Instead of taking food away from the body and feeling hungry every day, the better way to conduct a diet plan is to offer your body more healthy food to feel full and still stay within your calorie counts for the day.

A good way to look at dieting is the way Brenda Watson does. She's the author of The Fiber35 Diet. As an advocate of natural health, Watson calls high-fiber foods, such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains low-energy-density foods. These are foods that are bigger in volume, but lower in calories so you can eat more, and take in fewer calories.

On the other end of things, are High-energy-density foods. These are foods where you can't eat as much of them to get the same number of calories, leaving you hungry after taking in more of the calories you are allowed each day. The best way to look at the difference between the two is to consider a medium-sized cookie versus a large fruit salad. The calories on the two are about the same, but the cookie is not going to fill your stomach like the fruit salad will be able to.

Fiber has a number of benefits in your diet. In addition to being able to eat more, feel full and more satisfied after each meal, fiber also breaks down in a unique way that has healthful benefits. Fiber is slow to break down in the digestive tract. That means instead of the body getting a burst of sugar from the digestive process, it slowly and gradually puts energy into the body and keeps blood sugar levels stablized. This also may lower you chance of getting an urge for a snack between meals.

Fiber makes the body feel full. Studies have shown that aas fiber is broken down in the intestines, it produces a hormone named cholecystokinin. This hormone sends a message throughout the body that tells your body it is full. For those who battle with feelings of hunger, this could be a God send and help you keep up the will power to avoid tempting foods.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has stated that when it comes to losing weight, the way to do it effectively and healthily is to watch the number of calories you are taking in and look for foods that are offering health benefits as well as the calories you need to power your body. A great way to do this is to be on a high fiber diet that fills you up, lets you feel like you are satisfied and also is healhty and helps add to your overall health outlook.