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Healthy Weight Loss Diet Plan

By Keira Benson

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Published: 06May2010
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So, you want to lose some weight?

And you think you'll pop onto the internet to see if you can find some information that will tell you how to lose a few pounds pretty quickly... without too much effort on your part.

Well, the bad news is that it doesn't work quite as quickly or as simply as that.

Not if you want a healthy weight loss diet plan.

The weight loss niche is a huge industry, full of fads and super foods. Everyone is trying to make a fast buck out of your desperation to shed a few pounds.

And, sadly, there is no such thing as a diet that allows you to lie on the sofa and eat carbohydrates whilst losing weight.

Someone once said that if you want to find out which diets are most effective, you should ask an anorexic.

Who else would know which combinations of foods will allow you to lose the most poundage in the shortest amount of time?

Well, your average anorexic will have tried most of the different combination diets, as well as the low calorie, high exercise versions. They will even have added in a few little extras of their own, like laxative abuse and bulimia. And starvation with damaged intestines and bad teeth is so not a good look!

What you really need is a healthy weight loss diet plan because the thing about diets is that you have to take into account the body's metabolism. Everyone is different and their bodies metabolise the energy from the various food groups at different rates.

If you follow a diet that is too focused on calorie reduction, the body recognises that it's not getting the same amount as it was before and its metabolic rate slows down, inhibiting your ability to lose weight. But, worse, as soon as you start eating regularly again it begins storing food... just in case.

What you need to do is to force the body to start eating into those fat stores and the best way to do that is to make smaller reductions in your daily intake by eating little and often. Meals should include representatives from all the main food groups because the body needs input from all those energy sources in order to be able to metabolise them properly.

Then you need to start doing some exercise. Fewer calories plus higher energy output means the body starts to burn off stored fat.

So, the diets you should be looking at are the ones that work on this basic principle. A healthy weight loss diet plan that allows you to eat treats occasionally, as long as you burn them off with a good work out.

Keira Benson is a recovering anorexic who now follows a healthy lifestyle to maintain a proper weight. To find out more about a healthy weight loss diet

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