Make sure to eat at least some healthy fats in most of your meals. Eating sufficient healthy fats is crucial for the maintenance of proper fat burning and muscle building hormone levels in your body. Healthy fats in adequate amounts in your diet helps to keep your appetite under control.

Raw nuts, seeds, egg yolks (from organic free-range eggs), avocados, extra virgin olive oil (highest antioxidant content of olive oils), coconut oil (a great source of healthy saturated fats in the form of medium chain triglycerides), and grass-fed meats (a great source of the healthy fat, conjugated linoleic acid, which can help burn body fat and build muscle), are the healthiest sources of dietary fats.

Try this tip — eat a handful of raw nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds are great healthy choices) 3 times a day about 30 minutes prior to meals. This can help to quell your appetite and give your body some protein, fiber, and healthy fats so that you eat less calories overall at your meals and get more nutrition at the same time due to the high nutrient density of most nuts.

2. With each meal and snack that you eat, try to eat a high quality protein source. To provide good appetite suppression which helps you easily control your calorie intake, eat quality proteins from grass-fed meats, grass-fed raw dairy, and even from plant sources such as nuts and beans.

Getting ample quality proteins also helps you to build lean muscle (if you’re working out hard regularly) so that your metabolism can run at a higher rate from the increased lean muscle on your body.

To accomplish control of your blood sugar and insulin levels, eat sufficient protein at most meals as this will help slow the breakdown of ingested carbohydrates.

3. Although I do not fully agree with extremely low-carb diets, I do believe that one of the main reasons that so many individuals struggle to lose weight for most of their lives is due to eating excessive processed carbohydrates such as refined grain-based starches and refined sugars on a daily basis.

Slowing your body’s blood sugar response is accomplished by the fiber in whole fruits and berries which contain natural sugars. Don’t drink fruit juices which have been processed as they are mostly sugar and contain no fiber.

My experience as a nutrition specialist has shown me that people who begin minimizing their grain intake (from cereals, bagels, breads, pasta, etc.), start to eliminate body fat much more easily. My recommendation is for people to concentrate on their carbohydrate intake of fruits and vegetables solely and minimize eating grains. This simple step alone usually helps people to start managing their weight more easily.

You will start to see a leaner body and more energy in no time if you try to implement these three tips for eating a smarter, healthier diet.

If you find it hard to make the healthiest food choices at the grocery store, here is a good article on choosing healthy foods.

I hope you enjoyed this article and it helps you to start eating healthier and enjoying better health!

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