Got A Realistic Eating Plan To Lose Weight?

Got A Realistic Eating Plan To Lose Weight?

Yes we all want to lose a few pounds, but is your diet of choice a realistic eating plan to lose weight? Ask yourself what is it about this current eating plan that will help you succeed in your weight loss goals? 

Perhaps one of your friends has tried this diet or eating plan or maybe you saw an advertisement in a magazine or on the television. Have you ever gone shopping for new clothes and seeing yourself in the mirror think "I need to lose weight?" Well you are not alone, but take time to find out what is a realistic eating plan to get you to where you want to be. It's so easy then to jump on the band wagon of the latest diet but is your diet going to severely restrict your calorie consumption that you lose your energy as well?

For successful and long term weight loss you need to find a personalised healthy eating plan which will not only deliver and help you to lose weight but also keep your energy levels up so you can be as active as possible so that you can ensure that your body is as efficient as possible in burning fat.

Therefore don't be tempted by the increasing number of "Quick fix" options that are currently flooding the market. Many of these quick fixes offer quick and totally unrealistic weight loss promises, and although you may in the short term find that you lose weight you will also discover that they are not sustainable and very quickly all your hard work will be wasted as you see the weight creeping back on.

Quick fix options we see them every day on billboards and in magazines, but how can you be sure the one you are going to pick is not going to be a five minute wonder? Many of these diet programs offer a novel approach to weight loss and can appear to be fun and motivating, even down to having all your meals prepared for you.
Why spend your pounds on these weight loss programs if they are ineffective in helping you permanently lose weight. Therefore don't waste your cash on them, not only is it a good opportunity lost but it will have also cost you money, time and can leave you feeling down and discouraged. By finding a healthy eating plan to lose weight you will not only lose the weight but also of maintaining that weight loss.

So how can you tell the dieting fact from fiction? You can tell that it's a quick fix when:-

1. It promotes the avoidance or severe limitation of an entire food group, such as dairy products and staple food such as wheat (and suggests substituting them for expensive doses of vitamin and mineral supplements).

2. It recommends magical fat burning effects of foods (such as the grapefruit diet) or hidden ingredients in foods (the coffee diet).

3. It promises a magic bullet to solve your weight problems without having to change your lifestyle in any way.

4. It promises rapid weight loss of more than 2lb of body fat a week.

5. It recommends eating foods only in particular combinations based on genetic type or blood group..

6. It promotes eating mainly one type of food (eg Cabbage soup, Mars bars or eggs) or avoiding all cooked foods (the raw food diet).

7 It recommends going on a detox or avoiding foods in certain combinations, such as fruit with meals.

8 It offers no supporting evidence apart from a celebrity with a personal success story

9. It suggests that being overweight is related to a food allergy or a yeast infection.

10. It provides all your meals for you.
So get yourself a healthy eating plan to lose weight today. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is!