Eating the right food to lose weight is one thing but just as important is eating the right food to keep you healthy. Sure you'll feel fitter when you lose weight but that doesn't mean you are healthy or that your body is functioning properly.
We live in the age of processed food which is not good for you. Nearly everything you see in a food store nowadays is processed stuff. The makers have played around with the original so much and added so many preservatives, flavours, artificial tastes and colourings to it that it's a wonder it can be classified as food. That includes those frozen and takeaway meals too
Sometimes I think food manufacturers are more occupied with the colourful packaging than the contents. After all, they're in it for the money. But we should eat to be healthy. No matter how much you might like it, the processed stuff is not good for you. You need to think fresh food - fresh meat, vegetables and fruit. It's still around. You can still buy it. And it's the real thing. People have been living on it since civilisation began.
You should have serves of veggies and fruit every day. You don't have to eat meat and if you do you don't need a lot of it. What is really important is getting plenty of fibre in your diet. Fibre is really important because one of it's benefits is to keep you regular on the toilet.
Not having enough fibre can encourage nasties like constipation, piles – even cancer. You don't want to walk down that road. So whether you're on a diet or not eat good food, dine on the real thing and not some man-made concoction that's been processed to the point where it resembles plastic. And enjoy the smells of fresh food, like the aroma of a mango or a peach, or the taste bud tantalising smell of roast meat. The processed stuff doesn't usually smell and if it does it's not natural.
Imagine, if everybody cut right down on processed foods how many plastic bags and containers that would save to help the environment. And how the number of illnesses on the planet like piles would reduce.