New Years is a time for new beginnings, and so it can often be the push you need to set your weight loss or wellness goals. However, more often than not you find yourself spending hundreds of pounds on weight loss supplements, plans, groups and gym memberships, but the only thing that ends up losing weight is your wallet. Therefore, to make weight loss a habit, rather than an empty promise you make on the 1st of January, you need to take control over your food and lifestyle choices to ensure your wellbeing.
Firstly, you have minimal control over the value of nutrients in the foods you eat. Over-farming has lead to the nutrients in soil becoming partially depleted, and, in some cases, they are only minimally available and barely able to sustain the life of the plant. Why not try growing your own, nutrient-dense food? You’ll need a garden with rich compost to replace nutrients lost in the soils. Otherwise, choose organic foods, which are more sustainable and scientifically proven to have more nutrients.
The need for your control over the foods you eat is not only true for vegetables, but for every piece of food that passes your lips. Choose meats that are from local, natural sources, as beef that comes from big, factory operations are fatty, and designed to be sold cheaply. This means that the beef is developed on cheap foods, cheap living conditions and lots of antibiotics and growth hormones to get it bigger, faster. These are unsafe conditions for slaughter, and moreover the majority of recalls for contaminated beef, chicken and pork come from factories because of the cramped and dirty conditions, as well as the meat being developed too fast for safety. Natural sources of meat allow the animals humane conditions with room to move around, which is not only more ethical but also represses disease, is better for the economy, keeping money in our local area, and nutritionally, the majority of fats are heart-healthy Omega-3s.
Finally, avoid foods the come in a box or can. Foods that are packaged in this way are removed of healthy fats and nutrients in order to stay on the shelf any longer than a couple of days. Therefore, boxed foods lose over half of the nutrient value and you need to eat twice as much, as well as being at risk to Type II Diabetes and High Blood Pressure, as these foods are often high in salts and sugars. A single apple contains more fibre than a whole bowl of any cereal, a single serving of broccoli contains more calcium than a big glass of milk and a teaspoon of fresh parsley contains more Vitamin C than most supplements, so why don’t you consult a dietician or nutritionist to find out what other foods you can incorporate into your diet to achieve weight loss and wellness that sticks all through the year?
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