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In many ways the refrigerator is the cornerstone of any healthy eating plan.  How you stock that fridge can make a huge difference in the success or failure of any healthy eating plan.  From what foods it contains, to where they are stored, the refrigerator can be vitally important to healthy eating.

The first step should be to take stock of just what the refrigerator contains. The bachelors among us may already be familiar with this process, but taking stock of the fridge means more than just throwing away those foods that have begun to turn green or grow hair.

Taking stock of the contents of the fridge should mean a monthly review of everything it contains.  During this review, separate the healthier foods from the others.  It is important to make sure that you have more low fat, high fiber and low sugar foods than high fat low fiber and high sugar ones.  If the ratio is off, try to shop for healthier foods.

Another great trick for keeping a healthy refrigerator is to hide the less healthy foods.  Try hiding the desserts and other such foods in the crisper, where they will be out of sight and not constantly tempting you.  Since fresh fruits and vegetables tend to dry out if they are not used right away, store them in plain sight to increase their likelihood of being eaten.  Hiding cakes in the produce drawers, and prominently displaying the fruits and vegetables, is a smart way to keep a healthy fridge.

Another tip is to organize the refrigerator into different sections, and to segregate those sections into sometimes foods (unhealthy choices) and everyday foods (healthy choices).  Try to place the healthier foods in the front of the refrigerator, while relegating the unhealthier choices to the back.

Substitution is another great strategy for creating a healthy fridge and a healthy lifestyle.  There are low fat and nonfat versions of literally hundreds of different foods.  Try substituting skim or 1% milk for whole milk, soft margarines for fattier butter, and low fat sour cream for the full fat varieties.  Try replacing fattier meats with leaner ones, or with chicken and fish.  Even a simple change, like substituting a soft margarine for butter, can result in significant savings of saturated fat.

For those families with young children, it is important to involve the entire family in healthy eating lifestyles.  The habits children learn in childhood often follow them throughout their adult lives, so it makes a lot of sense to get them off to a great start.  Try decorating healthy foods with fun stickers, stars, or other colorful items.

Stickers and stars are not the only way to make healthy foods more appealing.  Try storing healthy foods with attractive, delicious toppings to make them more interesting and appealing.  Try storing a container of berries next to the low fat yogurt, or a bottle of chocolate syrup with the 1% milk.  Mixing these foods together is a great way to create healthy snacks quickly.

Another key to creating a healthy refrigerator is to use leftovers wisely.  Leftovers can be very useful, and healthy meals make healthy leftovers.  Try using leftovers as lunches, or as healthy snacks for the next day.

Ready to eat meals are a great way to encourage healthy eating.  Try this handy trick – when you return from your weekly grocery shopping, take the time to create some quick single serving meals and stack them in the fridge.  In addition, try making some quick snacks by cutting up fresh fruits and vegetables and storing them in single serving containers.

Using the freezer space in your refrigerator wisely is important as well. Freezing foods that won’t be used right away is a great way to make your food dollar go further and to provide quick meals for your family.  Try freezing foods in portion sizes.  This will make it easier to eat healthier meals, and it will help ensure everyone gets their favorites.  When looking at portion sizes, remember that the recommended serving size of meat is 3 ounces, roughly equivalent to the size of a deck of playing cards.  The standard serving size for pasta is one cup, while a serving of vegetables is ½ cup.

The freezer can also be a great way to create fun fruit snacks for the entire family.  Freezing healthy fruits like grapes, orange slices and bananas make great snacks for children and adults alike.

By: Keith Ckardwell
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When you try to lose weight, the first thing you do, is watch your diet by eating low fat and fat free foods. Maybe try some of the fad diets like the GM diet, Atkins Diet, Raw Banana Diet or the Lemon Detox Diet, or just a plain crash diet. In the first couple of weeks, you see some weight loss, but in just 2 months, you gain the weight back.

Firstly, all fad diets are extremely unhealthy- Read here about GM diet side effects, Atkins diet side effects, why the Raw Banana diet is unhealthy and the Lemon Detox diet as well as why crash diets are unhealthy.

Then, everyone’s body has a different chemistry. Due to this, a generic diet plan besides having possible side effects will not result in effective weight loss.

Also, many diet plans are not made for Indian diets or vegetarian diets, so many of the diet components either are not allowed in your diet, or are not available in India.

