Healthy Diet Plan

A healthy diet plan is determined by many factors and it's not always determined by how many calories one eats. The quality of the calories and fitness also play a big role.

The days are long gone when people should spend time counting the calories they are eating as the main way to lose weight.

REGULAR EXERCISE AND DIET

A diet plan seems to make more sense and is more lasting if a regular fitness plan is included right along with making better food choices.

A perfect example of a fitness plan that many people have been drawn too over the past few decades especially is running to lose weight and how running burns calories.

It's great because you can start out walking, than power-walking, and as fitness improves, begin running. Many people who start out with plans of dieting to lose weight actually end up becoming accomplished runners because they enjoy it so much and feel so good they don't want to gain the weight back.

Some people get so excited about their new-found fitness and endurance that they might even look into sprint triathlons and in the process learn lots of new skills.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Don't under-estimate the value of some foods and drinks we take for granted, or perhaps to the other extreme, food we know nothing about.

For instance a healthy diet should include sufficient amounts of water, because there are many benefits of drinking water that people are not aware of and the roll it can play in our over-all health should not be under-estimated.

However, there is a healthy balance and it is possible to drink too much water. Water is a perfect example of something that is essential, but more is not necessarily better.

Have you every tried olive oil in your diet? What a great addition to a healthy diet plan.

Olive oil is a far healthier choice than pretty well any other oil on the market except for perhaps one. There are too many olive oil benefits to mention in a few sentences.

The same can be said for coconut oil. Not only is it great tasting, the benefits of coconut oil are amazing.

It's the first oil I ever tried that actually helped me lose weight. Better yet, it tastes great as well.

FOODS WE THINK ARE BAD

If ever a food has gotten a bad wrap, it's eggs. Finally however, people are figuring out that eggs can be part of a healthy diet plan.

The biggest problem has been that people never truly understood eggs. They just read that there is a lot of fat in those yolks, so they must be bad.

That theory has been proven false over the past few years and benefits of egg nutrition is finally being accepted.

Like pretty much every thing else, eggs should be eaten in moderation, but there are few foods that are a better source of protein.

Coffee if another much-maligned nutritional source of energy and can also be included as part of a healthy diet plan. Athlete coffee drinkers figured this out a long time ago and have used it to enhance athletic performance for years.

As far as losing weight, if coffee increases your endurance and energy levels, than it only stands to reason that it will enable you to exercise longer and as a result, help you burn calories.

HOLIDAY DIETING

We could all use a holiday diet plan in order to avoid taking a step backward.

It's fine to have a healthy diet plan, but it's important to maintain it over the holiday season as well. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy a turkey dinner. It means simply making some better choices.

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