Eat This, Not That: Food Swaps For Healthy Weight Loss
Dieting can become really overwhelming and really discouraging really fast, especially when another news story comes to light about this or that supermodel or celebrity surviving solely on spinach and boiled eggs for months to get their looks.
We must understand, however, that such unsustainable diets will ultimately backfire, and unlike celebrities, most ordinary people don’t have a team of doctors and nutritionists that nurture them back to health.
As a result, on our quest for the perfect body, we often find ourselves stuck with unhealthy food habits. To counter this, the motto of the following food swaps is health first. Forget about self-torture, hungry evenings and food guilt, and see just how easy it is to lose weight by eating plenty of the right things.
Some of the pictures have an arrow on the right, click on it to see another picture.
Too Much Protein.
A low-carb, low-fat and high-protein diet has been overwhelmingly popular in the past few years. The results of such a diet: hormone imbalance and chronic fatigue, which will hinder weight loss because you will have no energy to work out and/or spend time in the fresh air. Besides, your body needs fats and carbs in your diet to keep your hormones in check and to fuel the metabolic processes necessary to convert fats and especially proteins.
Takeaway message: Get around 1g of protein per lbs of bodyweight and fill up the rest of your calorie allowance with carbs and fats as displayed on the picture above.
The left option doesn’t look unhealthy, doesn’t it? The truth is, however, that cereals and granola are often very high in added sugar, and orange juice lacks the fiber content of the fruit.
A less sugary, more filling and much healthier version of breakfast is on the right. The egg is a great source of protein, avocado contains healthy fats, and the fruit and veggies are rich in vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants. Plus, the breakfast on the right has twice as little calories.
A truly-sustainable diet is one that has space for some indulgence. Sadly, most store-bought sweets, like these brownies on the left, are nothing but sugar and use low-quality cheap ingredients to bring down the cost of the product.
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