Keep Healthy While Losing Weight

One of your main goals when losing weight should be to keep healthy. Nobody wants to get fit with the price of giving up health, at least this is what I like to believe.

Keeping healthy during weight loss diets is not as hard as you may be thinking. It requires only a little bit of attention to base your diet on healthy recipes, be them vegetarian or not, on healthy desserts low on sugar, and on respecting a few eating principles which are the key to a healthy nutrition and lifestyle:

1. Breakfast should be your main meal of the day. Never skip breakfast. Your body and your mind need energy to function well, and if you fail on supplying them with this energy in the morning, by 11 o click you’ll be already tired and not productive. Nothing compares with a healthy breakfast to start your day with.
2. It is better to eat five times a day in smaller quantities than eating only three bigger meals. If you eat only 3 meals, your last one would probably be around 7 o clock in the afternoon. If you like to stay up late, you’ll end up by getting to sleep in hunger or by eating at midnight. None of these is OK for a good night rest.
3. Healthy options for menus are not a difficult choice if you take into consideration that on average, a person needs between 1500 and 2500 calories to get energy for a whole day. The main three elements of all foods are carbohydrates, proteins and glucose. Proteins and glucose have about 5 calories per gram, while carbohydrates (or carbs) have on average 10 calories per gram. Keep healthy by eating a balanced menu each day.
4. Fruits should be eaten at separate meals, preferably in the first part of the day. This is because the time your stomach needs to digest fruits is different from the time needed to digest meat, for example. If you mix the two, by eating fruits at the end of a meat-based meal, those fruits would be required to stay in the stomach longer than they really need, leading to fermentation and causing you bloating and digestion troubles. Keep healthy by keeping fruits separate from other foods (half an hour pause after you eat the fruits would be OK).
5. Eat fish at least three times a week. Fish is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, which are considered to be essential if you want to keep healthy. Fish oil stimulates blood circulation, increases the breakdown of fibrin, a compound with a major role in scar formation, and additionally has been shown to reduce blood pressure. There is strong scientific evidence that n−3 fatty acids significantly reduce blood triglyceride levels and regular intake reduces the risk of heart attack.
6. Exercise. There are many people who are very busy or just sedentary, who wish to lose weight by miracle, or by taking a pill, without any efforts. Exercising doesn’t mean that you really have to sweat every day in the gym and make your heart get tired. You need to adapt the effort level at your age and your health condition. A fitness trainer might be of good help here, if you want to keep healthy.