How to Lose Weight Eating Organically

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There are so many diets out there. The reason for this is because most of them don't work so they are constantly coming up with new ones. The best way to lose weight is to eat healthy and watch your portions. The healthiest food is organic because it is free from pesticides and anti-biotics. This article will tell you how you can lose weight eating organically.

Things You'll Need

• Various organic foods

Instructions

1. Give away your store brand foods and purchase organic groceries. Organic groceries will be properly labeled as such so they are easy to identify.

2. Find out your serving size. Losing weight is all about portion control. Read the label to find out what one serving size is. Have you ever picked up a bag of pretzels and just munched until you weren't hungry any more? The best thing to do is read the label. Say the pretzel bag says serving size 8 pretzels. Then you would take 8 pretzels out of the bag and put the bag away. You only eat those 8 pretzels. Buy only organic snacks.

3. Use your dinner plate as a pie chart. Start filling half of your dinner plate with veggies or a salad. Divide the remaining half of a plate in to two sections. That means each section is 1/4 of your plate. 1/4 should be some kind of protein: organic chicken, turkey, beef, etc. The other 1/4 can be your grains: pasta, rice, or potato. If it doesn't fit in that section, don't eat it.

4. Don't drink your calories. You can drink as much water as you like, but other drinks are only going to take away from the total calories you can take in in one day. That will leave you feeling hungry and discouraged. If you don't like water, learn to. Even those vitamin waters have a lot of calories and there is no substitute for natural water.

5. Stay away from junk food even if it is organic. Even though sweets are listed in the food pyramid that doesn't mean you need to eat them. They have no nutritional benefit and will just take up the calories you could be using for healthier foods.

6. Keep track of your calories and don't go over your limit. Most individuals should consume 2000-2500 calories per day. If you are eating all organic foods and staying away from the sweets and staying within your calorie range, you should begin to see the weight come off naturally.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have a favorite food brand such as Prego, check to see if they have an organic version of it. Prego does and it tastes just as delicious. Most companies are trying to cash in on the organic market and actually make an organic version of their product.

• Don't starve yourself. If you have ever watched NBC's "Biggest Loser" you would know that when the contestants didn't eat all of their recommended calories for the day, they actually lost weight. Your body needs that balance.