Changing to a healthier lifestyle, reaps lifelong benefits

It is possible to naturally lower your cholesterol, reduce your high blood pressure, regain your energy, and reduce your weight for life. The answer is yes. Generally though, people decide to make major lifestyle changes only when they have reached a certain critical point in their lives, waiting until their health has deteriorated to such an extent that they have to do something about it. Most people know deep down that their lifestyle has contributed to their high cholesterol or high blood pressure or low energy levels or constipation or weight gain, aches and pains and more. So many conditions are related to poor nutrition, lifestyle and being overweight. All very fixable. The evidence of going ‘on a diet’ and the inevitable coming ‘off a diet’ doesn’t work.

Are you finding it difficult to lose weight? Maybe you are making some fundamental mistakes.  Some will have more of an impact than others; some will be very small while other will have a lasting effect. Hopefully this article will be able to help you identify and pin point some that you might be making and hindering your success.

One might be the “all or nothing” mistake – if you make your diet too strict, too difficult in which case you might be setting yourself up for failure because the guidelines you have set yourself are impossible for you to adhere to.

Animals fed on processed oils have a body fat composition chemically similar to the fats in the foods they were given to eat (this goes for you too except you have choices). So the meat would be equally as toxic as the processed oils themselves. The same goes for farmed fish like salmon, their diet makes them fatter but they have far less omega-3 than their wild cousins. The natural salmon have less body fat but more omega-3! A direct association – they are what they eat.

1) The bigger the plate, the bigger the glass, the bigger the bowl – the more you consume. During experiments people were given different sizes of plates and bowls and told to help themselves – in most cases the people given the smaller plates and bowels ate less.

2) Do not be tempted to buy big size, family size, super size, or economy size. The bigger the packet the more you eat, happens all the time. Small individually wrapped sizes might seem a little more expensive but as you eat less they work out the same, if not cheaper.

3) Color wise, nothing stimulates the appetite quite like red – avoid restaurants with red table cloths, decor etc. The color that calms the appetite most is blue. So add blue table cloths, napkins, blue plates (smaller ones), if you can paint the dining room walls blue etc.

Some fats are vital to weight-lose, for your metabolism and health! I know this comes as a surprise to some of you, as I have come across so many people who are ‘fat phobic’.

If you want switch your appetite to the ‘normal’ setting you need to eat essential fatty acids! If you want to lose weight you need to eat some fat! But it is vital you eat the correct type of fat/oil, to maintain a healthy body and  metabolism.

If you are one of those who are fat phobic, do not panic! After years of seeking out no-fat, low-fat or reduced fat products to now be told to eat fat, is hard to swallow. Remember if your fat phobica had worked for you wouldn’t be reading this now.