Your diet is the best place to begin because it makes other steps of the process, like exercising, much easier when you have the right diet in place. Otherwise, you could end up exercising and feeling faint or dizzy, and you could experience extended muscle soreness and fatigue afterwards. First and foremost, you need to give your body the nutrients that it needs to make weight loss easier, not to mention more enjoyable.
This starts with your daily food intake. Simply put, for three meals a day, you should be consuming a carbohydrate, a fruit or vegetable, and a protein in even proportions, and two snacks in-between. Where possible, make sure this carbohydrate is a whole grain as this gives you slow-release energy and is much better for you weight than simple carbohydrates. Also, you need to get plenty of good cholesterol from sources such as a variety of nuts, eggs, and fish and including olive oil. Try to include some sort of fish in at least one meal a day, because it’s a great source of protein and the Omega-3 oils in fattier fishes such as salmon and mackerel are vital for quick and healthy weight loss, as well as heart wellness.
When it comes to breakfast, try starting the day right with fruit, a bowl of oatmeal and some bacon or sausage, followed by a multivitamin. Having fruit with your meal in the morning, and vegetables for the other meals, is a good idea because the sugar from fruit will help you to start your day by giving you the energy that you need, but vegetables contain more vitamins and minerals than fruit and therefore must be in your diet more often. The fibre from both will slow down your absorption of carbohydrates, and allow you to burn them off before your body stores them as fat. Fruit also makes a great snack for one of the two in the day, but if you don’t have much of a sweet tooth, or you want to avoid eating too much sugar, turn to protein bars or nuts.