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Healthy eating: Alternative to dieting
March 4th, 2010 | 
Author: Dieting has gotten a bad name over the past decade. Too many diets insist that you’ll be able to shed 10 pounds in two days. Too many diets promote “one food item” that will supposedly melt the fat off the body. Whatever happened to healthy eating, then?
Healthy eating is not only an alternative to “dieting,” but it is the diet that every person should have. Healthy eating means that you do not have to think about what you are eating, because you naturally reach for all kinds of food, even the healthiest kinds. This means that you eat moderately and you don’t count each calorie as if it were a piece of gold. Here’s some characteristics that separate healthy eating from mainstream dieting.
1) Healthy eating means no sacrifices
Do you remember those diets that said, “You can’t have a slice of cheesecake!”? Well, healthy eating means that you will never have to say “no” to any food ever again. This may sound like a marketing ploy, but it’s not. Even though that cheesecake is not considered “healthy,” that doesn’t mean that you cannot eat it if you want to eat healthily. A small piece of cheesecake is fine when it comes to the “healthy eating diet” because you understand that you may eat it if you are able to moderate how much you eat. Though healthy eating means you have to have a strong degree of self-control, it gives you a lot of agency and freedom of choice.
2) Healthy eating is inexpensive
Those fad diets aren’t cheap. In fact, they often sell a product and your diet won’t work without that product. What if you could have a diet that didn’t require a product? What if you can eat healthily for a fraction of the cost? Healthy eating does not require a special item that pretends that you’ll lose 10 pounds in two days. Healthy eating only requires that you open your mind and tastebuds to the whole array of foods out there, especially fruits and vegetables.
3) Healthy eating is for life
With healthy eating, you won’t quit your diet in two weeks after you’ve lost the weight that you wanted to. And, you won’t put that weight back on just because you’ve stopped using their product. Healthy eating is especially a kind of mindset or consciousness that you have about the way you look at your relationship to food. If you can change this mindset to one that is described by the adage, “Eat to live, don’t live to eat,” you will be better off than if you were to follow another fad diet. What is special about healthy eating is that you are able to keep it as a diet for life. It therefore becomes a guide for your lifelong eating habits.
If you can see through the various advertisements and false promises that most fad diets out there spew forth to the public, you are absolutely ready for the lifelong “diet” that you will truly enjoy. It’s called healthy eating, and it’s yours for the taking.
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Which diets work – Part 1
There lots of good diets out there that you can loose weight on or you can just slow down in what you eat and loose weight.I have been on quite a few different diets and found only one that really works for me.Its not really like dieting and not having what you want to eat its making a lifestyle change that really keeps you on track.I believe the best diet I have found is Weight watchers.You can eat anything you want and all you have to do is count your points and loose.This diet lets you eat anything you want but it teaches you portion control.This is what we have to do in order to loose weight is portion control.Its not what you eat but how much you eat.It is better to eat six small meals a day than eat three large ones.The thing I like most about Weight Watchers is I can have some cake,candy or ice cream if I really want it but I just have to be accountable for how much of it I’am eating.When a diet restricts you from the more pleasurable foods in life then you are more apt to go off of it,but if a diet includes everything in it then you are more likely to stick to it because you are not filling deprived or limited.You can go join the high protein diets like Atkins but sooner or later you are going to want more than what it has to offer and go off of it.You can go on the no carb diet and soon you will get tired of that and want more variety.This is Way I think a well rounded diet that includes everything but teaches you portion control is the best one you can have,this way you pick and choose what you want to eat and just be accountable for it.When I want something sweet I do not want to be restricted I want to be able to satisfy that want and craving this way I’am able to stick to my diet.Its really all up to you and what works for you.If you have lots of self discipline then you can go on the more restricted diets,If not than you need a more well rounded diet.The Atkins restricts,the low carb diet restricts,The no sugar or pastry’s diet restricts and restrictions do not work for me.So I personally think any diet can work it is just up to the individual and how much restrictions they want in their eating.
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