It s a good start, largely because by only cooking with and eating fresh, natural ingredients, you know exactly what you re eating; with processed foods, it s easy to think you re eating something nutritious and really not be.The five main food groups are carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, dairy, protein and fats. You should eat a balanced diet taking from all food groups, not cutting out on anything, but making sure you eat plenty of unrefined carbohydrates (brown bread, brown rice, wholemeal pasta, oats etc), plenty of lean protein (fish, poultry, tofu products) and lots of fruit and vegetables. Fats should be eaten in moderation, with greater concentration of unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, and not necessarily removed.The occasional takeaway or processed ready meal, eaten in an overall healthy balanced diet is fine. Though mostly, once you get into the habit of checking ingredients in what you eat, and making up your own meals, you get out of the habit of relying upon processed food. The stuff you make is so much tastier!
Well you shouldn t try to lose weight fast. Losing weight and keeping it off is a gradual process. But yes, eating fresh food instead of processed foods is great. Especially watch out for high fructose corn syrup, they try to sneak that crap into a lot of stuff.
