Weight Loss Advice - Enjoying Favorite Foods While Dieting
Adding your favorite foods to your diet plan can assist in a more pleasant weight loss experience and can assist greatly in the weight maintenance phase in keeping the weight off forever.
Most diet plans totally abolish those tantalizing, rich, delicious, food favorites that we-humans love - claiming that fat and sugar will end up killing everyone on earth. While limiting fat and sugar is wise, completely obliterating them from the daily diet is not only illogical, it's a great way to end what-would-have-been a great weight loss attempt. In fact, the body requires a certain amount of fat for optimum health.
And for those dieters who are not dealing with health challenges, both sugar and fat can assist in the weight loss process. Let's face facts; once the diet has ended - if all the favorite former foods have been abolished from the daily diet, new challenges in the area of Weight Maintenance suddenly arise. The post-dieter then faces a brutal, frightening struggle.
Instead of abolishing food favorites - embrace them! Remember the ancient saying, "Everything in moderation"? This can certainly work to a dieter's advantage while losing weight, and in the Weight Maintenance Phase.
For example, Kindra enjoys pudding. In fact, she adores pudding - vanilla pudding to be exact. In her former daily diet, she would go through a box of pudding a day, or a family container of pudding a day. And once she began her diet plan, she dearly missed her pudding.
To put balance and pleasure into her diet plan, Kindra opts for a single-serving of pudding every day for a skinny 100 calories. She does not feel deprived anymore,and when pudding time rolls around, she takes special care in making sure that she can relax and take time to enjoy rather than gulping it down and wondering if she even had her pudding, or not.
Another example is Rick who enjoys fried okra - generally taboo on a diet plan menu. Rick decides to enjoy a serving of fried okra every day. After a week of fried okra, he doesn't even want to look at it for a long while to come. He has burned-out his little throbbing Okra Button.
And finally, let's peep in at Dieter Fred's house. Fred enjoys soda. In fact, if Fred doesn't get his soda, he's likely to go coo-coo. He was drinking six sodas per day in his former diet for a total of 840 calories. His options include: diet soda - but Fred cannot tolerate diet soda.
Fortunately for Dieter Fred, he has stumbled on a lovely concoction to replace his soda cravings; sparkling water and club soda. It's fizzy, it's fun and it contains zero calories. And he has also found that he can pulverize 1/2 cup of vine-ripened strawberries and add them to the sparkling water for a skinny 23 calories.
At times he will squeeze a bit of an orange into the sparkling water and add a spoon of sugar substitute OR a spoon of table sugar. Sometimes he'll add some sugar-free flavorings which he thinks taste delicious.
But Fred hasn't totally trimmed sodas from his new, healthier diet plan. He simply enjoys one soda per day at his leisure.
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