HEALTHY EATING – AVOID MISTAKES ON DIET RECIPIES

There is so much information we can find about weight loss, but the same diet mistakes are being made over and over every day. You need to avoid some big mistakes that lead to failure to lose the weight that you want to lose. Understanding these errors can help to improve the attitude that will lead to permanent weight loss for you.

1. The All Or Nothing Attitude

This kind of dieters will often choose a complicated diet that is almost impossible for them to maintain. Before starting, they will search the kitchen for anything that does not fit the plan and throw it in the garbage. They are planning to be the perfect dieter, and so they will be, for three days, seven days or even a couple of weeks. Then, inevitably, something happens that means they cannot continue the diet one time. Immediately the whole thing is ruined in their eyes and the diet is over. They get to the store and buy all the things that they thrown last week and proceed to gain back all the weight that they lost, as fast as possible.

If you are this kind of dieter you need to ask yourself some big questions. Do you really want to lose weight permanently, or just lose a few pounds so that you can enjoy putting them back on again?

The best way is to make small changes to what you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.

2. The Attitude of Sacrifice

The second mistake is you view your diet as a period of sacrifice. You restrict yourself the foods that you enjoy most while you are on a way of getting your target weight. You may have a good diet plan and be very successful in losing weight, but what happens when you reach your goal? You have not learnt to eat 'bad foods' in moderation so as soon as you start, you are likely to go out of control.

It is better to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to enjoy it in small quantities. Yes, even chocolate!

3. Goal Failure

Setting goals is important in any weight loss plan and it should be clear and realistic. A more useful goal would be to lose two pounds per week for the first five weeks and then one pound per week after that. Some weeks you will lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you monitor your progress by a graph you will see that ups and downs are natural and do not stop you progressing steadily toward your main goal.

If you have been making above mistakes, do not worry. The most important point in dieting is to move on. Learn from your failures as well as your success and do not use a mistake as an excuse for giving up.

The only way to permanently achieve your goal is to make a commitment to become a healthier person. Remember that eating normally includes eating more on some days and less on the others. Learn to enjoy food in moderation and you will have a chance of avoiding these bad diet mistakes.

NEGATIVE CALORIE FOODS

Actually, there is no such thing as a negative calorie. A calorie is a unit of heat and it cannot be negative. So when people talk about negative calorie foods, this just means a food whose calorie level is too low that it takes more energy to eat and digest it than the food contains.

Let we consider water to be a food, then cold water is certainly a negative calorie food. It contains no calories at all and the body has to use more energy to bring it up to blood temperature. So every time we drink a glass of cold water, we burn up a few calories and lose a little weight. That is why people call it a negative calorie food. But there are very few foods like this.

Negative calorie foods are most attractive to anorexics. A negative calorie diet would obviously result in starvation in the long term and nutritional deficiencies can occur very quickly. The calories burnt usually come from muscle mass, and the result is debility and wasting.

A better way to use a negative calorie diet is as a form of fasting or detox. You can do it for one to three days right after the Christmas season or when you have been eating an over-rich diet. Provided you are otherwise healthy, it can be a great way to clean out the system. However it is still best to take medical advice before doing this.

If you decide to use a negative calorie detox, please consider the following points first:

1. Do not eat big quantities of one type of food, especially fruits. A lot of foods contain substances that can be damaging if taken too much. For example, the acid in pineapple and grapefruit can damage your stomach lining. Other foods put an excessive burden on the liver or may cause diarrhea. So try to use all the different foods in small quantities.

2. Better for you to eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly. You will also use more calories that way. If the foods can be eaten raw, it will be more effective than cooking them. Foods like carrots and beets will also be more satisfying if you eat them grated.

3. Do not spend all day eating. You will just become bloated and feel sick. If you are only doing this for a couple days, you should not feel too hungry. Plan four or five salad meals each day, and let your digestion rest at other times.

4. Schedule your time when do not have any important commitments. As with fasting or any kind of detox, you may suffer some uncomfortable symptoms including headaches, depression, tiredness and irritability. If these become severe, stop the diet and see a doctor.

5. When you end the detox, plan a gradual return to normal eating.

Below is a list of negative calorie foods.

* Apples

* Asparagus

* Beets

* Blueberries

* Broccoli

* Carrot

* Cauliflower

* Celery stalk

* Celery root

* Cranberries

* Cucumbers

* Eggplant

* Garden cress

* Garlic...

* Grapefruit

* Green beans

* Green cabbage

* Lemons

* Lettuce

* Onions

* Papayas

* Pineapples

* Prunes

* Raspberries

* Spinach

* Strawberries

* Tangerines

* Tomatoes

Please use this list of negative calorie foods wisely.