Last time I talked about mistake # 3 ‘Avoiding Exercise’ when people are trying to lose weight. This week I want to talk about mistake # 4 ‘Removing Whole Food Groups From Your Diet’.
In the 90s, we removed fats from our diets and loaded up on high-glycemic carbs instead.
Then in the 2000s, so many people followed the Atkins Diet, embracing the fats (including the unhealthy fats) back into our diets, and removing all the carbs, even fruits and vegetables.
What next?
One of the keys to vibrant health and ideal weight is supplying your body with the proper and complete nutrition it needs for the cells to perform and regenerate correctly. Your cells need nutrients from all of the major food groups – low Glycemic or slow releasing carbohydrates, lean proteins, essential fatty acids (you have to get these from your diet because your body does not make them) and fibre.
If you remove any of these macro-nutrients from your diet, your cells can’t function properly. What’s more, you get ravenously hungry and tend to overeat or eat the wrong foods. This is because your body keeps sending out hunger signals because it’s not supplied with all the nutrition it needs. Especially in the western world today our diets are calorie rich and nutrient poor therefore the oxymoron that ‘we are overfed and undernourished’.
How to avoid mistake no. 4
Don’t be swayed by fad diets or programmes that remove whole food groups. Know your options for low glycemic carbs, healthy proteins and good fats, and how to easily combine them.
Questions to Ask Yourself
• Do I know what low-glycemic carbs are?
• Do I include a low-glycemic carb, healthy protein and good fats in every meal and every snack I eat?
• Do I know lots of options for the above so I don’t get bored?
• Do I know how to combine these foods easily so I can make quick and tasty meals every day?
• Do I understand how ‘good fats’ actually help me lose weight?
Remember Nothing Tastes As Good As Being Healthy Feels.
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