9 Things to do while on a diet
- Do not start doing the “Fad” diet of the moment – The risk is to not having the desired effects. Choose a fairly healthy diet and suitable to your food habits.
- Do not believe to miracles – Don’t expect that your food change will transform your body in a few weeks or a few days. You can consider this period as a time when you can take care of yourself and your health.
- Do not do too much exercise – Do not stress your body unless you are a professional athlete.
- Do not skip meals – Some people think that dieting means skipping meals and thus lose weight by eating less calories possible. But this way of thinking is wrong, you are not on a diet to lose weight, but to gain a new way of eating, healthy and balanced.
- Do not look at the balance every day – Don’t do it because it is almost impossible that your body loses weight every day, and you might find disappointing results and discouraged even before you begin.
- Do not be influenced by humor – The outcome of the diet follows that of your emotions. You could fall in the “sadness trap” followed by a piece of cake only with the aim to make you feel better.
- Do not reduce too much the number of calories – Reducing too drastically the amount of food is absolutely wrong because forces the body, which is suddenly lacking, to accumulate as many calories as possible.
- Do not hesitate to ask for advice – Often when you want to lose weight you can receive wrong advices by “so called” experts committing serious errors for our health, so the advice is to seek “trusted advice“.
- Do not be hyper critical with yourself – To better understand your eating habits try to write down a “Weight loss journal” about what you eat during the day, so it’s easier to analyze the results and make any changes to the program.
10 Healthy habits from the Mediterranean
- Eat legumes
- Eat lots of dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, rocket, endive, chicory and amaranth
- Eat a range of coloured vegetables including tomatoes and capsicum
- Use extra virgin olive oil
- Include some fermented foods like yoghurt or feta cheese
- Slow cook meats with vegetables, including tomato, garlic, onion and olive oil.
- Eat fish and seafood
- Be generous with herbs like oregano, rosemary, dill and mint
- Snack on nuts and seeds like pumpkin seeds, roasted chickpeas, almonds, walnuts, as well as dried and fresh fruit.
- Use vinegar as a flavouring for other dishes.
Read more:
- Ten healthy habits from the Mediterranean (eating frozen pizza doesn’t count), Theage.com.au
- Ten things to do while on a diet, Blog Dietetico
