New Year Diet Resolutions For 2018

When it comes to losing weight and living healthier, rather than trying overhaul your unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyle in a single day, why not make your resolution one to get healthy in a way that's less dramatic and far more successful this year? With small, measured steps.

Truth is, you don't need to make major, life shaking changes all at once to succeed at weight loss. Nutrition experts point out that you're far more likely to stick to a change if it's small and manageable. Here are five easy changes that anyone can make (and stick with)... click here for more information.

1) Take small steps to healthier eating - add a piece of fruit to your lunch, choose a day of the week as "no meat" day, or package up your whole grain cereal as a mid morning, or afternoon snack. Focus on choosing healthy alternatives whenever you get the chance.

2) Drink more water - resolve to drink a single cup more water today than yesterday, or add a splash of your favorite beverage to water and you'll be painlessly on your way to giving your body the fluid it so desperately needs. You might even try drinking water at specific times of day... first thing in the morning, with snacks or at lunch.

 

3) Look for color in your produce - all those rich golds, reds and purples signal foods that are packed with good-for-you plant compounds. You might try making one day of the week a particular color... yellow Mondays, for example, and eat grapefruit, bananas or corn. Or you might add good-for-you greens to pizza, or commit to trying a new to you fruit or veggie each week.

4) Fight mindless munching - by popping a piece of gum or a sugar-free mint in your mouth instead, brush and floss your teeth after you eat, and try to pay attention to each piece of food you're putting in your mouth as you watch TV or chat with friends. You can also keep your hands busy with a glass of water, a cup of tea or just picking up after everyone else.

5) Reach out for help - team up with a friend or family member who also has diet/weight loss resolutions and share ideas, fitness plans and (of course) your successes as often as you can. Leave tempting treats at the store and promise instead that you'll give in to one serving of a treat, only when you're out, never at home. Avoid food centered events and look for other activities you and friends/loved ones can enjoy - an outing in the park, a hike in the woods or get together at a club for dancing - all places where you'll tend to be more active and less likely to munch away at the same time.

Top Diet Tips To Stay Fit And Healthy

Over the last decades, health and fitness has become an increasing concern for most of us. Some people crave a killer body and the attention that comes with it. Others want the perfect abs, a tighter bottom, or bulging biceps. The result of this movement has been a proliferation of gyms, health centers, spas, and personal trainers.

Ads for exercise equipment, weight loss products, and star-sponsored fitness routines dominate television, and it's hard not to think you're the only one out there who isn't working on your body. In fact, the perfect body is one part of a healthy, quality life.

Being truly healthy requires a healthy lifestyle and a proper, balanced diet. Diet for fitness provides the nutrition and energy we need to restore tired muscles and maintain a positive productive energy level. Think of the diet approaches - high-carb, low-fat, all-protein, sugar-free, all-chocolate, Scarsdale, Atkins, South Beach. There is no shortage of great-sounding fad diets out there.

If you pay attention to advertisements and special programs that focus on dieting and weight loss programs, you may not know where to turn for dependable, honest facts about nutrition and health. In fact, most fad diets don't work, and they sure don't support your health. So, what can you do to find out what's best, and most healthy, for you?

In reality, there are two basic diet approaches: high-carb diets and high-fat diets. High-carb diets focus on eating lots of carbohydrate-rich foods, and high-fat diets endorse fat-rich foods. High-carb diets use burn the glycogen in your liver and muscles. This glucose complex provides quick energy that you use in anaerobic exercises.

Fats are the richest source of calories, containing more than twice as much calorie value than either carbohydrates or proteins. When metabolizing carbohydrates, the human body burns 24 calories, yet it only takes three calories to burn the same amount of fat.

So, which one is best? Neither. Each diet approach yields results, as long as you stick to one type. You can adopt a high-carb, low-fat diet or a low-carb, high-fat diet. Just don't try both at the same time unless you want to gain weight.

Moderation means eating when you need to and eating the amount that satisfies without adding calories your body will only store as fat. Balance means selecting a healthy diversity - the basic food groups. It means getting the proper amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and fiber to keep your body functioning at its highest potential. Variation means giving yourself enough choice to keep interested in the foods you eat. Eating the same things all the time is not only boring, it's unhealthy. Having a salad one time and chicken the next will assure you get both the nutrition and the diversity you need.