Healthy Eating For Healthy Weight Loss/Management

So, what are some of the things we learned about losing weight and staying healthy from the websites in yesterday's post?

Let's see, we should eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. These nutritious foods provide us with fiber, vitamins and minerals that help fight several diseases including heart disease and stroke.

We should choose whole-grain foods such as oats, whole-grain cereals (without added sweeteners) and brown rice.

We should limit the amount of sugar we consume (including sugar in alcohol).

We should have 2 servings of milk products each day which should include low-fat or fat-free milk.

Do not cut protein from your daily eating plan. We should include one or two servings of protein, which could be in the form of meat, poultry, fish, eggs, etc.

Contrary to what some of us have been lead to believe, weight loss and management should include some healthy oils in our daily diet. These healthy oils include olive, canola, safflower, sunflower or flaxseed. In a later post we can talk about how to use oils in your daily eating plans. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.

If you don't think you are getting enough vitamins and minerals from your new weight loss eating plan you can take a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement each day.

And lastly, but definitely not least (in fact, I believe it to be extremely important) is to drink at least 6 glasses of water each day. If you're not used to drinking water, this can seem very difficult at first, however, you should endeavor to drink all 6 each day. Just to help a bit, you can substitute up to 3 glasses of your water with diet soda, or black coffee or black tea.

Next post let's talk about serving sizes. If anyone has any suggestions I would like to here them.

Until next time, here's to healthy eating and healthy weight loss.


Randy