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How to diet

In this article I will give you 5 tips that will help you in your efforts to diet. Let's get straight to it:

Tip 1

The first tip would be to drink plenty of water. This is possibly one of the most under-emphasized tips on how to diet. The human body, on average weight, on average just over 50% of that weight will be water. And if you are dieting and complimenting the diet with regular exercise, you will be sweating a lot and hence losing some of that water. Water makes a lot of the body's basic functions work and thus is extremely important. If you do not have enough water in your body, your body will not be able to flush out toxins properly.

Tip 2

Make sure you get a balance from all the food groups. Not only should you eat more fruit and vegetables but also you should eat more healthy foods. The basic food groups are fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, fats, milk and dairy things and meat and fish.

If you get too much of one group than the others your diet will become unbalanced and you will not be dieting properly.

Tip 3

Exercise, although not strictly diet, should be given appropriate attention in these tips on how to diet. Assuming you are trying to lose weight by dieting, you get to the problem from 2 angles if you are exercising at the same time as dieting properly. Not only are you getting the good calories into your body by dieting properly but also you are losing weight by burning off unwanted calories at the same time.

If you do hardly any exercise, then such activities as taking a walk or taking a pet for a walk would be better than nothing and an excellent start. If your workplace or flat is not on the ground floor, take the stairs instead of the elevator. Every little thing will help as the walk up the stairs but not seem like much at the time, it will mount up if you do it every day.

Tip 4

Start slowly. This could actually be applied to any change that you make in your life. If you were to run a marathon, you wouldn't go out and say "I'm going to run 20 odd miles today. Depending on your level of fitness, you might say "I'm going to run 3 miles. Then, when I'm not feeling like that's a challenge anymore, I'm going to run 5 miles". And you'd build like that to the point where you could do a half marathon and then build up to a marathon.

Tip 5

Cut down on the junk foods. If you are serious about dieting, you will cut back on the junk foods. I'm not going to say rule them out completely because everything in moderation is fine but if you're living on ready meals and takeaways, take the time to cook your own meals. Not only will you be cooking them yourself in better ways, but you will also see what you are putting in your meals and it may make you see ingredients that you want to take out.

I hope these tips help you in your efforts to diet properly. Remember the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day", your body is no different, it will take time to adapt to changes you make to it and thus you should be patient. Any diet worth doing is worth doing properly. How to diet