3 Simple Ways To Eat A Healthier Diet For Faster Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight, eating a healthy diet should be your first priority.  Exercise is important, but diet is king when it comes to lifelong weight management. 

This post provides 3 simple ways to make healthy changes in the way you eat on a daily basis.

#1 Make sure to eat healthy fats in most of your meals. 
Eating enough healthy fats is important for maintaining proper fat burning and muscle building hormone levels in your body.  Adequate healthy fats in your diet also helps in keeping your appetite under control.

The healthiest sources of dietary fats are raw nuts, seeds, egg yolks (from organic free range eggs), avocados, extra virgin olive oil (highest antioxidant content of olive oils), coconut oil (a great source of healthy saturated fats), and grass-fed meats (a great source of the healthy fat, conjugated linoleic acid, which can help burn body fat and build muscle).

Eat a handful of raw nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds are great healthy choices) 3 times a day about 30 minutes prior to meals.  This can help to quell your appetite and give your body some protein, fiber, and healthy fats so that you eat less calories overall at your meals and get more nutrition at the same time due to the high nutrient density of most nuts.

#2 Try to eat a high quality protein source with each meal and snack that you eat. 

Quality proteins from grass-fed meats, grass-fed raw dairy, and even from plant sources such as nuts and beans provides appetite suppression so you can control your caloric intake easier.

Getting quality proteins also helps you to build lean muscle (if you're working out hard regularly) so that your metabolism can run at a higher rate from the increased lean muscle on your body.

Eating sufficient protein at most of your meals also aids your body in controlling blood sugar and insulin levels by helping to slow the breakdown of ingested carbohydrates.

#3 Minimize your grain consumption (from cereals, bagels, breads, pasta, etc) and you will start to lose body fat much easier.  

Focus carbohydrate intake on fruits and vegetables solely. This simple step alone usually helps people to start managing their weight more easily.

One of the main reasons that so many individuals struggle to lose weight for most of their lives is due to eating excessive processed carbohydrates such as refined grain-based starches and refined sugars on a daily basis.

The natural sugars in whole fruits and berries are okay because the fiber in fruits helps to slow the blood sugar response in your body.  Just make sure to avoid fruit juices, which are mostly sugar and have the fiber removed in processing the juice.

Incorporate these 3 ways to eat a smarter, healthier diet into your daily routine and you’ll see a leaner body and more energy in no time.

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P.S. This article courtesy of Mike Geary - Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist and Catherine Ebeling - RN, BSN, authors of  bestsellers The Fat-Burning Kitchen and The Top 101 Foods that Fight Aging.

Over 40 and female? Lose Weight Faster Using These Two Techniques

Case in point  - over 40 by a lot - lost 10 pounds in a year by beefing up the exercise program. By adding strength training workouts. Note that this took a year to accomplish.

I lost the next  and final 10 pounds in 3 months.  

What happened to lose the next 10 (and final pounds) so much more quickly than the first 10?

I added 2 new habits. First, I dropped my sugar consumption to less than 25 grams a day by monitoring the sugar content of everything I ate. Also, I tried to eliminate carbs (potatoes, rice) in the evening meal. that's a tough thing to do when the person cooking your meals is Italian! No pasta! Refer to Dr. Mercola's article on Fructose: The Amazing Similarities Between this Toxic Sugar and Alcohol.

Then, I added a strength training program that incorporated metabolic workouts (interval training such as step up 20 sec hard/40 sec recovery for 10 minutes). Refer to this link:
New Rules of Lifting for Life.

Note that these 2 techniques worked for me. You may not be in the same situation - post menopausal and finding it very difficult to drop an ounce. Besides, the combination of the diet plus the strength training ensures that you lose fat and not muscle.