‘Diet and exercise’ are the only two words, OK three, you need to remember if you’re looking to lose weight or just have better general health.

There’s been much written how the American and Western diet is totally out of balance. Too much bad stuff – like sugars, fat and salt. Even too much good stuff – like carbohydrates. Just too many calories coursing through our bodies.

Also with exercise, our lifestyle generally doesn’t require us to move our bodies much. We sit for long hours at our desks, on the couch, in front of the computer, in the car. You get the picture.

Here we’ll look at Diet And Exercise strategies, such as low GI diet and  that will help you lose pounds and live a healthier, more energetic life.

Diet  – eat to lose weight
We’ve been led to believe that losing weight is all about eating less. It is. And it isn’t.

There’s no better way to lose weight or gain health than by eating. It’s just what you eat that matters. Healthy meals mean healthy you.

No surprises but if you really, really want to lose those pounds then you simply must eat much less sugary, fatty and salty foods. There’s lots of reasons why but take my word for it, foods rich in these are poor for your health. And the leading causes of weight-gain and obesity. An effective diet and exercise plan aims to gradually reduce your sugar and salt and fat intake.

OK but I did promise something about eating when dieting.

The best diet and nutrition idea is to look for foods that fill you up. If I’m less hungry I tend to eat less, especially snacks. If I eat less, I lose weight. No great revelations there.
Low GI foods are the best guide I find for hunger satisfying meals. There’s plenty about the supermarket so start your education next time your there.

There are some foods that you can pretty much eat as much as you like in a diet and exercise plan. It’s vegetables. Green vegetables are especially good but makes sure you get other colors as well.

Exorcise your fat with exercise
Get it out of your body by moving more. There’s two ways to burn calories through exercise. Incidental exercise and planned exercise.

Incidental exercise is moving around in your daily life. Walking to the station. Climbing stairs to the cinema. Cleaning the house. If your mindful of this type of exercise and do more of it you can burn 10% to 15% of your daily calorie intake. Without even really trying. See, diet and exercise doesn’t have to be rocket science.
Just do a little more of this incidental movement  – get off the bus or train one stop early. Do some weeding in the garden. Walk to the shops. Just take a nice walk with family or friends.

You might find adding more low GI foods and high protein foods will help give you the sustained energy to exercise more.

Planned exercise. To really trim down and change your body shape you’ve got to make exercising a part of your week.
I recommend you take it gradually. First few weeks just half an hour jog/walk and a few push-ups and sit-ups.
It won’t take long before you start really looking forward to your exercise. It’s then you’ll get creative with the exercises and maybe target parts of your body that you really want to change.

With anything related to diet and exercise you’ve just got to get started. Start small and keep it going. Before long you’ll notice changes to your energy levels and your body shape. It’s these changes that will keep your diet and exercise on track.

Enjoy!