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Second, eat breakfast. You miss breakfast and you have denied your body the energy it needs to start the day. You are then playing catchup all morning and will no doubt give in to the assosrtment of work place sugar filled goodies.

Third, eat every three hours. You will actually eat smaller portions throughout the day by eating more often. This feeding technique also prevents the gorging syndrome and keeps your hunger switch in check.

Fourth, cook with olive oil. Although more expensive than big tubs of crisco, olive oil is exponentially better for you because of its high content of monounsaturated fat (mainly oleic acid) and polyphenols. Research indicates that polyphenols may have antioxidant characteristics.

Fifth, keep your meals simple. Stop spending two hours in the kitchen. Heat up some noodles, bake some chicken, eat a vegetable, be done with it.

Sixth, do not count calories, just understand them. Counting calories discourages us from sticking to our healthy eating patterns. Do we really think we are going to count every calorie, every day, for the rest of our lives?

Seventh, eat more chicken and fish, less beef and pork. Let's face it, beef and pork are great tasting because of the fat. Reduce your servings of these two meats and become creative with the white meat, chicken and fish.

Eighth, eat desserts only on Sunday. Find alternative products to satisfy your sweet tooth during the week. There is no reason to eat a large portion of a dessert. If your not going to avoid desserts, try eating one or two bites, very slowly. Savor and enjoy the sweetness. We do not need to each such large portions of desserts to savor the flavor.

Ninth, absolutely no doghnuts or cake at work. You must find a way to say no thanks to the work place desserts. If you partake in each employees birthday celebration, you will be eating desserts morning and afternoon and then taking some home with you. Just say no.

Tenth, do not drink soda pop. Soda's serve zero purpose in our nutritional lives. Might as well hook an i.v. of sugar to our arms. Soft drinks also disrupt our bodies nutritional needs by offering nothing to our thirst and hunger switches. When our bodies are craving nutrition or water, we input liquids that provide nothing in the way of nutrition or hydration.

Changes in our eating patterns need not be drastic. Stop a few activities and start a few others. With just a few adjustments in tactics we can reduce our weekly calorie intake by 30 percent. Which will equate to a loss of 1 to 2 pounds per week.

You are taking care to only eat healthy foods that are not going to add inches to your waistline. Or eating healthy to take care of your heart. This is of course very wise.Why do I say this?Let’s take a look at the 10 so called healthy foods below:

• Brown Bread

• Olive Oil

• Wine

• Fish

• Chicken

• Juice

• Cheese

• Honey

• Milk

• Low Fat

Brown BreadOf course brown bread is better for you than white bread. That’s a fallacy. Unless you are eating Wholemeal or Wholegrain bread, you are doing yourself no favours. What happens is, while being processed all the fibre and other nutrients are lost, so telling yourself brown bread is good for you, means you are just kidding yourself.

Olive OilNow olive oil is an essential part of the Mediterranean Diet because it is better for you than margarine or butter. Due to it containing monounsaturated fats it is great for your heart. But too much is not going to look after your waistline.

WineWine and other alcohol is often recommended as having health benefits, especially for the more mature person. Yet unless women stick to one glass and men to two glasses a day, it will be counter productive. Meaning any health benefits will be wiped out.

FishFish is good for you, even considered ‘Brain Food’. As it is low in saturated fat and being full of protein, fantastic …… hmmm is there a problem?Unfortunately, it can often be contaminated due to pollution. Eg fish like tuna, mackerel etc while full of Omega 3 fatty acids, that the heart needs to stay healthy, may also contain high amounts of mercury. And mercury is a poison.

Your better choices would be wild salmon, sole and bass. Another good choice is shellfish and canned sardines.

ChickenA piece of chicken is considered a lean meat. But if you eat it with the skin still on it, then you are not eating healthily.

Also do not eat fried chicken. If your choice of meal is some KFC with Chips, yes it’s delicious especially when you eat the skin, that’s where all the flavour is. But bang goes your diet. Maybe that kind of meal should be regarded as a treat, just for once in a while eating.

Which is healthier'A crispy chicken sandwich or a plain hamburger?The hamburger has less calories and less fat.

JuiceApple, cranberry or orange juice contains so many calories per serving that you can almost see your waistline expanding.

CheeseCheese may be full of protein, but it is also full of saturated fat. Only if you eat low or half fat cheese and that in moderation can you hope to win the battle of the bulge. Instead of eating cheese, make a healthier choice and eat some turkey breast.

HoneyAs honey is considered a natural sugar, it is thought not to count in the calories stakes. But even if it is natural, it is still a sugar. So not having much by way of nutrients in it, you would be better to leave it alone.

MilkMilk is said to be good for us. After all babies have nothing but milk for the first few weeks of their life and look at how they thrive on it.

But as we are weaned off milk, we then find there are different kinds of milk.

(a) Semi-skimmed (b) Skimmed (c) Whole Milk

So whole milk should be avoided if you want to stay true to your slimming diet.

Low FatA certain delicious biscuit, is advertised as having only one gram of fat, sounds good doesn’t it? But the manufacturers needed to increase the sugar in them in order to keep them delicious. More sugar means more calories. If you have the will power to only have one biscuit then you should be fine.

How Can You Eat Healthily?

If you want to eat healthily, be sure to read the labels to see just what you are putting into your mouth. And also take into consideration, how you cook / prepare your food.

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