Finding the Best Diet
By WLR Dietitian
How to find the best slimming diet for you
Once you’ve done the
groundwork, it’s time to devise a diet plan that will work for
you. While ‘miracle’ slimming diets that claim they’ll help you lose
weight fast might sound tempting, many will...
- Severely restrict
your food intake
- Have you scouring the supermarket shelves
for weird and wonderful ingredients
- Require you to make
time-consuming meals
- Ban certain groups of foods such
as carbs or dairy products as well as all your favourites.
The
result: meals will be boring and leave you feeling miserable
or take too long to prepare so that you quickly give up. These
diets
may also leave you short on many nutrients if groups of foods
are off limits, putting you at risk of a whole host of health
problems ranging from anaemia and osteoporosis to constipation
and lowered immunity.
Instead, it’s best to avoid faddy diets and
devise your own reduced-calorie slimming diet based on what you
currently eat, including some of your favourite foods.
WLR
will set an appropriate calorie intake for you, based on
whether you want to lose weight at a rate of ½lb, 1lb,
1½lb or 2lb a week – and then it’s simply a case of sticking
to this daily calorie intake.
The good thing about this is
that it allows you to adapt your diet to your lifestyle –
rather than trying to change your lifestyle to fit around
mealtimes. This means you can still create incredible meals if
you love cooking or can simply heat up a ready meal if you
don’t like, or have time, to spend hours in the kitchen.
Better still, cutting your calorie intake for slimming
purposes isn’t usually as
hard as it sounds. Often it is as simple as reducing your
portion sizes slightly and/or making simple calorie swaps
every day. For example, swapping a daily Danish pastry for a
wholemeal scone will save a staggering 275 calories, while
having a small 150ml glass of wine instead of a large 230ml
glass will save almost 70 calories. Slimming really is that easy.
Have a look at our sample slimming
plan menu for some ideas for simple calorie swaps
or take a free trial
of the WLR food diary and tools to find the best slimming diet
for you.
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