Remember to lower your calorie count in a gradual manner. for instance if you have been downing approx. 1800 calories per day you can gradually cut down your intake down first to 1600 and then to 1400 calories/day. Read also: Visiting Mountainous Areas is a Good Way to Reduce Weight
A sudden and drastic reduction in the calories and consumption of food can switch over your body’s status to a "starving mode." ‘Starving mode’ can induce an insalubrious state in the body by dulling the metabolic mechanism of the body and leading to deposition of fatty content in the tissues of the organs.
There are plenteous diet plan combos that contain different concentrations of various nutrients such as of proteins, carbohydrates, and fat. Personally, I don’t trust in the percentage proportion of these constituents in the diet plan. The diet plan selection is based on the vital stats of the body of a person such as the weight, salubrious state, body structure, and sensitivity quotient etc. it’s for this reason that one diet plan doesn’t work in an equally effectual manner for all individuals.
Some of the chief components of a standard diet plan are:
- Proteinaceous food
- low carb foods
- foods containing unsaturated fats
- high fiber foods
- adequate water intake
Proteinaceous foods are an essential component of every diet plan. There are 8 types of essential and 14 types of non-essential amino acids. Proteins contained in these foods influence the body’s chemical processes and reactions to a major extent.
By consuming excessive amounts of proteinaceous foods, we tend to expose our body to an insalubrious state. When you follow a purely protein based diet, the metabolic rate of your body gets augmented by 25%. However, when you follow a diet plan that is composed of proteinaceous food sources and foods containing unsaturated fats and carbohydrates the metabolic rate of your body gets augmented by only 10%. Therefore, you can achieve a higher metabolic rate by following a diet that is purely proteinaceous in nature.
Carbohydrates – Carbs comprise of simple and complex sugars. Every time you consume a food that is rich in carbs, the metabolic system of your body breaks them into sucrose which is then readily absorbed by the cells of your body and converted to energy. If you eat foods rich in high carbs for prolonged period of time, your body’s metabolic system gets sluggish.
In such a case you would be required to change your eating habits. though the ideal proportion of low glycemic foods in your diet should be of 80% and that of high glycemic foods should be of 20%, there are many people who follow a diet that the percentages of foods in reverse order .
Ideally you should be following a diet that contains lesser amounts of foods that are can maintain High GF content such as potatoes, bread, corn, pasta, muffins, and any flour products as they promote the storage of sucrose in your body.
Increment the intake of LowGF in your diet. Most of the low glycemic foods are green, leafy vegetables that contain minimal amounts of carbohydrates and higher amounts of fiber.
Healthy Fats – there are many types of fats that do not incur any form of harm but prevent sucrose from running randomly through your blood stream. The healthy fats help you in losing rather than gaining weight. Some of the healthy fats that can be looked out for in the food sources are omega 3, omega 6, and medium chain fatty acids, MCFA.
The fatty content of the foods can be aggrouped in a viable manner to avoid the hogging in extra fats. Enlisted below are the standard percentages of every type of fat that your food should contain:
- saturated fats 10%
- polyunsaturated fats 20%
- monounsaturated fats 60%
These are the perfect percentages of the fatty yet non-fattening nutritional components of a standard diet.