How to eat healthy and lose weight: why losing weight often does not match better lifestyle habits?

Many people think about healthy eating and a better lifestyle as a function of weight loss.

Here is explained in one line the problem, both of the fact that they cannot lose weight and of the fact that they end up being prey to dietary fads very far from a healthy lifestyle.

The fact that a healthy lifestyle is instrumental for the sole purpose of losing weight makes it fallacious right away, as when you join the gym not to have a better physique, but for the sole purpose of seeing the needle drop on the scales.

If it doesn’t happen within the time frame set by you,  then goodbye the gym.

In reality, it is possible to eat healthy and lose weight and have a healthy lifestyle and lose weight only if you are consistent, and that your first purpose is not to lose weight, but to improve your health .

Weight loss will be a consequence of a healthier approach but in all likelihood it will only come after our health has improved. In this article, I’ll give you some quick tips on how to do it.

HOW TO EAT HEALTHY AND LOSE LOSS

1. Don’t just consider the calories of foods.
   Choose food based on whether it is nutritious, and its quality, not based on its slimming power. People who pay attention only to calories are the classics who, to reduce them, have dinner with a salad or skip lunch or buy a replacement meal. In the long run, a lack of the right nutrients alarms the body, puts a strain on our immune system and prevents a healthy metabolism. You can avoid this by assuming that you feed yourself better, not less.
2. Don’t eat too little.
   We’ve heard that calorie restriction increases longevity, but it also increases stress if you do it for too long. Mini cycles of a more restrictive diet are fine, it is not good to always eat little and try to survive anyway.
3. Try to avoid too much fat and too many carbohydrates in the diet (meaning: try to avoid them together ).
   And depending on your sensitivity, try to cut down on either fat by consuming more carbohydrates or the other way around, by making a moderate low carb. These macronutrient manipulations, if the protein dose is sufficient, are much better than starving with the goal of living a hundred years.
4. Don’t be a slave to health products and natural remedies you don’t know.
   We are surrounded by supplements, antioxidant superfoods, new generation industrial products that only apparently replace supermarket snacks and biscuits.
   Except in rare cases, the ingredient list of these products that seem healthy to us is even worse than the brands we have learned to avoid. Don’t be duped and read the labels well.
   If you want to try herbal remedies for weight loss, make sure you are well aware of the side effects, and if you don’t know a good naturopath, I don’t recommend doing it yourself.
5. Exercising is not for burning calories.
   Physical activity is not used to burn calories, or at least not only. For that you just need to be more active, for example being more active during the day.
   If you do physical activity for the sole purpose of dropping the scale, the only thing you will get is a big disappointment at least eight times out of ten: the best physical activity promotes the development of muscle mass, and that weighs more on the scale.
   But with the right diet it reduces fat mass little by little, giving you a stronger, more resistant, more toned and beautiful body. Avoid hours of treadmills, hours of running, and gym sessions where you do nothing other than wiggle your arms a little.
   Women especially are scared of gaining muscle, and that’s not a cliché. I tell you with 4 years of training between crossfit, weight lifting, body building and power lifting.
   Not even lifting many pounds of a barbell have never had Hulk muscles, at most over the years I have gotten flatter stomach, more toned legs and arms and a nice round butt.
   For muscle mass to develop excessively, a high-calorie diet should be followed. Furthermore, the low testosterone in women cannot turn us into strong males.
   Clearly the scale is to be ignored if you consistently practice a good sporting activity, but if you want results on the scale too, avoid wasting hours in jogging and do a little HIIT.
6. Get more sleep.
   Proper sleep hygiene improves our life in a way you can’t imagine. Cool and totally dark room, restful and continuous sleep do more than beauty creams and even diets. If you sleep little, you gain weight.