12 Simple Steps to Manage Your Diet
Posted by Eky Dakka and is filed under Fast Diet, Healthy Diet Saturday, 13 February 2010 03:05
Diet tips
1. Eat your breakfast like a king, your lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
2. Start your day by drinking a big glass of water; it helps to clean your system.
3. Eat the bulk of food during the day, not late at night.
4. Have a satisfying breakfast. Don’t skip it.
5. Eat three meals a day along with two mini meals. Have three to four portions of fruit daily. Eat five portions of veggies a day (one portion is one ladle/serving spoon).
6. Eat as much raw food as possible. Raw food maintains total fluid levels as well as nutrients.
7. Eat water dense seasonal fruits as they have cooling effect on the body and are fewer calories dense.
8. Use cooking methods that retain fluid – baking, grilling, stirfrying, steaming.
9. Avoid coffee/caffeine/colas/stimulant drinks. Even if you don’t take coffee, but drink lots of soda, you can get dehydrated fast. Any drink with caffeine will dehydrate you. Moreover, it will give you a caffeine/sugar high that will soon crash. This in turn will make you crave for more sugar.
10.Each time you take anything (like coffee or black tea) with high diuretics effect (causing increased production of urine) consume a glass of water before or immediately after.
11.Water is your best bet .Besides filling you up and rehydrating the system, it throws out the toxins in the body. Aim for at least eight glasses in the day.
12. Avoid alcohol. For every glass of alcohol, take an equivalent amount of water. Alcohol dehydrates your body. Its diuretic effect is high.
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