Healthy Grocery Shopping
Healthy grocery shopping is a critical part of eating healthy
to lose weight. Choosing healthy foods to eat instead of high
fat foods can benefit you in so more ways than just losing weight.
Eating healthy can effect the way you look and feel every minute
of every day. When you shop for healthy foods to eat, there are
a few basic things that can make it a little easier.
Here are a few healthy grocery shopping tips.
1. Never go grocery shopping
on an empty stomach.
It's obvious that all food looks better when you are hungry.
But you can make better choices if you don't shop when you are
hungry. Another benefit to this is you will spend less.
2. Select canned fruits
and tuna that are packed in water, not oil or syrup.
Anything packed in water including fruit
in its own juice is a much healthier choice.
3. Look at the labels for the words "hydrogenated" or "partially
hydrogenated".
The earlier you see them appear on the label list,
the higher the amount of unhealthy trans fatty acids the food
will contain.
4. Don't buy turkey or
chicken with the skin on it.
If you are eating healthy to lose weight, breast or white meat
is a much healthier food to eat. The skin is really all fat and
not very healthy food to eat.
5. When you select frozen
dinners, select those that are not only low in fat, but low in
sodium and cholesterol as well.
Salt makes you retain water and can increase your blood
pressure.
6. If you aren't consuming
enough dairy products or they don't agree with you, buy calcium
fortified orange juice instead.
Getting enough calcium is an important part of eating
healthy.
7. Buy whole grain breads,
cereals, and rolls.
Healthy
breads are whole wheat, pumpernickel or seven-grain. Healthy
cereal choices are All-Bran, Bran Buds, 100% Bran and Raisin
Bran.
8. You may want to give
cantaloupe a try.
With just
95 calories, half of the melon will provide more than a day's
supply of Vitamin C and cancer-fighting beta carotene.
9. Don't be tricked into
buying yogurt covered by nuts or raisins, on top because they
are normally loaded with sugar and partially hydrogenated oils.
If you are eating healthy
to lose weight, this could make the difference of you losing
weight for the week or not.
10. Buy low fat snacks
and treats, such as pretzels, ginger snaps, and angel food cake.
Make sure you can grab these
low fat snacks when you get the need to munch on something.
There are many different healthy foods you can buy at the grocery
store, and all it takes is making the right choices to put in
your cart.
Healthy grocery shopping can quickly be learned and become a
way of life with you. The reward is huge because taking weight
off becomes easy.
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About the Author
Gary Gresham is the author of "Fat
Burning Secrets." Discover simple yet powerful changes
that can have a major effect on your weight loss results. You
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