by Alan Webb
Most people believe that it is not possible to lose weight without going on a diet and sacrificing the foods they love. Since these sacrifices are hard to make, they look for a diet that can give them quick results, so their period of sacrifice will be shorter. When they don't quickly get the results they want, they jump to the next fad diet or promise of weight loss by just taking a pill.
Many people spend their entire adult lives this way, bouncing from one ineffective and sometimes dangerous plan to another. It never occurs to them that the very best way of losing weight is to make smaller, permanent changes to our eating habits and increase their amount of physical activity.
A very good example of one of these small changes would be to increase the number of fresh fruits and vegetables eaten each day. The more these healthy foods are consumed, the less room there is for counter productive foods like sugary snacks. In addition, significant amounts of water are contained in these foods and that helps you feel full even while they are providing you with great nutrition. A lot of these foods also contain large amounts of the vitamins and minerals that are necessary for maintaining a healthy body. By replacing sometimes sugary snacks with these foods you can break free of the addiction to overly sweet foods and you will find that soon you will prefer natural flavors.
Lookout for processed fruits and vegetables as these will usually contain some amounts of sugar, fructose or corn syrup sweeteners. Consuming these foods will not be as healthy, but will also make it much more difficult to give up sugary snacks. You should view sugar as an addictive substance that can create hunger pangs while it keeps you from appreciating naturally sweet foods. Once you start checking foods before you buy them, you will be shocked at how many processed foods contain sugars and realize that the more natural the food, the better.
An example of an excellent source of nutrients is a salad. Making salads with green leaf vegetables actually provides you with lots of water and helps give you the feeling of being full. Very tasty salads can easily be made with some of the unique lettuces available, topped off with cucumbers, tomatoes, spinach and many other fruits and vegetables. Using these as toppings helps avoid oily dressings that contain large amounts of fat that can keep you from losing weight.
One of the best things you can do is to eat more and smaller meals. Humans are naturally built to get hungry about every three hours. The problem is that our society has forced a three meal a day regimen on us so that we don't stop working to eat several times a day. In addition to promoting the three meal schedule, our culture works to convince us that we should eat way more than we should. Not only that, but we are encouraged to eat large amounts of fat. This fat is necessary to keep us from getting hungry, since it will be a long time to the next meal.
These five or six meals each day should, added together, comprise a much smaller amount of food than we are eating in three meals now. By eating small meals only when we get hungry and then eating only what we need, we end up consuming a lot less than we do now. People who have tried this are amazed that they do not often feel hungry like they thought they would. Since there is another small meal in less than three hours, the body does not get hungry that often. People in the habit of eating more, smaller meals eat far less and have no problem avoiding between meal snacks.
Drinking much more water and also drinking a glass about a half hour before each meal will also help you be successful. On those occasions where you do feel hungry between meals, drink some water and wait and see if that makes you feel full. If it does not then go ahead and have the next small meal. Since metabolism and activity levels vary from day to day you should not expect every day to be the same. Some days will require you to eat more. After getting in the habit of listening to your body and only eating what you need, you will find that your weight is going down even though you are not on a diet!
After specializing in websites on exercise, healthy eating and internet for over a year, Kenn Wetzeill has investigated a new topic and created www.stacyadamsboots.com, a site that evaluates and lists the best Stacy Adams Boots.
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