Tips for losing weight healthily

To lose weight, simply  we need to eat and drink less than what we burn. Choosing foods from the correct healthy dietary guidelines will help us choose foods that provide the most nutrients, without the extra calories. We should be consuming  more of the colored variety of vegetables  and salads to keep us feeling fuller for fewer calories. In fact making half our meals colored vegetables or salad and having smaller portions of the other foods, will reduce the calories by up to half.

The healthy recommended portions can be used to plan meals and snacks for weight loss. Following the serves from the Five Food Groups and avoiding unfriendly foods will help most people lose weight while staying healthy. Younger men, people who are taller than average or more active may find they need to include the ‘additional serves’.

Planning is the secret to successful weight loss. By thinking ahead about meals and snacks we can spread the number of serves from the five food groups over interesting meals and snacks and avoid unplanned eating of extra serves or unfriendly foods.

Making a plan for meals and snacks will also make food shopping easier and quicker and cheaper and avoid unplanned extra calories, because then we can only buy exactly what we need. Also, knowing a few tips for getting the most out of food labels when shopping can help avoid extra calories.