If you want to lose weight, you need choose your diet wisely. Food, which you eat, has a great impact on your weight. Therefore, if you want to lose weight and stay fit, follow few healthy eating habits. In the book ‘Forever Young Forever Fit’ author Nik Helbig has provided useful diet tips that will help you to keep your weight under control and improve overall fitness.
1. Breaking down meals:
Instead of eating just once or twice in a day, try to break down your meals in small proportions. This improves your metabolism. Try to eat food after regular intervals of 3 to 4 hours. Keep some fruits in your bag, which you can eat between two meals. Eat food that is high in vitamins, minerals, and proteins and low in the calorie content. While eating food, try to avoid seating in front of the TV or talking over the phone. This may cause overeating.
2. Don’t skip meals:
For most of the people, dieting simply mean skipping meals and ignoring hunger pangs. It is true that your body uses stored fats if you starve yourself. However, the next time you have a meal, the body is tend to restore more fats. So, eventually you end up in putting on weight. Skipping meals is not a healthy way to reduce weight. For fitness, you have to keep your stomach satiated with healthy food.
3. Breakfast:
According to many dieticians, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Kick start your day with a healthy breakfast that will supply adequate energy to your body. If you skip breakfast, you are more likely to overeat while taking your midday meal. This may increase the risk of weight gain. Overeating may also cause metabolic disturbance. Eating breakfast ensures that your body has adequate energy. Breakfast makes your mind alert, improves mood and help you to avoid overeating.
4. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables:
Fruits and vegetables contain a great amount of essential nutrients that are necessary for fitness and overall wellbeing. Visit a farmers market frequently so that you can buy fresh vegetables and fruits. Fruits are the best option to eat in the breakfast. As fruits and vegetables contain disease-fighting nutrients, your immunity is improved. Include vegetables in your daily meals for a healthy and fit body.
5. Mindful eating:
Eating food just because you are ‘supposed to’ eat, boredom eating, comfort eating, emotional eating, night eating, having junk food and packaged food frequently, eating high calorie and oily food are all bad habits that results in weight gain. Stay away from these habits and start mindful eating. Keep in mind that, whatever you eat must contribute to your energy level, fitness and wellbeing. In the book ‘Forever Young Forever Fit’, you will find extremely effective and easy to follow diet tips that will surely help you for weight loss and stay young.
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