| A healthy eating regime is not that difficult to | | | | yourself your regular food at home. Your rules will |
| incorporate into your lifestyle, if you are seeking to lose | | | | eventually become habits and you may find yourself |
| weight, following a healthy diet will return much better | | | | choosing to eat whole meal at home as well as when |
| results than a fad diet that will perhaps help you to lose | | | | you are out. |
| weight at first but overall has no long term potential. | | | | Reduce your salt intake - Again set yourself a goal for |
| Adopting a healthy eating plan can at first seem | | | | this, if you are the type of person who adds salt to |
| difficult, but if taken one step at a time you will soon | | | | your lunch and dinner everyday, then make a goal for |
| find that the little things that you do each day become | | | | yourself to only allow yourself to have salt at one of |
| part of your daily routine until you no longer have to try | | | | these meals, you will be surprised at how easy this will |
| to follow a healthy eating plan it just becomes a | | | | become and if after a while you find you do not need |
| normal part of your lifestyle. | | | | the salt you may even decide to cut it out altogether. |
| If you follow these guidelines you will be training | | | | Reduce your sugar intake - many people use sugar |
| yourself to adopt a healthy balanced diet without | | | | every day in our tea and coffee, if you tend to drink a |
| having to put in much effort or take on any extra | | | | lot of either of these, simply cutting one spoonful or |
| stress and you will feel much better. | | | | even half a spoonful of sugar from your regular |
| Increase your intake of fresh fruit and vegetables - the | | | | amount will make a huge difference to your diet. |
| ideal amount of fruit and vegetables is five portions a | | | | Drink water- start by gradually increasing your intake |
| day. This may seem difficult to some but is actually | | | | of water everyday. Try to bring a small bottle of |
| quite achievable. If you start one week by taking a | | | | water to bed with you every night so that when you |
| glass of fresh fruit juice with your breakfast you have | | | | wake in the morning thirsty, the water is right beside |
| just added one of your five a day portions. The | | | | you. Drink it before you get up, it will help to keep you |
| following week you can add a piece of fruit to your | | | | hydrated and will make you feel refreshed when you |
| lunch menu, which means by the end of week two | | | | do get up. |
| you are having two of your daily fruit and vegetable | | | | Cut down on caffeine- Try to limit the amount of tea |
| requirements with very little effort or adjustment | | | | or coffee you drink, combined with the reduction of |
| needed. At the end of five weeks you will find you | | | | sugar you will be greatly improving your diet by doing |
| have achieved your goal of having five portions for | | | | this. Limit yourself to one or two cups a day. |
| fruit and vegetables everyday. | | | | These simple methods will help you to achieve a |
| Choose Whole meal - Make the effort to choose | | | | healthy balanced diet, you do not need to do |
| whole meal foods whenever you can, if you are eating | | | | everything at once, if will be too difficult to adapt to if |
| out for example, choose whole meal bread or pasta | | | | you try and change your diet in one go, instead take |
| instead of what you would regularly have, even if you | | | | one point and incorporate it into your daily routine and |
| only do this once or twice a week you are further on | | | | follow it for one week, the following week take on |
| your way to gaining a healthier diet. Set your own | | | | another of the guidelines and so on until you have |
| goals, for example you may choose to eat whole | | | | achieved everything on the list. These easy steps will |
| meal everyday for your lunch from work and still allow | | | | help you and you will feel much better in the long term. |