Best Dieting Tips

We all know how hard we have tried to first resolve to go on a diet, then go on it, and then stick to it. Let's face it, dieting has been made to look like a monstrosity that only maniacs can adhere to. It is this misconception about dieting that deters so many of us from choosing to use it as a tool for weight loss. However, what we haven't been told is that going on a diet can actually be a lot of fun, and the variety of food you can consume when on a healthy diet is really vast, and delicious! Dieting does not mean drinking only water and herbal tea, and starving yourself to the point of feeling faint. There is a lot more to this process than you believe. Here are some of the best dieting tips you can refer to, and learn how to diet successfully without breaking your resolve.


Good Dieting Tips

As mentioned earlier, dieting does not mean just giving up all the foods you love and starving yourself to lose weight. It means looking at your food differently, in a more healthy manner, and having it taste as delicious as it always was. Here are some of the best diet tips for women, men, teenagers, and kids.

• The first and one of the most important dieting tips to lose weight fast is to exercise while on a diet. A diet is only half effective if you don't exercise. If you exercise for a minimum of 3 days a week, the results will be for you to see yourself. Choose from any activity that you enjoy such as dancing, walking, jogging, yoga, aerobics, cycling, or trekking. Adding a variation to the kinds of exercise you perform will also help you stick to your exercise plan, and with losing weight naturally. Don't force yourself to perform exercises you don't enjoy.
• Speaking of forcing, one of the biggest mistakes dieters make is to force themselves to believe that they can't enjoy the foods they eat when on a diet. First of all, you have to follow a healthy diet and not some random diet that cuts all carbs or all fats from it. Losing weight the healthy way ensures that you do not become prone to eating disorders and other health problems. Take a look at this healthy balanced diet to make sure you are eating the right foods and losing weight in the process. Also take a look at these details on a healthy diet for teenagers and a healthy diet for kids.
• A diet is about eating and not starving. In fact, a diet is about eating more often, but in smaller amounts. You may have read it everywhere, but you still don't believe that there actually exists a healthy diet to lose weight. However, you will know the truth only when you try it. Have 6 small meals instead of 3 large meals, and you will find yourself satisfied (not hungry and faint) through the day. Ensure you start your day with some proteins as they provide you with the energy to get through the day. A bowl of oatmeal with some fruits is ideal. Try to avoid carbohydrates in the later half of the day. Finish your last meal before 7 p.m. Keep yourself going through the day with some of these healthy diet snacks.
• Drink lots of water (at least 8 glasses) in a day. This flushes out unhealthy toxins from your body, allows your blood to get oxygenated well, and gives you a lot more benefits than just weight loss, such as clear skin, gorgeous hair, and a clear, healthy stomach.
• Herbs and spices are not restricted on your diet, so look for innovative ways to eat the same foods everyday. This is one of the best and most effective diet tips. You can have a zucchini soup or a zucchini salad, or lightly stir fry it with a host of other vegetables and add some soy sauce for flavor. You know the culprit of your weight gain, i.e., foods rich in fats such as sugary treats and heavily fried foods with fattening ingredients (cheese, cream, etc.) Have a bowl of non-fat yogurt with berries instead of a heavy dessert. The options are endless so don't think you are stranded when you are on a diet.
• If you have followed six days of proper dieting without sneaking around the refrigerator when no one's looking, treat yourself to a day of no diet on any one day of the week. The weekends are usually preferred by everyone on a diet. In short, one of the best dieting tips is to take a break from your diet on one day of the week. Have that chocolate pastry you have been wanting so badly, or a slice of your favorite pizza. Just don't overdo it or you will reverse the effects of your diet that has been so successful all along.
• When you learn about how to diet properly you only think of the techniques involved that affect you physically. However, your state of mind plays an important role in determining the success of your diet. You have to trick your mind into believing that you are giving it everything it 'desires'. Stop allowing it to set unrealistic expectations in return for the lack of foods it craves. Set a small goal, like losing a pound every four days. It is realistic and possible, and if you happen to lose more than a pound, it's like a pleasant surprise for yourself! These diet tips and tricks have always helped those who have tried them out.
• Proper dieting techniques and healthy dieting tips also require that you do not give up so easily. Dieting is a lot of hard work, agreed. But if you treat it like hard work you will get nowhere. Learn to enjoy every bit of it, from that first meal in the morning, to that aerobics class later in the day, from enjoying a fresh green salad, to the weekly treat, and you will definitely succeed in losing weight. Be positive, and focus on your goal. There is no way you can't succeed.
  

Perhaps the biggest problem with following the aforementioned best dieting tips is the much-believed 'lack of time'. Yes, a diet does require you to give it time and effort, but you have to go through it just for that little time until you are eased back into your ideal weight. After that, maintaining the diet is definitely not such a tough task. You don't have to be on a diet for life, but you have to make an effort to be healthy and avoid the various health conditions that all of us who are careless about what we eat, are prone to. Good luck with following these diet tips. Just believe you can do it, and you definitely will do it!

By Puja Lalwani