How to Clean Up Your Diet Once and for All

Most people who find it really difficult to lose weight often shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to the execution of their fitness plans. The reason? Confusion due to unnecessary complexity. For the average person looking to shed some excess pounds, counting calories, keeping food diaries and so on is just too much of a hassle to keep up with, and in the end they’d rather do away with the dieting books and constant obsession with what they have ingested than the fat they initially wanted to lose.

For a beginner to the body recomposition game, you should set some very basic guidelines to begin with. Specialised diets are for specialised trainees. This will help you wade through all the traps complexity has set for you, and give you something to hold on to. The effectiveness of such diets are proven by the Atkins Diet, The South Beach Diet and so on – as the ‘rules’ that are to be followed are really quite simple.
Here’s three ways to clean up your diet, no nonsense style:


1) If God didn’t make it, don’t eat it – Don’t consume processed foods. It’s that simple. That means no TV dinners, sugary cereals, soda’s and so on. It isn’t really that difficult a concept to grasp.
What you should eat are things such as lean meats, eggs, vegetables, salads with olive oil and so on. The change you will see with this rule alone will give you the momentum and confidence to keep on track. Once you do start eating this way, you will notice a drastic change in what you consider ‘acceptable’ to eat.

Before, you wouldn’t have a second thought at picking up a bar of chocolate and munching away. This rule simply fixes that in a way where you don’t have to pull out a pocket sized calorie counting book to look up the item you’re about to eat.


2) Do not consume High Glycemic Index carbohydates – Low carbohydrate diets are the in thing nowadays, but there are carbohydates you can consume that do not affect your blood glucose (and therefore insulin and fat levels) to such a high degree. Fruits for example, are low on the GI scale. It would be wise to have a look at a GI chart and identify foods you eat normally and simply cut out the one’s that have a GI that is unacceptable.


3) Do not engage in a major lifestyle change: Works for some, but doesn’t for many. The slower the pace you go at, the smoother you will ease into it. If you all of a sudden decide to not eat High GI carbohydates, it will be unnecessarily difficult. Don’t make it hard on yourself, ease into it and take it one step at a time.