You want to start with your weight loss or diet
program and you donīt want to waste any more time? Hereīs how to start
with your weight loss immediately and very efficiently as well:
1. Eat protein at every meal, including breakfast.
This is no kidding. Protein is important and essential for your body and
it will help you loosing weight.
2. Eliminate wheat- and flour-based products for the
time being. And yes, that definitely includes bread and pasta.
3. Eat unprocessed foods. Ninety percent of what you
eat should be a combination of (in this order of importance) raw
vegetables, steamed vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and maybe a
few fruits if necessary.
4. Reduce starch to one portion a day, and don't eat
that portion during your evening meal. Best choices are beans, sweet
potatoes, and oatmeal.
5. Don't overdo fruit: one a day maximum, and only
the low-sugar, high-fiber variety. Apples, pears, plums and berries all
are good choices. For now, fruit should be eaten alone or with something
light, like low fat nuts or yoghurts. Lose the fruit juice completely.
Avoid any sugar added fruit juices.
6. Reduce or eliminate dairy for the time being,
especially cow's milk. Exceptions: reasonable amounts of low sugar, fat
free yogurt.
7. Lose the booze. Despite what the
"studies" say, you lose no health benefits by giving up alcohol
(including wine). There is nothing essential in alcohol that you can't get
in fruits and vegetables without all the bad side effects that go along
with it.
8. Stop using vegetable oils such as sunflower,
safflower and corn. The supermarket kind is highly refined, and it
oxidizes easily when heated, contributing to arterial plaque. Use olive
oil instead, and apply it to food after the food is cooked if possible.
9. Be careful on which types of fat you are eating.
The amount of fat you eat is probably less important than the kind of fat
you eat. The worst are fried foods like french fries or other, also
margarine and foods that contain hydrogenized or partially hydrogenized
oils. The best is omega-3, found in fish and flaxseed oil.
10. Obsessively drink water: At least 8 ounces for
every 20 pounds of bodyweight you're now carrying around, each day. Every
day. No excuses.
