Let’s have a look at a controlled calorie low carb diet. Watching calories, and reducing the number of carbs in your eating plan, is one way to watch your weight. For a vegetarian this can be a challenging way to eat. Most of the research that I have read would suggest that this is not a good long-term solution to a healthy eating plan, not even for weight loss purposes. I have observed the same with people that I have worked with. They do not last very long on it or they find that they succumb to carbohydrate cravings.

What we really want to identify here are those that are not serving us and we have to identify those which ones are giving our bodies heaps of nutrition. Bananas have lots and are very good for us, Doritos are not. A low carbohydrate way of eating leaves the body without enough fuel to feel energized and healthy.

Variety is very important in the diet. It is important to reduce the number of simple carbohydrates and increase the complex carbohydrates in our low calorie diet. If our objective is to lose weight, cut out all starches, breads, rice, potatoes, corn, etc and include large quantities of fresh vegetables and fruits.

Try and get your protein from organic, grange fed chicken, eggs, eating fish high in nutrients, like tilapia and North Atlantic salmon. Even better use legumes, lintels and small quantities of nuts and seeds or butters made from them. Sprouted grain breads and roles are good choices. They have great nutritional value, gives you something to bite into that will satisfy those cravings but will provide long lasting satisfaction.

A good controlled calorie low carb diet means eating less junk and making sure that every calorie that we eat has ample nutrition in it. Avoid the so called “empty” calories at all cost!

Good News! Losing weight can be achieved easier than you think. Go to Hendrika’s site Strip All That Fat for more weight loss tips and advice. You can also have a look at her Blog with the same name: Strip All That Fat.

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1. How much weight you want to lose?

2. By when you expect to lose all the weight?

Then write answers to these questions on a sheet of paper. Oh yeah, before I forget, let me tell you that writing your goals is one of the surefire ways of making sure that you never forget them! Write your weight loss goals on a piece of paper, make copies of that paper, and stick each paper on every place you can.

Make sure you don’t forget to stick this paper on your refrigerator and kitchen, since it is in these places that the demon called temptation tries to ruin your weight loss efforts!

Setting goals is just not enough; in order to make the goals achievable, you must set REALISTIC goals. If you have a goal of losing sixty pounds within a couple of weeks or a month, that is not going to happen. Setting such unrealistic goals for yourself will nullify the very effect of goal setting.

When you set unrealistic goals and fail to achieve the same, you will be disappointed and frustrated with yourself and your weight loss efforts.

Ideally, no matter what you do, you would be able to lose no more than 1-2 pounds per week. So create your goals accordingly. If you want to lose sixty pounds, it will take you at least six-seven months to achieve the same!

Set small and achievable goals for yourself so that when you achieve them, you will feel more confident to move forward. This is the biggest secret of successful weight loss!

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