Here is what I claim: keep it simple. Complex diet plans fail more often than they help. Everyone knows basically what is healthy and what is not. Apples are healthy, fudge brownies are not. Water is low in calories, soda is not.
Don't think of healthy eating as a punishment, but as an reward for caring about yourself.
Guilt is often the biggest culprit in undermining weight loss efforts. If you eat six chocolate chip cookies, don't beat yourself up, because you will spin out of control. We have all done it. We give up, because we convince ourselves that we have no self control and we will never succeed. Then we go eat the rest of the box of cookies.
So, instead of doing that from now on, say to yourself, "It's OK to fail sometimes. I ate those cookies, and now I can move on to another day of healthy eating."
"Easy for you to say," you might be thinking. But as a matter of fact, it's not. The best gift I have ever given myself is trust. Trust that I can do this, and that consuming cookies doesn't make me a bad person. There's always tomorrow. I have found that if you take it one meal at a time, it becomes a habit to eat healthy. I actually started to prefer vegetarian meals over greasy burgers. Believe it or not.
My doctor recommended the Diabetic Diet to me in the beginning. I am not Diabetic, but it is a very healthy eating plan, and it doesn't cost five hundred dollars to join. It's free, which is another judge of a good diet plan. No gimmicks, no claims, just healthy eating.
Excercise is a must in weight loss. No matter how good your eating habits are, you have to excercise to lose weight.
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