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Everybody who has ever gone on a diet knows how difficult they can be sometimes! After all, it is unnatural to starve yourself just to lose weight. No wonder that once you've achieved your weight loss goals, you begin binging again as your body demands that you make up for the nutrition of which you've deprived it. Obviously, the best weight loss solution is to change your diet to a healthier one that will help you lose fat while still eating good nutritious food. But apart from shifting to a healthier diet, you will also have to cut out all the unhealthy food from your diet.
What is unhealthy food? These are foods that have little nutritional value while containing a lot of unwholesome ingredients such as transfats and processed salt and sugar. They are better known as junk food and include processed cookies and chips, soft drinks with high sugar content and fried foods such as chicken, French fries and hamburgers. These foods have been linked with record levels of obesity in the US, as well as other negative health effects such as lack of energy, poor concentration and increased risk of developing heart disease due to greater levels of cholesterol in your body.
If you want to break your junk food habit, don't go cold turkey and try to eliminate all the unhealthy food all at once. Instead, try to replace a particular type of junk food with a healthier alternative. For example, replace potato chips with low-calorie rice cakes and rice biscuits. Or replace soft drinks with water. These small steps will help make your transition to a healthier diet easier and less stressful. You can also try to make your own "junk food" but with healthier ingredients. For example, bake pizzas with no meat, sauces with less fat and low-fat mozzarella cheese.
Other good ways to eliminate unhealthy food or more commonly called as junk food is to keep a regular eating schedule and always have healthy snacks nearby so you won't be tempted to buy chips or other unhealthy snack foods when you go hungry, as well as having a regular low-impact workout routine. You should also drink eight to ten glasses of water a day since this will help you feel full.
John Richly
Weight Loss Author, Health & Fitness Enthusiast
