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5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
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5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
Are you following the right diet plan? This is one concern that often plagues our minds while following a diet regime. However, you may not be following the right diet plan in some cases. Your diet may not be healthy enough and may require a prompt makeover to ensure that you get back on track health wise. How can you identify whether your diet is healthy or requires a makeover? Here are some signs that firmly indicate that your diet needs a fast makeover.
Constant fluctuations in weight
Your diet plan may help you lose a bit of weight all of a sudden and this might just bring about renewed determination with regard to following your diet plan. However, if your body has stopped responding to the diet, you may just be witnessing fluctuations in weight and the lost weight may sometimes come back. If you are not getting the desired results, your diet needs a prompt makeover. Fad dieting can help you lose loads of calories but they only return after a period of time. Frequent weight changes are a surefire indicator of the wrong diet plan being followed.
Constant cravings and urge to cheat on the plan
If you end up cheating on your diet plan a little more than desired, your diet plan is not working for sure. An effective diet plan keeps you full and satisfied without recurring hunger pangs and cravings. Your diet plan should only aim at reducing or eliminating items that you can live without and moderate the rest. A diet is a lifestyle change and if you still have cravings and hunger pangs, you may be on the wrong track!
You lack ample energy and strength each day
Your diet plan should ideally give you increased energy and strength. If you are short on energy on a regular basis and feel quite weak, you should instantly change your diet plan. A balanced and healthy diet will always make you stronger and more energetic. If it is the other way round, be sure that your diet plan needs a rapid makeover. If you are skeptical about preparing balanced meals, you can make use of the recognized diet services. For instance, Nutrisystem excels in delivering balanced and portion controlled meals. You can also diet in a safe and healthy manner, as their meals are low fat, low glycemic, low sodium, low carb and low calorific.
You do not follow the recommendations of the USDA
Perfectly following all the recommendations of the USDA will never be possible unless each and every meal portion is accurately measured to the last detail. This is not possible from a practical perspective. However, your diet plan should at least be in sync with these recommendations especially with regard to the multiple nutrients required by your body from each food group. Many diet plans thrive on cutting out essential food groups and this causes damages and problems in the future.
Increased tiredness
Is tiredness your daily companion? If it is, this may be a sign that your diet plan may not be working. Crashes in overall energy lead to such tiredness and sluggishness. If fatigue overwhelms you all day, you may not be catching up on the right nutrition. You may be consuming the wrong foods at the wrong times. You may not be paying attention to spikes and changes in blood sugar levels and may not be consuming healthy snacks as well.
These signs are a clear indicator of the fact that your diet requires a makeover!
5 ways to identify your diet is healthy or requires a makeover
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Harris Benedict formula for women and men
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The Harris Benedict equation is a calorie formula using the variables of height, weight, age, and gender to calculate basal metabolic rate (BMR). This is more accurate than calculating calorie needs based on total body weight alone. The only factor it omits is lean body mass and thus the ratio of muscle-to-fat a body has.
Carbohydrates – macronutritients explained
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Today I'll discuss the importance of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the body's main source of energy and therefore are very important. Read on to find out more about carbohydrates.
Carbs are the body’s main source of energy. After eating carbohydrates, your pancreas will secrete a hormone called insulin. Insulin stores the carbohydrates in the muscle or as fat. Insulin also stores the amino acids (proteins) and puts them into the muscle cell for recovery and repair.
Too much insulin in the body is caused by eating too many carbohydrates. When there is a lot of insulin, it will give a sign to your cells to start the storage of glycogen synthesis. This will eventually lead to larger fat storages.
However, the opposite is also true: eating little carbohydrates will lead to smaller insulin concentrations. Your body will have less energy and will therefore start the lipolysis, to gain energy from the degradation of fats.
Therefore it is important that we eat the right amount of carbohydrates!
There are two kinds of carbs: complex carbohydrates and simple carbohydrates (sugars). Simple carbohydrates will give you immediate energy, while complex carbohydrates give you continuous energy. This is also called a “timed release”.
Some good advice: eat mainly complex carbohydrates throughout the day except after the workout, then your body needs simple carbs, because a higher glycogen level will aid faster recuperation and rebuild of the muscle.
There are 2 kinds of complex carbohydrates:
1) fibrous carbs: found mainly in brocooli, cauliflower, mushrooms, spinach, lettuce.
2) starchy carbs: found mainly in oatmeal, (sweet) potatoes, peas, corn, pasta, bread..
Complex Carbohydrates:
Simple carbohydrates are found mainly in apples, pineapples, pears, bananas and oranges.
Macronutrition guide: Proteins explained
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Proteins are the building blocks of all kinds of tissue, like muscle tissue. They are necessary in building muscle, without proteins, this would be an impossible mission. It has other functions as well: it ensures that the carbohydrates are “time released”, so you get a constant flow of carbs per day.
Polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated fats, saturated fats explained
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In our "guide to understand foods" we'll start off with fats.. Hated by most and yet loved by most….because who doesn't like the forbidden fruit? Anyways, here's a great guide to help you understand what kind of fats there are, and what their purpose is.
Bodybuilding & nutrition programs
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Why should bodybuilders have a good nutrition guide? Nutrition is enormously important, it is as important as the workout itself. Nutrition gives us the raw materials for energy, growth and recuperation. You will never achieve your ideal body without a good diet. I've written down some of the basics you need to know about nutrition programs. Read the rest of this entry »
Free weight loss tips and hints
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Here are some free weight los tips that I’ve written for you overweight girls and boys out there. Most of the hints are very logical, but hey, whoever said losing weight was hard in theory?
Yoyo dieting – why to avoid it
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Yoyo dieting is defined by alternating periods of feast and famine (that the dieter deliberately undertakes). It is a particularly ineffective method of sustaining weight loss. In other words: this sort of diet is also bad for your body.
Side effects from dieting
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It is important to acknowledge that every unhealthy diet can have side effects, like acidosis, fatigue, depression…So never overdo it, never take actions too promptly, the body likes it smooth ;).
The truth about diet pills
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There is loads to say about diet pills. Sadly, usually they aren’t good for a healthy weight loss.. even worse: most of the diet pills are very bad for your body.
While in general, one should try not to generalise, now I’d say: don’t do it. Diet pills are unhealthy, they should only be used in life-or-death-scenarios. So step away from the diet pills and put your hands in the air!
Popular but unhealthy diets explained
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Methods to lose weight
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Most experts recommend a combination of healthy eating patterns and regular physical exercise for healthy weight loss.
Other, non-recommended methods of losing weight include use of prescribed or herbal drugs or chemicals that decrease appetite and/or increase physical activity.
How does the body get rid of fat
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All body processes require energy to run properly. When the body is using more energy than it is taking in (e.g. when exercising), body cells rely on internally stored energy sources, like complex carbohydrates and fats, for energy.
Definition of weight loss
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In the context of physical health, weight loss is the process of losing body weight, usually by losing fat. There are many valuable benefits by losing excess weight such as a higher self-esteem, better health, increased quality of life..
To achieve weight loss, more calories must be expended than taken in. This can be achieved in a few different ways: by reducing the amount of food consumed, increasing physical activity (cardio) or a combination of the two.