This article builds on the things I have been discussing in how to maintain your ideal weight. If you havent read that one yet, I recommend you do so now.
So, which steps can you take to maintain healthy weight? Here are a couple of tips you can follow:
1. Cut right back on white breads, pastries, pasta, biscuits, cakes and refined sugars (for example, in soft drinks and chocolate, and sugar in tea and coffee).
2. For healthy bowel flora and regular bowel movements, include 1 teaspoon of psyllium husks on your breakfast cereal. Note that yellow cheeses such as cheddar can cause constipation.
3. Include wholemeal fibres on a daily basis: brown rice, grainy wholemeal breads and high-fibre cereal. Also include raw foods such as carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, beetroot and celery in salads or as snacks.
4. Eat yoghurt daily that contains acidophilus (a natural flora), which is essential for regulating healthy bacteria in the bowel and therefore in assisting digestion.
5. If you crave sugar, try a small snack of Vita-Weat or rye biscuits, or fruit between meals. Yoghurt with fruit will slow down your digestion of the sugar in the fruit.
6. Exercise three to four times a week for an hour to keep your metabolism burning unwanted fat.
7. Maintain a high fluid intake of filtered water, herbal tea (three to four glasses of each a day) and fresh raw juices (one vegetable or fruit juice daily).
8. Eat small meals frequently. Liquid foods such as soup and raw juices also help. Raw or gently steamed vegetables can be eaten any time; they do not add fat or excess fluid.
9. Take one to two acidophilus capsules before each meal to assist digestion and ease a bloated stomach.
10. Take one B6 tablet (100 mg) after each meal to assist metabolism and moods and prevent fluid retention.
11. Take one chromium tablet (which controls cravings for sugar) after each meal. Take one gymnema tablet three times a day to help balance your insulin levels.
Hope this tips will help you maintain healthy weight and beautiful body figure!