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Making diet is one of the most difficult things on this world. The easiest is leaving everything as it is, I mean, eating whatever you want to eat, whenever you want to do it. But this is the first mistake if you want to loose weight. The obvious thing is that if you want to loose weight, you have to ingest less calories and this imply an effort we must do for ourselves. One of the easiest things to do is avoiding sugar consumption.

Sugar consumption
The goal on doing this is consuming less sugar than what we are used to. This means that if you drink coffee in the morning with two teaspoons of sugar, it would be better drinking this cofee without any teaspoons at all. This will translate in 14 teaspoons a week and 52 teaspoons in a month. This looks a fair amount of avoided sugar, isn’t it? Anyway, we shouldn’t go crazy with sugar, because sugar is necessary for life so we must keep eating sugar in other foods that naturally contain it. We just want to reduce its amount in our diet. Nedless to say that we shouldn’t be eating desserts that contain sugar, as ice creams, caramel, pastries, etc… This should be reduced as much as we can.

Fish vs. meat
Fish contains less fat than meat, and the fat that it contains is good fat (Omega 3), so it is much healthier eating fish than meat. It shouldn’t be fried fish, because it would absorv a lot of bad fats. It is much better fish cooked in oven, pan-fried, steamed or even raw. But don’t forget that meat is also a source of vitamins and minerals, so you shouldn’t ban it from your diet.

Garnitures
Whatever you eat it is usually accompanied by a garniture and you should avoid fried garnitures because they are usually soaked in oil (for instance, french fries) Try eating always low fat garnitures, and never forget that fat is also neccessary for life but in not very high amounts.

So as you can see, the objective is, as I said before, reducing the consumption of sugars and bad fats (reducing but not banning) In one week you should have lost some weight. If you haven’t, compare your previous diet to your actual one and see if you can reduce something else. Another way of doing this is reducing the quantity of the food you eat every day, but don’t be too drastic, because otherwise, you will be giving up very soon and this is not what we want.

Constancy is the second key for achieving and keeping it. There is no point on making drastic diets for loosing a lot of weight and starting eating back our usual diet again after it. The best thing is loosing our weight without noticing it by changing our eating habits (reducing our diary calory ingestion) and don’t forget that there is a studied healthy balance for food and we should always have an eye on it. Don’t think on diet as a temporary way of life. Think of it as a new way of eating.

Good luck and keep it up!

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