TalkingDieting.com

If you want to make sure that your diet is giving you the right kind of effect, you should include a low fat diet along with a low calorie one. A combination of the two will definitely have much better and faster results and you will be able to maintain this weight loss much better. This is the kind of dieting that works. Just cutting back on the calories will not be able to help you much with your weight loss if the fat intake is not restricted as well. 

How can you tell that you need a low fat diet?

If you have reached a plateau and your weight is not coming down at all in spite of a very low calories diet then you obviously know that there is something wrong somewhere. Count the number of calories you have been consuming on a daily basis and if the calorie count is around 2000 then you know that it is the fat in your diet that is the culprit. A dieting that works will be one that has a combination of low fat and reduced calories too. 

What are the wrong foods in your diet?

It would help to jot down all that you eat in a day and make a sort of entry in your diary on a daily basis for a week. Now study the foods that have a lot of fat in them. Things like pizzas, heavy cheese based foods, desserts with a lot of cream, food that has a lot of butter in it, deep fried snacks, bakery foods with a lot of shortening in them; these are all the “sinful” foods that do not allow you to loose weight. Though you may have small helpings they are full of fat and will all add on the pounds to you. 

How do you fight the battle of the bulge?

Well what you will just have to do is to change your complete way of eating, there is no other way out. You can have more baked and grilled food with no butter or any other kind of fat in it, maybe a dash of olive oil could be permitted; instead of the creamy desserts you could settle for a fruit salad without the ice cream or cream or any kind of sweetening; snacking on fried stuff like finger chips or any other kind of fried food should be changed to snacking on carrot sticks, cucumber bits and salads and fruits instead. You could have fresh fruit juice instead of fizzy drinks and low fat milk and yogurt with a cereal for breakfast. Egg yolks are high in calories so opt for only the white of an egg; in fact you can have two whites instead of a complete egg. Avoid red meat and have baked fish or chicken without the skin instead. 

With all these changes in your food habits you are bound to loose weight and if this change is maintained, you will keep all that weight off permanently.