Eat, Enjoy & Lose Weight

The bad news for people who are trying to lose weight is: Diets don't work! The good news? You can learn to eat creatively, enjoy what you eat, eat as much as you want... and lose all that excess weight that is making you unhappy and unhealthy! Here I would like to share some great tips with you so you never have to worry about being overweight again!

It's incredible how much hype and misinformation is out there about what is the best diet to go on for losing weight. While the Internet has been great in getting a lot of important information to us, there is also a lot of confusion resulting from information overload.

Most weight loss programs today focus on calorie counting which has proven to be ineffective as the average dieter often ends up worse off when they started. Such weight loss programs can also slow down the metabolic rate, making the weight loss more difficult to maintain.

Formulating an effective and healthy diet plan is not difficult, once you understand the basics of healthy eating and what would help you not only lose weight fast, but also maintain the weight and stay healthy as well.

So, just what is healthy to eat? First, allow me to stress that there is an almost inexhaustible list of good, health-promoting food out there, so if you have whole, natural, nutrient-rich foods you love, go ahead!

I picked these foods based on a few criteria:

1.They are nutrient-dense.

2.They are whole foods.

3.They are affordable and easily available.

4.They taste healthylicious!

The last point is so important as I always tell my clients: “The best diet is one you enjoy so much, you don't even know you are on it!”

So, go ahead – eat, enjoy and stay healthy!

1. Avocado - contains lots of Omega 9 and high in beta-sitosterol which lowers cholesterol levels

2. Bananas - packed with the mood enhancing protein tryptophan, which helps the body produce serotonin, also know as the “happy hormone”, high in potassium and B6

3. Broccoli - rich in vitamin C, A, K, B-complex, iron, zinc, phosporus and phyto-nutrients

4. Cabbage - high in vitamin K, sulphur, potassium, helps to detoxify, lowers blood pressure and blood sugar levels

5. Nuts and seeds – almonds, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, walnuts

6. Olives and olive oil, extra virgin - rich in Omega 3, Omega 9

7. Quinoa - loaded with riboflavin, magnesium, potassium, iron.

8.  Salmon - high in amino acids and omega 3 which will help to get you into fat burning zone

9.  Spinach - loaded vitamins C, A, K, helps stabilize blood sugar levels, great for heart health

10.  Sweet potato - contain carotenoids that help stabilize blood sugar levels, improve metabolism

11. Tomatoes - high in lycopene

12. Watermelon - high in glutathione which is an essential antioxidant

And don't forget to get some herbs and spice to life – black pepper, cayenne pepper, chili, cinnamon, ginger, mustard seeds, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, turmeric and more!

One final note – no more processed foods like refined sugar, white rice and breads. These are literally poison for your body, so substitute with healthy alternatives like blackstrap molasses, coconut sugar and honey instead of refined sugar, and brown rice and quinoa in place of white rice.

Who says eating healthy is boring? You just need to be creative and you can cook up a storm for yourself and your family.

For those of you who need extra help to burn the fat that has been piling up over the years, especially the visceral fat surrounding your major organs, I would recommend you to take FitLine Proshape All-in-1.  The green coffee bean inside has been tried, tested and proven to be particularly effective in helping those inches around the waist and hip to literally vanish! I have customers who report inch loss of up to 3 inches around the waist in less than a week! ProShape All-in-1 is a great tasting meal replacement that also contains mate tea extract to keep away craving and helps you feel full longer, as well as nettle, an effective diuretic to get rid of water retention and great for supporting the kidney, thyroid. With ProShape, not only do you lose weight healthily, you will find yourself more alert, full of energy, and most importantly - it tastes yummy!

For more information on ProShape, just drop me a message and I would be happy to share with you!

In my next article, I will share more on how fat is burnt and what foods you should avoid to get into the fat burning zone.

Take the Long-Term Approach

It’s estimated that over 95% of all people who lose weight on a diet, gain it back. They started a diet and gave up feeling discouraged when they don’t lose much weight, or they started a diet, lost weight, gained back more weight, and then gave up in discouragement. Or some started on a different diet and repeated the same depriving, discouraging, demoralizing process.

If you want to be successful at not only losing, but keeping the kilo’s off, you need to take the long term approach: Look at what you are about to undertake not as a short term, quick, weight loss, but rather a change in lifestyle to last a lifetime. Remember, you did not go to bed skinny one night, and woke up the next morning, grossly overweight!

Deprivation diets don’t work long-term, because you just end up with a bigger craving for what you have cut back on. Yes, you will lose weight in time for that big event you were targeting to lose weight for, but after that, you will pile on the kilo’s again as you double your intake on what you felt “deprived” of.

That’s why I recommend you to work with a weight loss or health coach who can tailor an integrative program just for you, based on your specific lifestyle – what you eat, when you eat, even how you eat, what physical activities you do. You will begin to make more nutritious food choices, add exercise, and cut back somewhat – no more than 20% – on your eating.


If you falter along the way, you don't need to look at it as a failure because you know that you have a long time to make the changes. For example, if you go for a big Chinese wedding dinner, and you indulge in more than what you normally take, there is no need to feel guilty because you know that eating so much is not a regular habit, and that at the next meal you will eat more sensibly.

What you can also do is, at each meal, take 20% less than what you normally take on your plate, eat slowly, taking care to chew your food well, and enjoy it. More often than not, you will find the amount is actually enough. For many of us, why we overeat is because we have been taught from young to finish the food on our plate and not “waste” it. Also, our brain takes at least 20 minutes to get the signal from our stomach that we are full, so if we eat too fast, we tend to overeat.

"The best diet is the one you don't know you are on." Dr Brian Wansink

THIS WEEK'S LESSON:
Set a realistic goal for yourself how much weight you want to lose or how many inches you want to take off your waist in the short as well as long-term. A good goal is to lose only 5-10% of your body weight at a time. Also, your waistline should be less than half your height, so if you are 5'2", your waist should be below 31".

The key to successful weight loss is to enjoy what you eat. So start looking for healthier options and learn to enjoy the taste. You can go to my website Healthylicious Meals to get some great recipes you can try.