While on a weight reducing
diet there are certain foods you must avoid:
1.All fried and greasy foods.
2.All sweets:Honey, ice-creams, cakes, pastries, jams,
chocolates, candies.
3.Dry fruits and nuts:peanuts, almonds, cashewnuts.
4.All alcoholic drinks.
5.Fruits: Bananas, grapes, mangoes, strawberries.
6.Vegetables: Potatoes and other tubers.
To Lose Weight Sensibly:
The safest and the most effective way of slimming
is to lose weight slowly.Crash diets should be avoided
as they often fail.This is simply because they just
cannot be sustained.Moreover, crash dieting can adversely
affect your beauty, making you look haggard.An advantage
of a gradual diet control, is that your taste in foods
can be adjusted over a reasonable period of time so
that the craving for certain food items is reduced.
An average woman spends about 2,300 calories a day.If
you want to reduce your weight, you should aim to
eat about 1,200-1,300 calories daily.If you persistently
eat about 1000 calories less every day, your body
will have to make up the short fall, by using up about
100grams of your body fat daily.So in about ten days
you would be able to lose a kilo of your weight.On
this diet you should not expect a rapid loss of weight.It
may take you sometime to lose the desired weight.Even
though it would be slow, if you are steady in your
diet control you are sure to be a winner.
How Fattening Are High Protein
Foods?
There is a popular notion that protein-rich foods
are not fattening.This is absolutely a myth.Proteins
actually provide the same number of calories per gram
as carbohydrates and so are equally fattening.But
protein-rich(and even fatty foods) foods, do not leave
the stomach as quickly as carbohydrates, so they tend
to satisfy your appetite for longer periods of time
and you do not feel hungry quickly.It is for this
reason that a serving of mutton appears more filling
than a bowl of cereal and sugar, even though the portions
have been adjusted to give you precisely the same
number of calories.
However a slimming diet which recommends protein foods,
such as eggs, yoghurt or fish rather than starchy
and sugary foods is very likely to be rich in minerals
and vitamins as well.On the other hand refined carbohydrate
foods can be easily eliminated from the diet without
causing any deficiency of vitamins and minerals.
How To Cut Down On Fats:
Since fats contain more than twice as many calories
to a gram as carbohydrates and proteins, a low fat
diet would seem a very sensible way to cut down on
the calories in your daily meals.The danger here lies
in the fact that when you cut out on the fatty bit
of your meals, you tend to feel hungry much sooner
and if you succumb to your hunger-pangs, you might
well end up eating more(snacks, sweets and other foods)
before your next meal is due, and ruin your dietary
schedule.
We consume a large amount of fat in our diet; actually
40% of our daily calorie intake is derived from fats.Half
of this is visible as the oil we cook our food in,
and the butter we spread on the breakfast bread.The
other half, however, is not so obvious; the margarine
present in the cakes and biscuits, the fat in a boiled
egg and the cream in our morning cup of tea or coffee.
