How to lose weight by eating: making food an art



Can you lose weight by eating? Yes! Taking care of your diet without too many "fixtures" and changing your daily habits. Let's see how.

Lose weight by eating: what does it mean?

Lose weight by eating means, first of all, not skipping breakfast: a very common mistake among those on a diet. After fasting at night the organism needs energy and, at that time, it is necessary to supply it.

Lose weight by eating means never skipping meals, eating at regular intervals and having two light snacks, one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon; this way you avoid sitting at the table hungry.

Lose weight by eating means learning to eat : the habit of proper nutrition is learned, it only takes a little training; read the labels of the foods you buy, avoid foods that are too fat, get used to eating more fruits and vegetables and less carbohydrates, cooking in a healthy way, giving up fried food ... all this is a matter of habit, don't you believe it? Try and you will see that, after a while, it will become spontaneous.

Lose weight by eating means giving up ready meals and cooking at home ; a plate of pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil or a grilled chicken breast with julienne carrots are brought to the table more or less as quickly as a ready-made dish to be heated or put in the oven; however, they are much healthier and less caloric.

Eating weight loss also means doing physical activity, which does not necessarily mean enrolling in the gym and going there every day; moving is also taking the car less and walking more; take the stairs instead of using the elevator; playing ball on the beach instead of lying down all the time ... Even in this case it's all a matter of habit.

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What to eat to lose weight

The breakfast, we have said, is essential, but it must be light: a low-fat yogurt with some fresh fruit and cereals; milk and coffee and a fruit; but also milk and coffee and some dry biscuits or a piece of homemade cake. The dessert is not forbidden, especially at breakfast, you just need to know how to choose : dry biscuits, simple cakes, durum wheat semolina bread are also perfect for breakfast for those who want to lose a little weight.

Even mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks should be light: fruit, for example, is perfect.

The diet, in general, must be varied . For lunch and dinner, therefore, you can eat anything; enough, as we said, to know how to choose. If you learn to select the foods you bring to the table, you're done: lean meats, fish cooked in a simple way, cereals, pasta and rice with inexperienced sauces, legumes with or without pasta. The Mediterranean diet, for example, if followed correctly, is a perfect diet for weight loss by eating.

A trick to not give up on taste is to use many spices and aromatic herbs, which help to flavor foods without adding calories.

In summary: you can lose weight by eating; however, one must learn the art of proper nutrition . In this way it will come to renounce spontaneously and without too many sacrifices to those foods that are fattening and that, among other things, harm health. Lose weight by eating, not only can you, but you must: it is a matter of health.

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