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There is that pizza, dripping with sauce and cheese. Here are you feeling as if your living room is the jail and the free world is on the other side of your TV screen. On your lap is the remote control to press the pause button, as the beautiful girl put a piece of that pizza in her mouth. Also on your lap is the bowl of rabbit food – lettuce, carrots and raw broccoli with a pinch of salt.

This was one of the favourite diets of the eighties and early nineties. Some people still say that this is a good way to lose weight. But the frustration is to most people unbearable. The constant hunger feeling, the tastelessness, the cravings, the feeling that there is so much you miss out on, makes the frustration no better.

Fortunately we now know that food isn’t bad for your weight. And even ‘too much’ food is in some cases not a problem. When you make some small changes to what you eat and how you eat it, controlling your weight becomes easy. Actually it’s very simple.

Eating is not your enemy in weight loss, but your friend.

We must face it that without food we’ll die. We need it for basic survival. And we need it for optimal health. Being healthy means that our bodies function at its best, and that we are able to burn the energy we consume through our food.

To some people it’s only a dream to eat as much as they need and still control their weight. To you it can be a reality.

Stay with the basics.

Here are some broad guidelines, the basics on how to eat to be healthy and in shape.

Increase your nutritional intake and be balanced. We all know that refined and processed food is high in calories and low in nutrition. If there are any vitamins in a hamburger, would it be sufficient for your body’s needs? Nope, there’s no way it’ll be sufficient. Cravings develop when you have some kind of nutritional deficiency.

The best place to find unadulterated nutrition is in fresh foods and free range/ wild caught meats. Fruit vegetables, nuts, fish, chicken, beef, and so forth are the best place to find higher nutrition and lower calories. A good idea is to add something fresh every day to your meals. All your body's nutritional needs should be met. That is on every level of the nutritional categories, which is protein, carbohydrates, fibre, vitamins, minerals, essential fats and trace elements. Don't forget water. Without it our bodies cannot function properly.

To make sure that you achieve nutritional balance, a great food supplemental range would give you peace of mind.

Don’t count the calories, but reduce it. In the above paragraphs about high nutrition, we already mentioned low calories. Fresh and natural food’s calories are mostly low. In comparison to refined food, it’s very low. What we try to achieve is to eat less calories than we need. Then the body will start to burn the stored energy, which is the unwanted fat.

There is even some food that is called negative calorie foods. The meaning of negative calories is that the body uses more energy to digest these foods than these foods provide. To find a list of negative calorie foods, just search on the internet. It is not really proven that these foods use more energy that it provides, but still it’s very low in calories.

And naturally, reduce your intake of unhealthy food. That is junk food, pre-packed food, high in sugar drinks and seasoning, bad fats, etc. My personal rule is to cheat once a week. I normally eat these very unhealthy foods on Friday evenings. The rest of the week, I do my best to stay with the more natural foodstuff.

Get peace of mind with good supplements.

Supplements are something that definitely needs attention in this newsletter. A great supplementation range gives the peace of mind that the basic nutrients are covered. It doesn’t replace an apple or fish. Still where some nutrients get lost due to various reasons, these supplements top the nutritional value up.

The range I use personally and recommend to all my clients is Herbalife. This nutritional range is a great tool to increase your nutritional intake and reduce your calories.

You already know how to eat to manage your weight. This article brought the basics together. And I hope that you’ll find it very easy and simple to eat to be healthy. Keep to the basics, the broad guidelines and managing your weight will become easy.

[Note: Order visit Herbalife's website at www.herbalifeww.com/za and order your products directly from me. Let me also help you to develop a high nutrition, low calorie eating plan.]