Helpful Tips to Eating Well while Losing Weight

Learning to identify and choose the right foods that are actually good for us is better than choosing the different foods that would supposedly help us lose weight. Indeed, perspective! Changing your perspective about losing weight can be very helpful especially if you want to lighten up. If “losing weight” gives you negative connotation, then why not change it in a positive way—into “getting healthy”?

Ten Helpful Tips

• Eat for pleasure and good health, not for weight loss.

• Start the day with oats and you won’t be hungry for hours.

• Eat more fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, and less red meat, pork, pasta, pastry and potatoes.

• Use a plastic squeezy bottle for olive oil and sauces—it helps you use less. 

• Use yoghurt instead of cream.

• Snack on fruit and nuts instead of chocolate and crisps.

• Steam instead of grill, grill instead of roast, roast instead of fry, shallow-fry instead of deep-fry. 

• Eat carbohydrates like pasta and potatoes for lunch instead of in the evening.

• Drink better, drink less, and drink only with the evening meal.

• If you really want something, enjoy it without guilt, and then lighten up the next day.

Reference: Jill Dupleix, Lighten Up, Ten Tips for Eating Well without Having to Diet, p. 109 Reader’s Digest August 2008