When you decide to try a diet by yourself, you are literally making yourself a guinea pig, since you don’t know if it will work for you. Creating a diet plan is very time consuming. To implement it, is even harder. With the lack of understanding of diets, your body chemistry and lack of experience in creating effective diets, before you start, you’ve already shot your chances of losing weight on the diet.

Often self made diet plans are very unrealistic, so they are great to make, hard to implement and even harder to follow. Besides, many self made diet plans have unbalanced nutrition and thus unhealthy.

So, how do you make an effective diet plan? Without understanding the science of diets and weight loss, its impossible to make an healthy and effective diet plan.

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What Is The EODD Diet Plan?

EODD stands for The Every Other Day Diet (EODD for short.) and it is a fun and affective version of an eat every other day diet plan.  Now before you panic and click away from this article, The Every Other Day Diet does not advocate eating only every other day, but instead it helps you plan a lean protein diet that will start you losing weight.  As you know, these types of diets can often run into long periods of no weight loss even though you are following the plan.  The Every Other Day Diet or EODD for short uses a fun and innovative way around this problem.  It incorporates “feed days” into the EODD diet plan to boost your metabolism and keep your body from plateauing in it weight loss.  So as  you can see it is not strictly an eat every other day diet like the QOD diet is. (Available from Amazon)

The EODD Diet Is Easier To Follow For Emotional Eaters

I have never been sure what an emotional eater was, I mean who doesn’t like to eat?  But if we are talking about feeling trapped by long periods eating in a way we don’t like when we are on a diet then the EODD diet plan is the best answer I have found.  With the EODD diet plan you are never a long time away from eating the foods you like and this makes the EODD diet plan the easiest one to stick to that I have found.

The 7 Minute Muscle

The EODD Diet Plan incorporates exercise for fitness.  Jon, the author, believes that weight loss and fitness go hand in hand, but if you really want to lose the weight and get in shape you can utilize Jon’s 7 Minute Muscle guide to fitness.  The beauty of this guide is its ability to fit into any type of schedule and while losing weight on the EODD diet plan the 7 Minute Muscle will help you build lean muscle tissue which further promotes weight loss.  This combination makes a very doable diet fitness plan.

Why Most People Fail On A Diet Fitness Plan.

Unlike The EODD and 7 Minute Muscle diet fitness plan, most other plans labeled, diet fitness plan, set you up for failure because they are either to complicated to follow or they require too much of your time.  Most people quit a diet fitness plan because of these two issues.  The EODD and 7 Minute Muscle diet fitness plan can easily fit into your schedule and help you stay on track because of the “feed days” and the compact ease of The 7 Minute Muscle.

The Draw Backs.

The EODD and 7 Minute Muscle are not automatic-take-a-pill solutions to your health they will require some effort and commitment from you, but just like a word processor helps you write more efficiently than just a pen and paper, the EODD and 7 Minute Muscle will help you attain your health goals faster than just salads and an exercise mat. 

By: Christian Walker
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While planning my obligatory family visit back to western PA in October 2011 I noticed the PA Renaissance Faire was in progress. Since I fly into Washington National it was a little bit of a detour to Mannheim, PA, but I decided to give it a shot. After a redeye flight from Alaska and getting lost around Baltimore I made it to the Faire late on Saturday afternoon, half groggy, but ready to check it out it. Nice faire, a bit expensive, but worth the detour. I went back on Sunday for more of the faire and was in much better shape. Overall, a very nice experience. I had a program with the performers but it is currently MIA, so if you happen to know any of the names, please let me know

Date Taken: 2011-10-23 06:01:41
Owner: Alaskan Dude

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Eat Every Other Day Diet Weight Loss Diet Plan?
It is funny how I have often thought of this myself on many occasions, what if I could just fast every other day and then eat normally every other day? You see, my biggest bugaboo with diets are the fact that you have to radically change the way you love to eat to a way you absolutely hate to eat. So you tolerate this new hateful way of eating because you are losing weight.

The truth is that even if you can gut it out until you have achieved your weight goals, what then? Keep eating this rotten hateful way the rest of your life? I think not. So there you go sliding back to your old fat self—sigh! This is definitely not a good lose weight diet plan. A good lose weight diet plan would some how let you eat the way you love and still you’d lose weight. That is why I was thinking of an eat every other day diet, lose weight diet plan!

