What is Healthy Weight Loss?

Fresh Fruit, Raw Vegetables, Water, Nuts, Beans and Whole Grains as the main ingredients of a healthy balanced diet are the keys to healthy weight loss. Yes, to lose weight we need to exercise, but the key to Healthy Weight Loss is what you put in your body.

If you put garbage in your body it does not all come out. Much of the garbage we put into our bodies festers, grows and contaminates our bodies. This garbage is manifested as excess fat and disease. So our first focus should be on what we put in our bodies. You will begin to see the pattern that effective dietary habits and weight loss are based on eating a balanced diet of the natural foods that God gave us from the beginning.

Fresh Fruit gives us energy, vitamins, minerals and nutrients. They are a good source of fiber and help keep our digestive system clean. Diseases are often caused by our digestive system not working properly and getting backed up. Or by us just over loading our bodies with junk. Our body then fights these intruders and our immune and other defenses are weak and easily give in to disease. Fresh fruit is what we should wake up to every day, being the major part of breakfast.

Raw vegetables are just as important as fresh fruit as the also give us energy, vitamins, minerals and nutrients. The green vegetables offer a lot of roughage which is great for digestion. We can not overestimate balance in our diet. Even balance in each category. It is not enough to eat a salad every day and assume you are getting the benefit of a healthy diet even though you may lose a little weight. First of all iceberg lettuce offer little nutritional value. Try romaine and spinach as well as other more colorful greens. Secondly, color diversity is a diversity in vitamins, minerals and nutrients and we do not need one type of raw vegetable to the exclusion of other types. The same thing goes with fruit. Color diversity equates to a balanced diet which helps weight loss.

Water is the most important part of our diets. many experts say drink 8 glasses per day. Other experts suggest you should drink half you body weight in ounces of water. If you weigh 180 pounds you should drink 90 ounces or 10 to 11 8 0z glasses of water per day. The message is the same drink plenty of water. Interestingly the benefits of drinking plenty of water are similar to eating fresh fruit and raw vegetables. Look at my article on drinking water for weight loss for more reasons to drink plenty of water every day.

Nuts, Beans and Whole Grains make up the balance of what God said we should eat. God said “I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” (Genesis 1:29 NIV) Meat has become the substitute for nuts, beans and whole grains. Along with fresh fruit and raw vegetables they make up every seed bearing plant and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. Nutritionally; nuts, beans and whole grains provide the protein we get from meat. We should always eat whole grain breads and pastas versus processed foods that have stripped the nutrients, vitamins and minerals out and try to add some back in. Those they call enriched. Which would you prefer. Fresh and natural or stripped out and artificially added back.

Ultimately, God gave us the perfect menu to live long and healthy lifestyles. The choice is yours.

Be Blessed. Be a Blessing.

Chicago Coach Louis.

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