Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution™ by JayKay Bak PDF EBook JayKay Bak Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution | Page 57

Eat a balanced diet and you’re well on your way.
Some things to remember when creating your eating plan:
• Do not eliminate any of the food groups. Eat from them all.
Cutting out entire food groups will not only deprive you of
vitamins and minerals which could leave you vitamin deficient
but will leave you with a very unbalanced and boring diet making
it difficult to stick to.
• Reading food labels and finding where the hidden calories are
lurking in food. Having a raised awareness of this will not only
keep the weight off but will also empower you to make informed
decisions about what you are putting into your body.
• Avoiding high fat foods. A treat once in a while is fine and we all
should get a certain amount of fats from our foods but be careful
you don’t get too much of the wrong kind. Remember anything
you eat that isn’t burned off is stored.
• Be aware of your carbohydrate intake. Make sure you get more
of the complex than the simple variety. We all need carbs for
energy we just need to monitor how much. Always opt for the
slow release complex kind which will sustain you for longer and
won’t spike your sugar level leaving you feeling tired and
lethargic.
• Drink water. You can also get fluid from coffee, tea, milk, fruits
and juices but don’t forget the best fluid your body prefers over
everything is water because it can be readily absorbed and used;
nothing has to be broken down or done to it. Water is nature’s
perfect elixir.
• In the next chapter we’re going to address the other important
component for weight loss that you can’t be without, exercise.
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