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5 Changes You Can Make To Your Nutrition For Successful 'Dieting'

Do you wonder why you haven't been able to shift the weight?

1. This is going to hurt but the simplest step is: Stop eating crap! Most processed foods are generally filled with so much rubbish! They have lost their nutrients during the processing phase and are often filled with unhealthy fats, sugar or artificial sweeteners and ingredients you can't even pronounce (just turn the package around and check out the ingredients list)!

Many of these ingredients (artificial sweeteners, artificial colours, hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup) are not even utilised by the body. Your body thinks they are inedible! Think about this, you wouldn't eat a bowl of sticky tape so why consume anything else that isn't actually food? Not to mention, these kinds of ingredients are toxins and often stored with fat so they stay inside your body with nowhere to escape.

Choose foods that are in their natural state aka WHOLEFOODS (eg: apples, chicken breast, green beans) AND aim to make these total 60-75% of your diet.

2. Avoid fad diets Fad diets: Any diet that promises rapid weight loss following extreme methods. Do they work? NO. You are likely to drop a few kgs in the first week as promised but basically because you are so restricted. Sorry everyone, the TRUTH is that weight is probably just water. Once you quit the diet (because it is so farfetched and impossible to maintain) the weight will come back on and possibly, more than you started with.

Further negatives: *disrupting your metabolism *restricting foods, causing nutritional deficiency *fatigue *muscle loss (Check out Strength Training - The key to keeping the weight off. *brittle nails and hair loss *bloating and/or constipation *mood swings

It's not complicated. Follow a normal, balanced diet. If you don't know what that means, see a dietician. We recommend Life Star Nutrition who you have access to hear with us.