By Kohen Zain
Whether the diet is actually a safe and effective weight loss program cannot be determined by trying to evaluate the promises of dramatic weight loss that you find in print ads, on television and on the internet. You need to find a program that will help you make a long change in your diet and sports habits. Looking for such a diet program, you must look for these features:
Satisfaction. The diet program you choose must consist of food you like and can continue to eat for a lifetime. If you choose a weight loss program consisting of food you don’t like, you might be able to follow the plan for a long time to meet your weight loss objectives. However, it is not realistic, to believe that you can continue to eat food that you don’t like for the rest of your life. Apart from looking for a diet where you can eat the food you enjoy, you also have to find a diet that allows you to eat various kinds of food. If the diet is too limited (regardless of whether you like food, you are allowed to eat), you will not be able to maintain your new eating habits for a lifetime.
Good nutrition. Effective weight loss programs must consist of a diet that includes sufficient number of calories and supply your body with nutrients needed to maintain long-term meals. Obviously, you can adopt a limiting diet plan, non-nutrition, (such as a grapefruit diet, banana diet, and other strict diets) and many of them are very effective in helping you spill pounds. They don’t, however, what we consider a safe and effective diet because they are not the type of eating program that you can maintain for the long term. Many of these types of programs can cause health problems if they are followed for a long time. Also, if the diet requires you to take vitamin and mineral supplements to maintain your health, it can only be used short term and does not meet our criteria.
Flexibility. The plan that limits certain food groups is also not a type of plan that can be adopted for long-term meal changes. You want to find a plan that includes a variety of foods from all major food groups. A healthy diet will include fruits and vegetables, seeds, lean meat (including fish), low-fat dairy products and monounsaturated cooking oil. Some plans will also allow the amount of limited and sweet complex carbohydrates.
Accessibility. Do diets need foods that are not available in your area or are difficult to buy? You will never be able to adopt a diet for a lifetime use if you require you to eat foods that you cannot find or can’t. A safe and effective weight loss program will mainly consist of food that you can find and it will not damage your budget.
Practice. You want to find a weight loss program that combines sports, even if it only exercise moderate. Exercise not only helps the actual weight loss but will improve your physical health and your mental prospects. Most people who have led weight and turned it off more than one year are those who enter regular physical activity into their new lifestyle.
Be a turtle. The most effective long-term weight loss plan is to seek a slow and consistent weight loss than emphasizing large amounts of weight in the shortest amount of time. The diet whose goal is one or two pounds a week is a diet that can be maintained for life. Obviously, a faster weight loss plan works but if your goal is to prevent it than being a dieter Yo-yo, you must be a turtle and not a rabbit. Sometimes a quick weight loss is needed medically or socially (think of a 20-year reunion or bridesmaid dresses) but that’s not what we are talking about here. This discussion is solely concerned about the weight reduction program that you can maintain for life.
