Healthy Eating Plans

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Do not confuse healthy eating plans with a diet. Some people who read the heading above may become alarmed and think that they will have to commit to some kind of diet for the rest of their lives in order to live a long healthy life.

This is far from the truth. Healthy eating is a way of life. Diets are temporary. Some more temporary than others.

Diets involve trying to eat in such a way to reach a certain outcome. For example, there is a diet to lower blood pressure, a diet for runners, a healthy diet for teenagers. The list goes on. But even if you succeed with the diet, nine out of ten people will eventually stop dieting and return to their old eating habits.

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Diets and Empty Promises

Lets begin with diets. Diets are notorious for giving false promises. A new pill may come out and the advertisement says, “Take two pills a day and lose 30 pounds in a month”.

A new drink may come out and for this particular drink the advertisement may say, “Lose 10-15 pounds in a month by drinking this 5 times a day!”. The advertisements go on leading to a bunch of empty promises and expenditure of hard earned money.

Some diets do in fact work. However, like I said they are only temporary. You may in fact lose a substantial amount of weight in the beginning, but it slows down or comes to a complete stop a few weeks down the road. Then you find out that most of what you lost was water weight.

Diets also tend to have a rebound effect. Once you stop doing whatever you were doing in your diet for losing weight, a couple of weeks later you find that you have gained back the weight you lost and possibly have gained more.

Diets May Create a Starvation Mode

Many diets involve some type of starvation. On some diets you are very limited to what you can eat or even drink. Your body starts to go into starvation mode.

As your body goes into starvation mode, it ends up holding onto as many calories as possible. In essence, your metabolism slows way down. Just like when we were hunters and gatherers.

The availability of food was not consistent back then so our metabolism would slow down in order to sustain ourselves during times of food shortages.

So when you come off your diet and start eating regularly again, your body grabs onto the fat in your meals and hangs onto it for dear life. Then you see your weight starting to increase again. Sometimes to the point of surpassing the weight you began with when you started your diet.

A Different and Better Way to Eat

Healthy eating plans are much different. The purpose of these plans is to eat for health and not for weight loss or some other specific outcome. Though when you change your diet to a healthy eating plan, weight loss will become a secondary benefit. You won’t even have to think about it. It will just happen.

Good healthy eating plans involve the consumption of more whole food meals. These foods may include any variety of fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, fish for healthy fats and various sources of protein. These should be your base foods to eat. In fact, you can see by the above list that you can actually make some easy healthy meals.

Then every now and then you can treat yourself to a less wholesome food such as foods that are primarily made up of simple carbohydrates.

However, after being on a healthy food plan for a while, your tastes will begin to change. The time may come where you will not want to eat unhealthy food anymore. Not because you know you shouldn’t eat it, but because you just don’t want to.

Your body will stop craving foods that you used to eat just for appetite sake or for your sweet tooth. It will no longer interest you as much as it used to. Then eating healthy becomes a breeze.

Tips to Get You Started on Eating Healthy

A good way to begin your healthy eating plan is to write it down. Make a menu of what you will eat throughout your first week.

I have read that the things you write down get imprinted deeper into your mind. So write it down! You don’t have to go cold turkey in the beginning. Make a gradual change.

Another good tip is to stay away from simple carbohydrate foods. These types of foods are all your simple sugar foods. This is often thought of as all your sweet foods like cupcakes, pies, chocolate bars, cakes, and the list goes on and on.

However, there are many other simple carbohydrate foods that you should stay away from. Some of these are white bread, bagels, white rice, and white potatoes.

Developing a healthy eating plan is not difficult. Just remember to begin with foods in their purest forms like those mentioned earlier. The more processed a food becomes the worse it gets. The less you have to cook a food the better it is.

It takes three weeks to develop a habit. Do your due diligence in eating healthier for at least three weeks and it will become easier.

The biggest benefit of healthy eating is you will not only live a longer life but also a healthier one.

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