Everyday Tips For Losing 10 Pounds (5)

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Watch your fat intake. Each fat gram contains 9 calories so by readi ng the total calories on a food and knowi ng the quantity of fat , you can estimate the % of fat, which should in no way exceed 30% of the food.

42.       

Go ea sy on sal t, as too much salt is one of the causes of obesi ty. Make it a point to rea ly cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last year.

43.       

Cha nge from table buter to cholesterol free buter. If you have a choice why not g for it, any way it is healthier for you and tastes just the same. Bear in mind that these smal changes can go a long way towards wei ght reduction.

44.     

Instead of fry ing things try baking them without fat. Baking is by far a healthier method of p rep aring food than fry ing. Baking requires lesser oil or fat.

45.     

Use a non stick f ry in g pan for your cooki ng so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as p ossible and a non stick pan is the p erfect solution to this problem.

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Boil your v egetables instead of cooking them, or even bete r, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables as it is, try steaming them without addi ng a nythi ng at al. This is probab ly the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables.

47.     

Car y parsley with you. Parsley is an excelent thing to munch on in between meals. Not just is it good for you in

terms of vitamin s, but it is also a perfect way of maki ng your breath fresher.

48.

Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are p lent y of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in the market so why not choose wisely . It is much beter for you heart too. Many people just go for shopping and pick up whatever they can. They do not bother to find out if there are nay substitutes for the thi ng th ey are looki ng for.

In the markets of tod ay, you wil be astounded at the ra nge of goods that manufactures have to ofer. In fact with al the hue and cry that is bei ng made about we ig ht loss, low fat substitutes and no fat substitutes are hitin g the stands faster than mushrooms that sp rout after the first rains.

So the next time you head for the stores instead of p icki ng up what you have alway s p icked up, see if there are beter substitutes.

Remember that our bodies need nutrients and not just calories. Fats give us nutrients but with more calories than what proteins or carbohydrates do.

49.       

Avoid crash diets. Th ey are bad for health and you wil gain what you have lost once you take a break. Crash diets are not a solution to we ight loss. It mig ht seem as if you have lost few pounds but the moment you give up on the crash diet every thing wil bounce back with a vengeance.

Take a look at it in this way. Do you think that it is p ossible for a p erson to survive on a crash diet for the rest of his or her life? Certain ly not! So at some time or the othe r, you wil have to give up the crash diet and then you wil see for y ourself that a crash diet does more harm than good on the long run.

Crash diets may have a lot to promis e, but ve ry rare ly do these p romises rin g true. Crash diets are thi ngs pe ople go on in order to wear an old dress or suit for a particular occasion. That's the onl y pu rp ose that they serve as far as I can see.

50.       

God gave us teeth for a reason.

Therefore we should devel op a habit of chewi ng al food including liquid food and soft foods like sweets, ice creams at least 8 to 12 times. This is essential to add saliva to the foo d, as it is on ly in the saliva that sug ar is di gested.

Often we find that whatever goes into our mouth goes down like l ig htning . We hardl y give the saliva any time to act on the food. So does di gestion take place like it should? Do we just stuf our tummies with food that doesn't get d ig ested or in other words that doesn't y ield the benefits that it should?

Everyday Tips For Losing 10 Pounds (4)

31.       

50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohy drates. It is a myth that you should try and avoid carbo hydrates when you are on a diet. Rather the other way round I should say . Carbohy drates are a ready source of energy and so 50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.

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25 to 30% of your diet should be proteins. Various processes and activities are going on in our bodies. Things are broken down and being built up again. Resistance has to be built up, recove ry from disease too is needed and for al this the body needs plent y of proteins so see to it that 25 to 30 % of y our diet consists of proteins.

33.       

Fats should on ly be 15 to 20 %. You need onl y this much of fat in your diet so keep it at that.

34.      

Try and adopt a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is undoubtedly beter for those of us watching our diet. There are a lot of advantag es of keep ing to a veg etarian diet but I don't want to sing an ode to veg etarianism now. What I would suggest is keep to a vegetarian diet as much as you can. Make a non- veg etarian diet a week end event or somethi ng if you find it i mpossible to give up eating al those animals.

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Choose white meat rather than red. White mea t, which includes fish and fow l, is miles beter than red meat, which includes beef and p ork for those tr yi ng to lose weig ht.

36.      

Hi gh Fiber multi grain breads are beter than white breads. Remember how I told you to increase the fiber content in y our food; wel this is the answer to that. It is not on ly beter in terms of the fiber content but also in terms of the protein content as wel.

37.     

Reduce your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can hel p you to lose we ig ht. So the lesser p ork you eat the beter chances you have of losing wei ght. And remember that p ork includes the p ork p roducts as wel , things like bacon, ham and sausages.

38.     

Limit your s ug ar intake. If you can't have thing s unsweetened go for sug ar substitutes. These thing s are just as sweetening but are certainly not fatening.

39.     

Graze 5 to 6 times a da y. Instead of stickin g to just three meals a d ay, try grazi ng . Grazin g means try havi ng 5 or 6 smaler meals instead of three kin g sized meals. It is an excelent way of having smaler quantities of food.

40.     

Go ahead eat cheat foo d, but onl y for flavor. There are ma ny thin gs which you have to avoid from your diet but which you may have an un dy in g cravi ng for. Do not avoid them alt ogether. You could cal them cheat foods and

indul ge in them once in a while. But take care just to ti ngle your taste bud s, don't hog on them. Instead of that share them with others. In this way