How Popular is the High Protein Diet in 2011
June 14, 2011 Body, Toxins, Vitamins, Water, Weight Management
Are you about to embark on the ever popular high protein diet plan? Many do, and many also manage to lose all the weight they set out to lose because of it. The high protein diet is a pretty good way to lose weight reasonably quickly yet without being too fast, providing it is followed specifically as it is laid out. It seems that the average body takes kindly to a diet of high protein, but is this diet really sustainable in the long term scheme of personal weight management?
The Body and the Mind Feeds off of Variety
Although many eating plans work if there are followed by the dieter, no eating schedule can be healthy in the long term. Extremely low fat diets (calorie counting), high protein diets, vegetarian diets, low acid, high alkaline diets, and so on and so forth all have one thing in common. They limit the choices in foods that those on them can eat.
Cutting out enjoyable foods and beverages in the short term is not a problem, but we humans do like variety, and it is the later craving for variety that sees many dieters resort back to their old lifestyle. You see, we get bored with the same ole foods from the same old food groups. So what is the answer? It’s simpler than you might think.
We go ON a diet, which means we’re perhaps meant to come OFF it at some point. That point will usually be when we have reached our target weight. Now, most of us piled on the pounds through 2 things. 1. We eat too many fattening foods and consumed too many fattening drinks far too often. And 2. Very few of us had a regular exercise regime.
So, the answer to maintaining your perfect weight is this; you go on a diet of your choosing to reach your goal weight, and then when you come off it, you already have in place a lifestyle change. This will include variety in foods and beverage, but unlike before, the key will be moderation, less of the crap and more of the good, and a regular exercise routine.
Finally, and this is important, we stay hydrated as often as possible. Not only does drinking plenty of fresh water (or water with fresh lemon or lime juice added for taste), rid the body of toxins but it’s also good for our skin too. Now, after your strict dieting, you now have a balanced lifestyle where you get lots of nutrition and vitamins, you have more energy than you know what to do with, you feel fantastic and look great, and yet you can still enjoy a whole variety of your favourite foods in moderation.
You know, the great thing about moderation is that we get to enjoy all foods more, and we look forward to eating them, rather than just snacking and scoffing at random, as was the case when we lived an unhealthy lifestyle.