What does it mean to eat healthy?
Many of us think that a healthy diet equals a diet full of fruits and vegetables.
But a key thing to start changing our habits and eating healthily is not bingeing on fruits and vegetables or being obsessed with the right amount of protein and less red meat.

No, actually the first big distinction between a healthy diet and a bad diet is to say goodbye to the so-called foods to avoid and which are industrial ones.

1. Biscuits, non-whole grains and baked goods for breakfast.
2. Ready-made soups and ready meals.
3. Spoon desserts and packaged ice creams.
4. Non-natural fruit yogurts and fruit juices or drinks.
5. Industrial preparations of meat or fish such as croquettes, soups, rolls.
6. And finally, snacks such as bars, chips and pretzels.
7. Spreadable cheeses.

Raise your hand if you have nothing of the kind in the pantry, of any kind.
Few, huh?
Yet, if we want to lose weight effortlessly, the first step is to progressively move away from what the industry offers us through the supermarket.

Even in foods that seem harmless to us, such as a carton of fresh cream from the fridge, they may contain carrageenan , a substance that reduces the liver’s ability to detoxify from waste.
Or emulsifiers, which are fatty.
For this reason, even the most innocent food must be checked by looking at the ingredients.

Why are the foods to be avoided primarily industrial foods?
Because these foods contain substances that are hidden or simply unknown to us and in a certain sense underestimated. However, substances that poison our bacterial flora, reduce our body’s ability to feel hunger and satiety, slow down metabolism by acting directly on our hormones.

Personal trainer Drew Manning did an experiment on himself .
He stopped exercising and switched his diet from a healthy regimen to a regimen of only industrial foods and some junk food. The result? He became obese in just six months.

Yet he started with a muscular body and a very high metabolism.
There are 5 other tricks to start detoxing foods to avoid and eat healthy.

FOODS TO AVOID: 5 TRICKS TO SUCCEED

1. Start with small changes.
   

   Say goodbye to breakfast cereals, biscuits and snacks by trying to have breakfast with homemade or bakery wholemeal bread, homemade wholemeal biscuits, a slice of wholemeal cake or simply oatmeal or bran.
   After about ten days, try to give up spreadable cheeses for real cheeses, such as ricotta, feta, robiola, some aged cheese from the dairy.
   After another ten days, cut out the snacks and drinks.

2. Replace.

   As an alternative to bought tea, make iced tea at home; Instead of fruit juices, try unsweetened apple juice or freshly squeezed orange juice.
   Instead of tonic water or fizzy drinks, try Sassy Water.
   It is excellent and diuretic. Quality wine and beers are better alternatives to spirits.

3. Get used to real food.

   Go to the fruit and vegetable department and buy vegetables that you have never used before.
   Aim for quality: avoid breadcrumbs to make yourself homemade burgers with simple mince, a spoonful of Tabasco sauce, parsley, garlic.

4. Organized.

   Buy bulk quantities of fruit and vegetables on weekends.
   The latter can be cleaned, cut, in some cases boiled and then placed in the freezer. Legumes can be bought in bulk, soaked, boiled and frozen in portions.
   A shortcrust or shortcrust pastry with real butter and wholemeal flour can be prepared in advance and frozen.
   So, from Monday to Friday, cooking healthy will be much easier.

5. Reward yourself.
   

   Giving up on foods to avoid is a gradual process, and at least once a week you can reward yourself with a muffin or snack or hot dog if you really want to.
   A free meal every seven days will not be the end of the world.
   A healthier and cleaner diet must be a gradual, but not stressful, process.