Unhealthy and Healthy Dieting

by Greg
(Chandler)

I've lost a lot of weight, but I did it the unhealthy and foolish way. The first week I just went two days eating only an apple, or an orange. I broke it with eating a sandwich from a grocery store deli, and then I went back into the “small eating” diet.

Then a week after that, I got carried away, trying to drop off the rest of the fat. I ended up with blood sugar problems and I looked really small, but weird small! My arms and waist was extremely tiny. My face was pale. Finnily enough, it took me only 1 month to put all the weight back on.

Later on in the year, I decided to take a different approach: eating healthy. I decided to eat more fruits and vegetables, and more raw foods. I got greater results and more energy. I have also recovered from my conditions that I have gotten from my reckless dieting.

I did research on what foods are better for you and I dieted based on what I learned. I figured out that dieting is not deprivation of any sort, but simply a replacement of some unhealthy foods with some of the healthier foods.

Of course you don't want to completely get rid of some of your favorite foods, but you want to be moderate. You want to decrease your junk food intake and increase your healthy food intake. Everything in moderation, as they say!

Healthy Eating At Its Finest

by Kelley Pike
(Perry, GA, USA)

For three years now, I have been cutting back on simple carbohydrates. My body is looking better than ever before and I am feeling so much better than before.

Once I began to cut them out of my diet, my body began to transform. I have always been overweight, at my heaviest I was a little over 200 pounds but now I am at 150. I began my diet really simple, I just didn't eat any rice or white bread. I got so used to not eating them that I didn't miss them.

Then I moved on to the hardest part, not eating any pasta or potatoes. Truth be told, I really did love pasta and potatoes but I knew it would be for the better so I cut them out.

Once your body doesn't have those processed carbohydrates anymore, your body starts to feel so much better. It was definitely worth the change in my diet to feel better about myself overall.

I would recommend to everyone that they at least try to cut back on refined carbohydrates. In large amounts, they are very harmful to your body and your health.

Replace those carbs with complex carbs like green, leafy vegetables. They get your digestive system back on track and you begin to feel a lot better, your skin shines and you feel better mentally too.