It sounded good until I Tried it. Wow, it is hard to fast every other day. Then I ran across the Eat-Stop-Diet that just had me fasting for two 24 hour periods a week. That was better until I went back to work. Then that didn’t work either–hello old fat self. I needed to rethink my lose weight diet plan.

EODD to the rescue

When I first saw Jon’s title, Every Other Day Diet (EODD for short.) I wasn’t impressed. Been there and done that! Jon’s answer was, “no you haven’t” He went on to explain the differences the EODD lose weight diet plan had with the intermittent fasting lose weight diet plan that I’d been trying. First of all the EODD lose weight diet plan didn’t have you actually fasting at all. In place of the fasting was a lean protein diet. This lose weight diet plan was looking better already. “Look”, Jon explained, “I have put 4 different levels into my lose weight diet plan and on the fastest level you can lose up to 21 pounds in 21 days!” Now I was interested.

The EODD lose weight diet plan
Like my lose weight diet plan the EODD lose weight diet plan lets you tuck into the great foods you love to eat, but unlike my lose weight diet plan the EODD lose weight diet plan doesn’t have you fasting. Instead you are eating lean protein on the burn days.

“Look, Jon”, I said, “What can I eat on my “feed days?” He replied, “Today I went for some New York-style pizza here in Austin, Texas. Do I feel ‘guilty’? No way… in fact tomorrow I will feel LEANER. What the what? I had to set up my body for this bit of metabolic trickery of course. You cannot just “eat pizza” and shed the pounds… I wish you could! But my personal System for fat loss not only “allows” pizza (and all my other favorite foods)… it DEMANDS that I eat it.

I’ll try your lose weight diet plan
I guess that was all I needed to here, this lose weight diet plan seemed doable for me. Yes, I still had to work at it, exercise and stay committed and all that stuff, but all that stuff was much easier on the EODD lose weight diet plan. Sure the EODD lose weight diet plan my not be for you and some other lose weight diet plan is, but I would check the EODD lose weight diet plan out at least since there is a 60 day money back guarantee. Now excuse me while I take my second slice of pizza.

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Date Taken: 2012-02-12 19:02:48
Owner: MadPole

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As the old adage goes, “you are what you eat”. If your regular diet consists of fat and cholesterol-rich foods, you may run the risk of developing dreadful diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and more. According to nutrition experts, healthy eating starts with learning the ability to “eat smart”. It’s not just what you eat, but how you eat. The food you choose to eat can help decrease your chances of developing illnesses like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and others. Learn how to plan your diet, and expand your range of healthy food choices too. Here are some helpful tips for planning a healthy diet.

Start Slow, And Gradually Change Your Eating Habits

The quest to achieving a healthy diet starts with a slow but calculated step. The way for planning and implementing a healthy diet begins with a number of small and manageable steps. Approach the diet changes gradually, and you’ll be able to achieve a healthy diet no sooner than you think.

However, instead of fussing over counting calories or measuring serving sizes, set your sights on finding the food you love, and go for easy recipes which incorporate fresh ingredients. Make small but significant steps, like adding salads or your daily diet, or use olive oil instead of butter. By making gradual changes, your diet will slowly become healthier and more savory too.   

Ensure That You Regularly Serve Yourself Smaller Portions

These days, serving sizes have blown out of proportion, especially in restaurants. If you’re dining out, don’t immediately order an entrée, or go on a buffet binge. Instead, go slow, choose a starter, or split a dish with your buddy, and never super-size your orders. Your servings of poultry, meat and fish should only be equal to the size of a deck of cards, and the oil or salad dressing you use must only be as large as the size of a matchbook.    

It’s How You eat, Not What You Eat

The key to healthy eating lies not in just what you eat, but in how you eat. Learning to develop healthy eating habits can easily be achieved, since eating is not just about gulping down large amounts of food, but in viewing food as a source of nourishment. Practice eating a wide array of fruits and vegetables everyday. Most nutritionists continually stress that the brighter and deeper colored the fruits and vegetables are, the higher their concentrations of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants will be. Go for green leafy veggies, sweet vegetables and a wide array of fruits.

In addition, make sure that you consume healthy amounts of healthy carbohydrates and fibers, particularly from whole grains. Apart from being tasty and satisfying, whole grains are also rich in antioxidants and phytochemicals, which strengthen the immune system, and protect against cardiovascular diseases. A number of studies have indicated that people who consume sizable portions of whole grains have healthier hearts.  

By: Dina Brown
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