Good Diet Plans - The Secrets Of Effective Weight Loss

When considering what would be sensible good diet plans, there are many factors that come into play. It is not merely a case of eating more fruit and veg and less fatty food, although this does play an important role too, but making changes to your whole lifestyle that will impact your weight loss in a positive way. So, what other than healthy eating should you incorporate into your good diet plans?

1) Eat More To Burn More:

Spreading your daily food intake over about 6 meals, instead of 3 or 4, is a great way to keep your metabolism burning calories quickly. This is because after a meal the metabolism gets a calorie burning boost, which gradually slows down until your next meal. The longer the gap between meals, the more your metabolism will slow down its burning of calories.

This comes from the days when we were primitive hunter gatherers, our bodies are designed to slow down the use of energy in case the next meal will be a long time coming. For most of us in the western world today, knowing when you will next eat a meal is not a problem, but understanding how our bodies work gives us the power to change things to our advantage.

So, take what you would normally eat for your 3 to 4 meals a day and turn it into 6 smaller meals. Note the word "smaller", it is not recommended to eat 6 meal at the same size of your current 3 or 4. Spread these 6 meals evenly throughout the day to keep your body burning calories at optimum efficiency, which is vital to your good diet plans.

2) When A Portion Is Not A Portion:

Many of us don't realise what a standard portion of meat or pasta is, and are therefore eating more than we should. So when a recipe tells us to use a medium potato or 1 portion of meat, what do they mean? Well a portion of meat is 100g, which in visual terms is about the size of a deck of cards. A medium potato is about the size of your computer mouse, and a portion of pasta or rice is about 1 cupful. Get your portion sizes right, and your good diet plans will start to fall into place.

3) Eat Before You Shop:

Shopping on an empty stomach is not a good idea. You will look at all those tempting snacks, and your rumbling tummy will be telling you to buy them. Would you be able to resist? The store owners know the answer is likely "No", and place these high fat snack and junk foods where they will catch your eye, and let your hungry belly do the rest. Well, don't give them the satisfaction and don't shop when you are hungry!

Make sure you shop shortly after a meal and you will be much less tempted by these unhealthy treats. Once you have stopped buying these high fat snacks, you can start utilising all the healthy food you bought instead in your new diet plan.

I hope the above tips will provide some real help in your good diet plans. Please do not ignore the importance of healthy eating and exercise, but putting into practice the above tips will give a positive boost to your weight loss.

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