" A healthy and varied diet can help to maintain a healthy body, enhance general wellbeing and reduce risk of diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis"
British Nutrition Foundation 2003
For many people weight loss is one, if not, their main goals but good nutrition is good for us all to feel good and function at an optimum level.
Weight Management
We all seem to emphasise weight loss but forget weight maintenance is a great achievement as it means we have the food-activity balance right.So be proud if you manage to maintain your weight even if you feel that you are currently over weight. From this baseline you can look to making and monitoring small changes in your nutrition and activity to help weight loss.
In theory weight loss is very simple: use more calories than you take in...... but in theory it is a very different matter as our emotions become involved.
Have you tried Atkins, South Beach, 1000 calorie, Cabbage Soup, Slim Fast, Weight Watchers, Slimmimg World "diets"...........?
Well here`s the rocket science answer to weight loss:
DIET`S DON`T WORK!!!
The word diet sets off a negative "I cant` have....." so what do you opt for? the banned foods. It`s all about healthy eating , making healthy choices and not banning "bad" foods.
It`s about being flexible and if you really do need that chocolate bar or packet of crisps at 4 o`clock each day then have it but just include it in your daily nutrition.
It`s not about omitting certain food groups as this does not promote good health and is not a long term answer to weight loss or maintenance. It takes 6-9 months for fat cells to die off so a 3 day or 4 week "diet" will do nothing to achieving long term weight/fat loss. Such "diets" can actually have the adverse effect of lowering metabolism and encouraging fat gain once you stop the diet.
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