The Tenets of Healthy Weight Loss

With the plethora of diets and weight loss plans out there, ultimately it’s not so much the specific plan, but the underlying tenets of the plan that are paramount.

Self-Monitoring

An efficient method to decreasing your caloric intake, according to research, is being mindful and attentive to what you are eating. Weighing is another practical self-monitoring habit that helps a person catch toxic slip-ups.

Nutrient Timing

With respect to optimizing our body composition, a gamut of recent research has demonstrated that it’s not only what we eat that is important, but when we eat also. A time of high caloric demand is the morning as calories consumed in the morning are most likely to be used for energy rather than stored as fat in comparison to those calories consumed in the latter part of the day.

Motivation

One big question in weight loss research is why some dieters falter in their plans to lose weight while others stay stable and strong? While there is no exact answer, one key factor playing a major role is motivation. Some stimuli have been indicated to elicit long-term success; for instance, research has found that people who have medical triggers for their weight loss are more successful in the long term than people who don’t.

Consistency

However eating healthily is not a one-time occurrence, but rather requires lifelong discipline and is a serious commitment for life. In fact, your chances of retaining a healthy body weight, according to research, are dependent on steady wholesome eating habits. Unlike many dieters, healthy eaters tend to eat the same during the week as on the weekends. The same holds for the
holidays versus the rest of the year. They tend to have a consistent eating pattern throughout the year.