Monday, February 22, 2010

The Right dieting plans

Dieting do’s

Eat breakfast every day! Skipping it won't help you lose weight. It'll just have you reaching for snacks later.

Drink water, juice, milk or smoothies instead of fizzy drinks. The normal kind are packed with sugar, and the diet kind have no nutritional benefits.

Drink 8 glasses of water a day - it's calorie free! The symptoms of dehydration can also be mistaken for hunger pangs.

Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Even a glass of fruit juice counts!

The odd treat's fine, just don't base your diet solely around chips!

Dieting don'ts

Don't diet! Instead, aim to get active and eat sensibly. This means eating enough starchy foods (bread, pasta), lots of fruit and veg and moderate amounts of meat, fish and dairy.

Avoid any eating plan that restricts your intake of dairy products. Growing bones need calcium!

Your body needs certain types of fats to look and feel healthy. But limit the saturated kind (found in foods like butter, hard cheese, fatty cuts of meat, pastry, biscuits and cakes) to an occasional treat.

Crash diets don't work in the long term and the weight will pile back on. The best way to achieve lasting results is to adapt your lifestyle gradually.

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