HCFS ; Weight Loss Concepts

Weight Loss Concepts

The foundation and usually the biggest part of losing weight is not necessarily hard, intense workouts, but your nutritional intake. One of the most effective aids in losing weight is simply to stop eating…..bad stuff that is. Getting on an healthy eating regimen can be hard, maintaining it harder. Going cold turkey on a diet, or anything, rarely works (it is possible though). Replacing bad eating habits with good ones is a start, but to wean yourself (or if on the go) you can eat those convient foods, but limit portion size and make healthy choices.

First off, look at the nutrition facts on anything before you eat it, if possible. That alone should be enough motivation for you to not eat something, or not eat all of it, in one sitting. The calories, saturated fats and all the bad things, shown in exacting amounts, should turn you away. If you know its not the best to eat, then simply don’t eat it.

Spread you meals out to multiple smaller meals per day (roughly 4) instead of large sittings fewer times a day. This will not only combat hunger, but keep you energized and let you body metabolize your food better, opposed to you getting super hungry and going into catabolic mode, eating alot, then the body storing most of the meal as fat instead of using it for fuel.

Next is eating healthy. If you can, prepare healthy meals and / or snacks in advance to fight off having to eat fast foods. Place these meals or snacks in plastic re-sealable containers or zip locks and toss them in a lunch bag or container. Replace unhealthy snacks in between meals with healthy snacks. Instead of potato chips and candy, eat nuts and fruit. Research different nuts and choose the ones with the most nutrients. Nuts are also known to make you feel full and curb appetite. Fruit is also good, just not too much, because of the natural sugars on fruit (it’s nature’s candy essentially). Of course salads are also another good standby, as well as a good protein or granola bar. There are many options available.

If on the go or eating out at a restaurant, use your common sense. When i learned about how long it takes the body to digest red meat, and how it sits in our bodies and builds up, i cut it out of my diet. So when i eat fast food, instead of the traditional burger, i only eat the fish or chicken sandwiches that are on the menu. Its cleaner and healthier (in my opinion) than the beef. If i get fries Im always tempted to get the largest one, but i strive to get the smallest. So i can feed my taste for fries without taking all of those calories in (portion control). Same thing with sodas. I try to avoid soda at all costs and tea can be just as bad as far as the sugars go. So if i get either, ill opt for the small. Im getting the taste to satisfy my body or thirst but in a much smaller serving size , or just get water ! If in a restaurant setting, look at the menu and judge how healthy particular items are, and base your choices accordingly. Another thing is not eating too close to bed time. This not only increases weight gain, but is not healthy for your body and digestive system either. Don’t eat too close to bed time, and try to make that last meal a clean one.

Activity of some sort is important, but a lot of the time people will just put the calories and fats back in their body. They will workout and burn say, 500 calories, then reward themselves with something that has double or more calories than what they burned. This is a common trap people enter. Do not burn calories and fat with activity and diet during the week, just to binge and put it all back in your system during the weekend.

This is a quick, rough overview of how to adjust and manipulate your diet for weight loss. As you implement these concepts, you will learn more about how you can further do so through trial and error and experience.