High Fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads. Remember how I told you to increase the fiber content in your food; well this is the answer to that. It is not only better in terms of the fiber content but also in terms of the protein content as well.
Don t eat anything like candy, rice, stuff like that after 6:00. I hope it helps.
Hi,After reading your question I saw you were interested in optimizing your nutrition [(-:] so I thought I would give you some pointers I have learned the hard way from my own bad uninformed choices so you could learn about good advice and bad advice. A ��reference�� diet plan is given below in PS1 that I had found to be the best possible nutrition for me to cure my heart disease problem from too many carbs for too long, but that diet was before my present health issues - that I know are cholesterol and calcium related because these foods are triggers for me now.I used to be an old advocate of Atkins diet before I knew what I now know, so nowadays I do not recommend Atkins high protein and fat diet for long term but would always recommend a high- nutrition VEGAN diet replacing the meat with lentils - but many people will not do this. Sooo even though I give a meat diet plan in PS1 below, let me share a little more to help you understand not only how to lose weight - but how to be stronger and healthier for the long term.You may already know this but if not let me first explain that keeping to a plan that fights against bad habits that might be on the verge of seriously tearing down your body is sometimes pretty tough - but being fit and strong versus being overweight and/or sickly is all about (1) how many calories you eat versus how many you burn and (2) IF your calories are primarily the BEST QUALITY PROTEINS or primarily junk sugar-carbs.Please consider that it is not just how few cabs and fats and how much lean protein you eat in order to become stronger, but how many absorbable non-toxic vitamin and minerals are obtained from the protein or fats you would eat.For instance, egg whites have 89% protein, but egg whites are similar in its nutrition per calorie as to eating sweet corn that usually has only about 15% protein. So even though the higher protein egg whites ��look�� good IF ALL you look at is the protein content, it is really not much better for you than sweet corn. Not good if you understand that they identified the pellagra problem in the 1930��s south was from a diet of primarily sweet corn. [See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra ]The same is true of tenderloin versus spinach. Boiled spinach has about 56% protein to beef tenderloin��s 61% protein, but spinach has almost 700%, or seven times, the vitamin and minerals of tenderloin calorie per calorie. The problem with spinach is that the spinach calories would cost about ten times the cost of beef calories. Spending $50 per day to eat several pounds of spinach may make any animal as strong as a triple crown race horse, but few people can afford to spend that much for their food - so meat protein is what people typically purchase. Even so many longevity experts are encouraging that people would start to eat 200 calories of leafy greens a day.Take a few minutes to understand ��good�� nutritional advice versus poor advice and I hope you will have learned something from my ��mistakes�� that will soon help you along your way. My best to you and for your good health,A1[(-:]PS1 �C This was my diet plan before I became a 99.9% VEGAN:Your body s fat with no water in it has 9 calories per gram which is about 4091 calories per pound of fat. The number usually used is 3500 calories which ��assumes�� 14.4% water in an average person��s fat, but this would depend upon if you ate salty or spicy foods a-lot before you would start a new regimen. If it were me I would choose 2 pounds a week for two months rather than a pound a week for four months and start at reducing 500 calories a day and adding 30 minutes of exercise five times a week. - but that is me. You will lose a lot of water weight at first when you eliminate salt and spicy foods, probably about four to five to ten pounds a week for one to two weeks.IF I were you and I had to have ��meat�� I would eat home boiled skinless chicken or crock potted beef heart or round steak and also lentils and also spinach together as a meal to improve nutrition, absorption, and the foods passage through your gut to the stool. About 1200 calories a day total which consist of 100 to 200 calories of squeeze drained spinach with a light sugar_vinaigrette, 600 calories from 15 ounces of lentils, and less than 100 calories of tomato marinara sauce, and no_more_than 400 calories of ��meat�� which is about 8 ounces, especially when chicken has only ~68% the nutrition per calorie of properly grown lentils. Spinach has ~500%, five times, the nutrition per calorie of lentils and both together are also necessary for me to buffer my digestion/elimination. I never eat meat alone since it used to cause reddish stools for me.
A lot of the answers you will see here will tell you to take some sort of supplement. Don t take diet pills. They are unnatural and dangerous. It is not the lack of pills that got you heavy; that is not the fix you need. It was (most likely) improper diet and lifestyle that got you the extra weight. That is the fix you need.The best way to lose weight is through the principles of balance and moderation. You need to eat good food and eat enough of it.Shoot to lose 1-3 pounds per week. No more. Don t go hungry, just keep yourself filled with good, natural foods.Don t worry about calories. Caloric science is flawed for several reasons. 1) it assumes 100% absorption, but we all absorb and excrete different amounts; 2) It assumes all calories are processed the same, but calories from natural sources are burned more slowly and evenly than from refined sources; 3) It assumes that the amount of energy released by combustion (burning) in a lab is the same amount of energy released when the food is broken down enzymatically in the gut; 4) It assumes that the same exercise done by different people will burn the same amount of exercise, but different exercises will be harder or easier for different people; 5) Correlation does not prove causation. People who are heavier eat more calories: did the calories make them heavy, or did being heavy make them need more calories? Maybe they are both symptoms of a deeper problem. 6) people in China consume 25-40% more calories; even the sedentary office workers have more calories and less obesity than we.Asian cultures have long ago figured out how we should be eating, Ever since we have looked to science to tell us how to eat we have seen more obesity and diet-related disease. If we eat like the Asians, we will look like the Asians. This doesn t mean you have to eat Asian food, just adhere to the principles that are common to the different cultures and cuisines.You should eat mostly vegetables, mostly cooked (cold and raw foods slow your metabolism because they need to be cooked in your stomach) and a wide variety, mostly fresh and in-season and local, simple grains (more rice, less bread), some fruit, a little meat, no dairy (it s for infants and grows tissue), and no artificial foods.Avoid artificial foods, including sugar substitutes. Don t worry about calories, fat, protein, carbs, nor any one component of food.There are several books that explain this strategy of eating. The Asian Diet: simple secrets for eating right, losing weight, and being well by Bussell explains the diet and its rationale. The Asian Diet: get slim and stay slim the Asian way by Tran has recipes that adhere to the principles. The China Study by Campbell has the science behind the recommendation.Get some exercise every day, but not too much and not always the same exercise. Start slow and work your way up. Calisthenics are great, as is Tai Chi. Walking and swimming are also great. All other exercises should be in a wide rotation.Follow the principles of balance and moderation and you ll be fine. Most diets in America are not balanced nor moderate.Source(s):http://www.theasiandiet.comhttp://www.thechinastudy.com
Exercise more often and drink a lot of water. Don t forget to cut back on the junk food.
Here are my ten top tips to tip the scales your way: CREATE YOUR OWN VIRTUAL REALITY.# EAT NUTRITIOUS WHOLE FOODS.# ELIMINATE HIGH GLYCEMIC FOODS.# DRINK PLENTY OF PURE LIQUIDS.# MOVE YOUR BODY. BUILD MUSCLE.# INCREASE HIGH FIBER FOODS.# CUT OUT BAD FATS, ADD GOOD ONES.# ENJOY DOING IT YOUR WAY.# HAVE A SIMPLE ORGANIZED PLAN.# FORGIVE YOURSELF AND MOVE ON.
50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates. It is a myth that you should try and avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Rather the other way round I should say. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy and so 50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.
Reduce your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help you to lose weight. So the lesser pork you eat the better chances you have of losing weight. And remember that pork includes the pork products as well, things like bacon, ham and sausages.
