What is a Healthy Diet

Series Summary

Everyone wants to live a fit and healthy life, but sometimes beginning a new low fat diet can be daunting and even challenging. Changing your eating habits and learning to prepare low calorie, low fat food might be difficult to acclimate to at first, but having a solid knowledge base about the types of foods that you can enjoy without guilt and some inspiration towards creating a delicious menu full of diet-friendly meals is a great start. Healthy snacks, exercise, and a refrigerator makeover are great steps for diet beginners, and this series will help jump start your diet easily.

In this free video series, learn tips for achieving a healthy weight loss. If are ready to change your life, our expert dietitian, Brenda L. Thompson, teaches you to begin weight loss in a healthy way. Learn how to set your goals, and how to identify dangerous fad diets. Also, learn how tips for shopping, snacking, and portion control. Brenda also shows you the best vitamins and minerals to take to aid weight loss. The hardest part of any diet is starting it. So, take some time, and start your new weight loss diet today!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and professional chef. I'm the owner of Life Skills Nutrition. In this segment today, I'm going to talk about how to lose weight and keep it off. Before you start a diet or any exercise regimen, you always want to consult your physician and your registered dietitian. These are only health tips to help you get started, they are not to replace a consultation between you and your doctor or between you and your registered dietitian. Life Skills Nutrition offers over the phone nutrition consultations for weight loss, and you can find out more information about that on my website. To lose weight and keep it off, today I'm going to cover a variety of topics including ten strategies for weight loss. I'm going to give you some questions on determining whether or not you're ready for weight loss, spotting fad diets, keeping a food diary, and then giving you some ideas on foods that you'll want to limit and foods that you'll want to add to your diet. There are many helpful tips in this segment, so I hope you enjoy. "