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Dieting Do"s and Don"ts

When you make the decision to diet there are certain things you need to understand. These basic principles are almost like rules that will help you succeed in losing weight. would imagine this is not your first diet so let's try to make it your last.

Some what I will tell you may already know or have heard about. This time when you start your diet you want to actually put them into practice. You want to make some of these tips mainstays in your diet, you want to do them over and over again.

The first is some people believe they will actually lose more weight by cutting meals. This is not so. Your first meal should be at breakfast and this is the most important meal. Your body as just spent time resting and rebuilding during the night and is looking for replenishment and by skipping breakfast start the hunger pangs and the starvation response which now takes it fuel from muscle tissue. You want as much muscle tissue as possible as thias is a source of burning fat. So do not skip any meals especially breakfast.

You want to keep your blood sugar regulated as best as you can and you can do this by eating snacks between meals. You want to eat snacks because it will stop your body from storing unneeded fat. When you eat a snack make sure that the snack is made from protein or a complex carbohydrate, almonds and fruit are a great snack.

Enjoy soda or fruit juices? These are almost liquid sugar and will go straight into the blood and trigger your body to overcome the sugar imbalance in the blood. Your body produces insulin to control this and will now secrete insulin to bring the sugar level down. Once this is done the residual insulin in the blood later on will now act as a depressant and you will feel lethargic and tired and may even have the jitters, All because of having a can or bottle of juice or soda. The smart thing to do at this point is to substitute the soda or fruit juices with water. Water will be one of the healthiest choices you can make. Most obese people are dehydrated and this will cause all sorts of bodily functions to not work at 100%. Water is one of the easiest and best methods of controlling your appetite. Your stomach does not know if it is water or food that it is digesting. So always drink large amounts of water to help cleanse the body and enhance the burning of fat in the body.


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