Weight loss diet tips...
This Weight Loss Diet Tips Page is from the Cretan Bowl Diet website that offers good advice and information on how you can achieve your healthy shape and weight.
It is easy to follow and a brilliant new and easy slimming diet to suit almost everyone.
It gives weight loss tips and a slimming diet plan to help you lose weight easily and without hunger pangs.
Time Saving
The recipe suggestions for the Cretan Bowl Diet Dinners are based on servings for two. You can either share the meal with a spouse, partner or friend or eat one portion and freeze the other for yourself to eat at a later date. Or you can adjust the quantities for a family meal.
Metabolism
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You MUST eat a complete bowl of food at each meal – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on the Cretan Bowl Diet.
Under no circumstances skip breakfast. If you cannot face breakfast first thing in the morning at say 7.30am – eat it later at 9.00am or even 10.00am. Personally, I have my breakfast after I have completed my daily walk.
Whenever you choose to eat breakfast is fine. Missing breakfast on a successful diet plan will not allow you to become slimmer sooner – just the opposite will happen.
Also do not think that cutting back or not fully filling your bowl meals will be helpful – it won’t. You may be thinking that a complete bowlful of vegetables with plenty of protein and olive oil is a lot of food to eat and you’d be right.
But strange as it may seem if you eat too little, as is compulsory with many diets, you not only deprive your body of nutrients, feel ravenous and become susceptible to binging, but also your metabolism will slow down making it very difficult to lose weight. So quite simply eat enough food to lose weight on this simple diet plan.
Nutrition
Although the Cretan Bowl Diet will provide you with plenty of nutrients, vitamins and minerals, you can choose to take a multivitamin and mineral supplement daily. You can also choose to take extra calcium in tablet form if you want to.
Does Size Matter?
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What size bowl is right? Common sense needs to prevail on this question. An average cereal or soup bowl that can hold at least half a litre or just short of a pint of water is what you should be aiming for.
The beautiful hand made Cretan Bowls available from this site are just perfect!
Just bear in mind that a very large man will need a larger bowl compared with a small woman for example. Again use common sense on this. An average daily calorie intake is around 1000 – 1600 on the Cretan Bowl Diet dependent on amounts and types of food.
Weigh In
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Weigh yourself just once a week. Jumping on and off the scales daily is not a good idea as you can easily become discouraged.
Fluctuations in weight throughout the day and week do occur naturally.
Often scales are not a true indicator that you are becoming leaner, fitter and healthier. This is one of the best weight loss diet tips I can give.
Before and After
Pluck up courage to take a ‘before’ photo of yourself. Once you reach your healthy shape and size you’ll be so proud of your accomplishments and will have pictorial evidence to prove it!
Also try to complete a Diet Diary to help record your progress.
Don’t Be Dense
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Although you can eat almost all fruits and vegetables in hefty amounts on this slimming diet go easy on the denser types. Avocado, banana and parsnips for example should be used more sparingly than less dense varieties such as melon, cucumber and tomatoes.
Basically watery fruits and vegetables should make up about three quarters of your allowance topped off with denser varieties.
Environmentally friendly
You’ll have noticed that the bulk of your shopping needed for the Cretan Bowl Diet is green – and I don’t just mean in colour!
Because you are ridding junk food, tinned and plastic wrapped foods from you diet you will have far less rubbish to throw away.
Also by choosing to eat fresher seasonal and locally grown produce you will do your bit in lowering the carbon emissions involved in transporting foods from afar.
By becoming greener in your diet you naturally are doing your body a favour but also are being kinder to the planet.
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And what could be more natural than fresh tasting and refreshing tea. The Cretan Bowl Diet Slimming Tea is a blend of natural herbs that adds up to a very refreshing, fragrant and therapeutic brew that can help you shed excess weight easily and quickly.
The herbs that are used in the slimming tea are delightfully pure and natural and are locally hand harvested here on the Greek island of Crete without any artificial ingredients, colourings or flavourings. They are 100% organic and natural.
You can BUY THIS SLIMMING TEA NOW! Simply click here to go to our Order page and you can buy this authentic Tea directly from the Cretan Bowl Diet website - from Crete itself.
Variety – the Spice of Life!
Try to vary the ingredients you use each day in your meal bowls as this helps staying motivated far easier. It can get so boring having apple, pear and banana for breakfast. Try having a tasty mango, kiwi or juicy peach instead.
Also salads can be far more interesting than just lettuce, tomato and cucumber. add some herbs and spices to your meals.
Look at the Cretan Bowl Diet Food List for inspiration. Be creative!
Seasonal
Try as much as you can to buy the bulk of your shopping as fresh seasonal, locally grown produce (preferably organic). This is not just a green environmentally sound life style choice but also the produce usually contains more nutrients.
Bowl or Plate?
Empty the contents of your dinner meal bowl onto a plate if it is too difficult to eat straight from a bowl. Try eating a pork chop or steak from a bowl with a spoon and you’ll understand what I mean!
Family Meals
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The Cretan Bowl diet is great for none dieters too. Family members, including children can really benefit from the Cretan Bowl diet by simply adding some of the foods from the traditional Cretan diet.
If your family members are a healthy shape and weight they can include further ingredients such as Greek Yoghurt topped with honey to their breakfast fruits.
They can also include some starches such as bread, rice, pasta, cereal and potatoes into their lunch and dinner meals. Or they could add some pulses such as beans, lentils etc. They can also drink milk and have a wider choice of dairy products. In this way, even shopping, preparing and cooking for a family should not be a chore while on the Cretan Bowl Diet.
You will not need to prepare ‘diet meals’ for you and different meals for your family. Just add a jacket potato or slice of bread to their meal and they won’t even realise they are eating ‘diet food’. Remember the health benefits of the traditional Cretan Diet are well documented and scientifically proven to promote long and healthy lives.
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