Wednesday, November 5, 2008

You are what you Eat

If you are fat, its because of your eating habits. If you are unhealthy, its because you have made choices in food, lifestyle and other habits that have contributed to you being unhealthy. 

No matter how much you exercise or workout, if you do not get your eating habits straight, you will simply not make good gains. Losing weight or getting fit is 20% exercise and 80% what you eat.

Junk in is junk out. What you eat, fuels your body. Eat junk food and your body will turn to junk. Eat wisely and your body will reward you. 

Stay off diets! They will only result in temporary weight loss. Besides they are not healthy. Be wiser. Be careful of what you eat. Try to get nutritious, natural foods which include lots of vegetables and fruits. Avoid fried foods as they unnecessarily add calories. Do not abstain from eating your favourite chocolate, just consume less of it and in smaller quantities.

Eat more frequent meals, in smaller quantities. I recommend eating every 3 hours. If you are in the habit of eating 3 meals a day, split each meal and consume it in two parts. Space each part by 3 hours. Your metabolism will sour which will lead to a fitter you!

Ideally, you should be consuming:
50% Carbs
30% Proteins
20% Fats

Yes, that's right! Fats are essential for your well being. They will NOT contribute to your gaining fat. You put on fat when you consume more calories than you burn. Pure and simple.

To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you consume.
To gain weight, you must consume more calories than you burn.

Go ahead and eat that all the chocolates you want but just make sure you put in the extra hour or two on the treadmill burning off all those extra calories!

Just the same way as you will not allow anyone to throw garbage into your car, don't allow yourself to put garbage into your body!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

thanx for this lovely article....will surely try to follow ur advice - shalini