Summer Diet Cure: Watermelon Diet
The water melon diet is indicated to those who want to lose weight as well to those who have renal affections (like urinary infections) or stomach ulcers.
Watermelon diet. Watermelons are highly recommended in diets because they are low in sugar and rich in antioxidants (like licopene), water (96%), vitamins (A, C, B6) and potassium. What not all people know is the fact that water melon must be consumed alone, not with other aliments (bread, ice-cream, or whipped cream) if you want to loose some weight.
Here is a model of how the water melon diet can be followed:
Each day you will eat one or two slices of watermelon at the breakfast. One cup of coffee or green tea with honey is permitted. You will also eat watermelon as a snack at 11 o’clock and at 16 o’clock. As you might not satisfy your hunger only with water melon you can have some dietetic biscuits with 20 minutes before eating the slices of water melon. For lunch and dinner you will find some ideas to follow in the next rows:
Dieting post marathon 4. Carbohydrates and their functions in diet
What are carbohydrates and how they work?
I like to refer to carbohydrates as the fuel for our body, which is in reality quite true, they act as the main energy supplier for your body.
Our body is constantly burning energy, in a form of carbohydrates or fats. So it is pretty easy to figure out that when our body has too much fuel it has to store it somewhere, and the only logical place for our body to do that is body fat.
There are two basic types of carbohydrates, the simple and the complex carbohydrates.
Their names both come from their molecular structure. When we refer to simple carbohydrates we usually refer to refined sugars and processed food.
Dieting post marathon 2. How can proteins benefit your diet?
Since proteins are the least likely to be turned into body fat, the most logical way then is to base your diet mostly on them.
Fats and carbohydrates are the cause of obesity and you should avoid consuming them as much as possible.This doesn’t mean you should completely stop consuming them, this simply means you should choose your consuming of fats and carbohydrates carefully and only eat the healthy and good ones.
So what are proteins?
They are large organic compounds of amino acids, that act as construction material for our body cells.
Our body is made mostly out of water around 60-70% is water and almost 20% of the rest are proteins. And the proteins are made from amino acids, where there is about 20 different groups of them.
Dieting post marathon 1. Dieting tips
The actual ratio between the importance of nutrition and exercise is 70/30, which means that you should really focus on your diet and really go deep into it and focus on the food you consume.
Probably the most important reason that you are overweight in the first place, is that you have or have had bad nutritional habits over the past years.
So you have to understand that it took time gaining all that weight, it will also take time losing it. The first tip I will give you is to start counting your calories, just note down how much you eat.
There is a simple formula that can quickly calculate the number of calories you need for losing weight.