31.
50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates. It is a myth that
you should try and avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Rather the
other way round I should say. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy and
so 50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.
32.
25 to 30% of your diet should be proteins. Various processes and
activities are going on in our bodies. Things are broken down and being built
up again. Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease too is needed
and for all this the body needs plenty of proteins so see to it that 25 to 30
% of your diet consists of proteins.
33.
Fats should only be 15 to 20 %. You need only this much of fat in
your diet so keep it at that.
34.
Try and adopt a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is undoubtedly
better for those of us watching our diet. There are a lot of advantages of
keeping to a vegetarian diet but I don’t want to sing an ode to vegetarianism
now. What I would suggest is keep to a vegetarian diet as much as you can.
Make a nonvegetarian
diet a week end event or something if you find it impossible to
give up eating all those animals.
35.
Choose white meat rather than red. White meat, which includes fish
and fowl, is miles better than red meat, which includes beef and pork
for those trying to lose weight.
36.
High Fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads.
Remember how I told you to increase the fiber content in your food; well this is
the answer to that. It is not only better in terms of the fiber content but also
in terms of the protein content as well.
37.
Reduce your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help
you to lose weight. So the lesser pork you eat the better chances you have of
losing weight. And remember that pork includes the pork products as well,
things like bacon, ham and sausages.
38.
Limit your sugar intake. If you can’t have things unsweetened go
for sugar substitutes. These things are just as sweetening but are certainly
not fattening.
39.
Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals
a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of
three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of having smaller quantities
of food.
40.
Go ahead eat cheat food, but only for flavor. There are many
things which you have to avoid from your diet but which you may have an undying
craving for. Do not avoid them altogether. You could call them cheat foods
and indulge in them once in a while. But take care just to tingle your
taste buds, don’t hog on them. Instead of that share them with others. In this
way
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