Choosing the Diet Plan is Right For You

Your weight is a balancing act between calories and what your body does to burn those calories. We are bombarded by fad diets that promise us counting carbs, eating tons of grapefruit, or taking this fabulous diet pill mentioned by you good friend who just lost 15 pounds will guarantee your pounds will melt. Monthly issues of every health, fitness, fashion, sports and consumer magazine describes the latest and the greatest and the newest plan for loosing weight.

Before you invest your time, money and effort in any diet plan you need to first find out which diet plan fits your needs and lifestyle.

Ask yourself these questions:

·Does the plan include foods from the major food groups: fruits, vegetables, grains, low-fat dairy products, nuts and seeds?

·Does the plan include food you like to eat and that you could eat for the next 10 or 20 years?

·Does the plan include foods you can find in your local grocery store?

·Are you allowed to eat your favorite foods? All foods?

·Does the plan fit your lifestyle and your budget?

·Does the plan include proper amounts of nutrients and calories to help you lose weight safely and effectively?

·Does the plan recommend that you engage in regular physical exercise?

If you answer no to any of these questions, you may want to keep looking for another diet plan. There are better plans out there for you.

Keep in mind that the meal plan or program should contain REAL food. Foods that are dehydrated and then packaged no not qualify as real food. Our bodies are designed to function on real, whole foods not glorified science experiments that can negatively impact your health. People often resort to these meals, shakes and bars because they are quick and easy. Grabbing some raw nuts, baby carrots and fruits are just as easy to grab and go.

The meal plan or program should also teach you what to eat. Using a short term quick program to lose weight does not give you the time to learn how to eat properly and nourish your body. The best examples of this are programs that give you packaged foods for a month and tell you to eat the packaged foods until you get to the weight you want. You will not learn anything from those deliveries except how to use the microwave oven.

The meal plan or program must also be realistic and usable for life. Choose a program that gives you flexibility to eat the foods you choose, that tells you how best to eat when you are dining out or at work or at unexpected situations. If you are taught right you will know exactly what to eat and what not to eat.

And finally, the meal plan or program should focus on health. There is nothing good about being thin if you are not healthy. If your body is hungry you need to feed it, but with the correct foods. If you are nourishing your body with the correct foods, you will be able to consume more of those foods and lose weight at the same time. Your body is smart when it gets the vitamins and minerals it needs.

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