What’s The Best Diet For Weight Loss?
What’s The Best Diet For Weight Loss? The best diet for weight is a healthy and balanced one. Learn the specifics of a healthy, weight-loss friendly diet in this video.
Expert: Betty Keller, MD, FACR Board Certified Internal Medicine & Rheumatology »
Transcript
What’s the best diet for weight loss? The best diet for weight loss is one in which you take in FEWER calories than you EXPEND every day. And one that YOU can stick to.
We do know EXTREME diets that eliminate whole categories of foods, leave you hungry and unsatisfied and can slow your metabolism, making it harder to lose excess weight. Fad diets do NOT work in the long run.
In order to sustain permanent weight loss you need to make healthy lifestyle choices, including a diet based on vegetables, fruits, lean proteins and some whole grains and healthy fats.
Make sure you watch your portion sizes! Healthy choices have calories too.
Regular exercise is also important to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. You should aim for 1 to 2 pounds weight loss a week. Studies prove building in diet DAYS OFF helps you stick to your plan AND actually leads to more weight loss.
Last Modified: 2014-04-02
Category: Health and Nutrition, Videos
