How to stay healthy when on a diet

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If you think that eating healthy means strict nutrition and staying stick-thin, then you are not only dead wrong, you are also depriving yourself of the many luscious, great-tasting foods on earth that make life worth-living.


Eating healthy is enjoying food, filling your tummy to satisfaction, and still staying in good shape. It does not mean starving yourself, neither denying yourself to savor countless tasty cuisines. You can actually have a bit of everything including sugar and fats. All you got to ask and know is how do you maintain a healthy diet.

Here are the six effective habits

• Focus on today.
You may have started a diet plan before but failed to go on with it, and it is stopping you from starting anew. Focus on what you can do now and do not tell yourself you will start dieting tomorrow. What if tomorrow never comes?

• Eat a wide variety of foods.
Expand your range of food choices. Keeping a diet that is healthy does not mean only eating what is non-fat and sugar free. To maintain a healthy diet, you need to eat everything in balance and moderation. There are about 40 nutrients that your body needs and not one food can give you all these in one bite. You really have to get a taste of everything to beat what your body needs.

• Consume moderate portions.
This is especially true in high-calorie foods. Serving sizes in restaurants have gone really big through the years and it is surely not healthy to finish it all until you feel bloated and over full. Just eat enough while having a good chat with a friend. Chatting will slow your eating time and therefore you will have time to digest the food and your brain will register that you are full. Other ways of eating in moderation when dining out is by choosing a starter instead of an entree, splitting a dish with someone, and not ordering anything in supersize.

• Do not police yourself.
It is very stressful to watch yourself and everything you put in your mouth. It is ok to enjoy a bite of your favorite sweets and fried foods as long as they do not compose much of your diet and they are taken in moderation.

• Eat a lot of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes.
These are foods high in complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. They are low in fat and free of cholesterol. They are a whole lot healthier than eating chips and dips.

• Balance your calorie intake and expenditure.
Books on maintaining a healthy diet suggests that recommended daily allowance for calories is 2,000, but this actually depends on the person's sex, height, age, weight, and physical activity.

Maintain a balance between the amount of calorie that you take and the amount that you spend. Do not overeat if you are just going to sit on the couch all day.