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9 Things to do while on a diet

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Do not do too much exercise - Do not stress your body unless you are a professional athlete.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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“.
9. 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

1. Eat legumes
2. Eat lots of dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, rocket, endive, chicory and amaranth
3. Eat a range of coloured vegetables including tomatoes and capsicum
4. Use extra virgin olive oil
5. Include some fermented foods like yoghurt or feta cheese
6. Slow cook meats with vegetables, including tomato, garlic, onion and olive oil.
7. Eat fish and seafood
8. Be generous with herbs like oregano, rosemary, dill and mint
9. Snack on nuts and seeds like pumpkin seeds, roasted chickpeas, almonds, walnuts, as well as dried and fresh fruit.
10. 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

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Here you are 2 useful articles regarding the Mediterranean diet and weight loss.

Have a look their are very interesting.

[P.S. Have you read the latest “How to” healthy guides?]

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After reading some forums on weight loss I’ve decided to write a guide to live healthy.

People don’t want to stay healthy…they want only lose weight to appear nice to the others!

So…if you search for quick ways to lose weight…then skip this website.

If you want a lifetime guide to live healthy the read this guide that will help you learning:

• How to eat during the day
• What foods to eat
• How to calculate calories intake needs
• How to calculate calories burned during exercise

The guide is formed by 5 simple rules to live and eat healthy:

1. Evaluate the best combinations of foods
2. Eat as much as possible raw foods
3. Eat little but numerous daily meals
4. Choose to eat the healthy Mediterranean foods
5. Follow the general rules to lose weight

Read the complete guide here

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If you were a caveman you could lower diabetes risks…but You live in a City and eat like a Mediterranean I’ve wrote some times ago, there are a lot of similarities with the Paleo diet and the Mediterranean diet.

They have the basis to eat:

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Nuts
• Little meats
• Fish

A research proved that the simple diet of the caveman is the “best choice to control diabetes 2”.

The study was conduced on 2 groups of participants who followed the Paleo diet and the Med diet for 3 months had these results. The Med diet group had a much higher intake of grains and dairy products.

The blood sugar rise in response to carbohydrate intake was markedly lower after 12 weeks in the Paleolithic group (–26%), while it barely changed in the-Mediterranean group (–7%).  At the end of the study, all patients in the Paleolithic group had normal blood glucose.

Substances in grains and dairy products have been shown to interfere with the metabolism of carbohydrates and fat in various studies.

Ok Maybe the paleo diet is more indicated for people with Diabetes 2 but…could you eat lean meat, sushi everyday and drink crude milk?

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