Healthy Diet StrategyFor Fitness & Quality LivingPart 2Part 1 is hereIn order to attain optimal health and fitness, a healthy diet must become a part of your lifestyle. It’s also essential for achieving your body weight, tone, and muscle goals. Your psychological health benefits as well. Healthy eating can help to reduce or eliminate mood swings and depression. An excellent healthy diet is...
If you’ve never followed a strict healthy diet, then this may seem a little overwhelming. It may at first. But once you learn about the benefits and see the results in the mirror, you’ll get excited about it and want to do more! There may be fitness enthusiasts who are closely following every other aspect of good health practices except for maintaining a healthy diet. Here’s what many of us forget or ignore. As the human body ages, its ability to burn off and eliminate excess fat and other harmful substances gradually decreases. The outcome is increased weight and a weaker performing body. Radically changing my diet was the last step I took. Weight gain and reduced energy was my motivation. I’ve been closely following the healthy diet menu that I described above for about 10 years. I indulge a little bit occasionally as a reward to myself or while I’m on vacation, but generally I manage to stay on it 95% of the time. In the beginning, it was quite a struggle because I missed the buttery, sugary, salty, fatty favors in the foods I ate. I found that once I was away from these “alleged” favor enhancers for a while my preferences changed and I started to enjoy the taste of foods without all the extra flavorings. Here’s a good example. At one point, I could not imagine ever eating a piece of toast without butter. Once my taste buds adjusted to foods without butter and other intense flavorings, I was amazed at the wonderful fragrance and taste of a slice of quality whole gain bread. The same could not be said of low quality, zero benefit, cheap breads. This change in the sensitivity of my taste buds also allowed me to appreciate the taste of fruits and vegetables in a way that I never have in my life! Eating a healthy diet became a pleasure.
Today when I go to a restaurant and I get a dish that unexpectedly contains a lot of butter, salt, sugar, or fat I am instantly repealed and sometimes sicken by it. I’ve learned to politely ask the server a few questions about the food when I go to restaurants now. As far as being invited to eat at the homes of family and friends, I just make sure that I’ve made the “cooks” aware of my healthy diet lifestyle well in advance of any invitations. A healthy diet is the foundation to fitness. If you workout regularly and you want all your hard work to show on your body, you must pay attention to your diet. To your health and fitness, Brad Paul
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Fitness Motivation - How to Get & Remain Inspired! Healthy Eating Made Simple (Part 1 - Part 2 below) Healthy Diet Strategy for Fitness & Quality Living (Part 2 - Part 1 above) Vitamin Supplements - Requires Little, Gives a Lot! Home Gym - How to Build Your Own Inexpensively Power Walking for Aerobic Fitness & Pleasure To further educate yourself on these topics, check out the self improvement books page on this site. Look under the topic category heading, “Nutrition, Supplements, Weight Loss, Exercise.” Important Notice: The information in these articles is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for any medical, psychological, dietary, nutritional, or kinetic advice by a licensed professional. You are advised to check with your doctor or other professional before beginning or re-starting any new exercise, diet, vitamin supplement, or addiction cure program.
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