Avoid fried foods as much as possible as they are usually cooked in fat or fatty oils. There is always oil hidden in the food no matter how well you dry it on the outside.
Chocolate should not be included in your diet due to the large amount of sugar they contain.
Eat several small meals a day to rev up your metabolism. Not eating actually causes the body to store more food as fat to prevent starvation.
Become a vegetarian or at least try to be a vegetarian during the week and eat meat on weekends.
It’s always best to have breakfast within an hour of waking so that your body can charge itself with the energy it needs for the day. The idea is not to wait for your self to get really hungry. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but that does not mean that it should be the most filling meal of the day.
Avoid sweet sugary foods. Sugar has a lot of calories and needs to be avoided as much as possible. The more you eat sugar the more you have to workout to burn it off.
Eat fresh vegetables instead of cooked or canned ones because they lose some of the vitamins when cooked. canned veggies are processed and therefore not as healthy as fresh.
Eat from each of the major food groups daily and try to have a different variety each day.
Eating 4-6 small meals a day will speed up your metabolism to help you burn more calories
Have a scheduled time to eat at the same time every day to avoid a loss of appetite or worse, eating more because you are famished.
Eat only when you are hungry. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever we see food. Whenever you are offered something to eat do not decline it completely just eat less of it.
If you feel hungry in between meals try snacking on veggies or low fat, low sugar foods.
Eggs have a high level of cholesterol and should be limited to no more than 3 servings per week and only 1 a day.
Alcoholic beverages too are not good for you. Beer can be fattening and the rest of the alcoholic drinks may not be fattening by themselves but after a couple of swigs you will be in no position to watch your diet and your appetite too will be something to battle with.
Choose white meat rather than red which includes fish and fowl, is better than red meat, which includes beef and pork for those trying to lose weight.
Try to use unsweetened items or with a sugar substitute. Even though they still taste sweet they do not have the amount of calories as sugar does.
Needless to say it is important to limit your fat consumption. Most products today will tell you how much fat they contain right on the label. In order to calculate the amount of calories from fat just multiply the fat grams by 9 and that tells you the amount of calories. You should not get any more that 30% of your calories from fat.
Eat more uncooked veggies such as carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and others and avoid boiling them as that will remove over half of the nutrients they contain
Wines, especially sweet wines, contain lots of sugar. In dry wines a lot of the sugar has been removed through the fermentation process.
In order to digest sugars you need to chew your food at least 15 to 20 times to add more saliva to it in order to digest the sugar.
It is a good idea to find low or no fat foods to replace other types of food. There is now a larger variety of these low fat foods to choose from
In order to lower your oil intake you can fry using a non stick (teflon) frying pan, that way you do not have to use any oil or at least a lot less.
Keith Junor writes a blog with great tips on fat loss, wellness and longevity at behealthyandslim.com