4 Great Ways to Improve Your Diet

Poor diet will always be looked upon as one of the main reasons why people are overweight. Diet gives you energy, controls your emotion and your size. In effect, controls your body.

We often mistake diet as a means to deprive ourselves of nourishment, but it need not be so hard.

* Take note of your intake of fruits and vegetables. It sounds obvious and you have heard it before many times. EAT MORE VEGETABLES AND FRUIT|FRUIT AND VEGETABLES! But not too much as too much fruit will give you excess sugar.

So, be wary of fruit diets as they are not as wholesome as you might think.

* Reduce your intake of cookies, ice cream and pies after dinner. You have probably heard that this is detrimental to your diet, but it is always good to be reminded again. STOP WITH THE SNACKING AFTER MEALS!

Cut down your oils and fats intake, and consume more healthier oils such as olive oil. Then reduce your sweets intake. Nothing too painful, start by reducing by half and work from there.

* Carbohydrates - this is where your body gets its main energy from. First it uses the carbohydrates, then the fats, and lastly the proteins when supplying our energy. Your carbohydrates supplies calories for the body's energy which is what we're trying to reduce.

If you don't use all of the calories up, then you will have excess calories, hence excess fat. . So the rule is to eat less carbohydrates - try to keep them at 60% of you calorie intake. Don't let them turn up in vast amounts.

* Another great method of reducing your calories consumption that is becoming popular lately is the use of Fat Binders which will bind to about 28% of the fat you take into your body. That's more than one quarter of the fat you take in! These are in the form of pills are are naturally herbal. Proactol and phentetrmine are the main suppliers and results are said to be astounding.

Put all of the points noted above and you will be well on the way to losing weight. Remember, it does not have to be painful. A little bit at a time is enough.