Healthy Eating Habits: How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

Achieving an ideal weight is a big accomplishment in itself. It is joyous to live healthfully, knowing that you look, feel, and are at your very best.

Yet, many of us triumph at weight loss only to win it all back plus more. It’s that same 10 or plus pounds that keep coming back to us, and we just don’t seem to reach the point of no return.

Weight Gain and Regain – What Triggers it?

Stress

Uncontrollable stress factors can crop up and sometimes all at once, making it easy to become overwhelmed and lose motivation.

Ease

It's easier to eat whatever is at hand, like sharing a pizza with your co-workers or joining in on what family or friends are eating. Convenience foods sound inviting, but it’s easier to overeat.

Shifting Gears

Did well, lost weight, changed habits. Went on vacation, ate well, oh boy. It’s tough getting back on track.

Eating Out & Portion Control

With plenty of time constraints, there’s little time for cooking. Consider that 83% of millennials work more than 40-hour weeks and eat out or carry out three times as often as baby boomers. Think about portion control while eating out:

Addiction

You may have done all the right things to achieve your weight loss goals, only to re-introduce the wrong foods back into the diet, causing intense cravings.

Resistance

At certain times, a negative mindset is all it takes for a return to old habits, and it seems easier to just give up. Being aware of this can bring on an “Aha” moment when you need it most.

Does any of this sound familiar?

The tried-and-true method to keep off unwanted weight is to embrace healthy eating habits joyfully! Change your mind, and you change your life.

This is where the Almased 4-Phase Figure Plan can help.

In the first phase of the plan, you learn how to lose weight fast. It’s easy to stay motivated when belly fat melts away so quickly. Almased shakes keep you nutritionally satisfied and jump starts metabolism as it wipes out hunger pangs, making it much easier to keep moving forward.

During the next 3 phases of the Almased Figure Plan, you’ll cut back on the Almased shakes as you gradually increase your intake of healthy solid foods. You continue to lose weight but at a slower pace.

Note: Almased is naturally made from non-GMO soy, yogurt, and raw honey, fermented together to work wonders. There are no additives, fillers or stimulants; it's gluten-free and diabetic friendly with a low glycemic index. You can feel good about using Almased!

To keep weight off, keep Almased in your life.

Transitioning through the Almased 4-Phase Figure Plan quickly slims you down and more importantly helps condition your body to welcome new and better-eating habits. When you feel vibrantly energized, you want to stick with it.

As you continue to establish new norms, focus more on eating right, rather than eating less.

 Healthy Snacks

The good news from nutritionist Jamie Luu, RDN, LDN is that you shouldn't go hungry. Healthy snacks are allowed, even while dieting to lose weight. Try to keep most snacks between 100-150 calories.

• Almonds – about 19 almonds (100 calories)
• Popcorn, air-popped – 3 cups (93 calories)
• Edamame – 1-1/2 cup (95 calories)
• Boiled Eggs – 2 large whole eggs (146 calories)
• Chickpeas – about 3 Tbsp (138 calories)
• Rice Cake - 1 (35 calories)
• Rice Cake - 1 with 1 Tbsp. peanut butter (125 calories)
• Yogurt - ½ cup (100 calories)
• Olives - 10 (60 calories)
• Gala Apple - 1 medium (80 calories)
• Banana - 1 (105 calories)
• Carrot Sticks - 14 (70 calories)
• Carrot Sticks - 14 with 2 Tbsp. hummus (120 calories)
• Almased Shake - 4 oz. made with almond milk and 1 tsp olive oil (145 calories)

The Almased shake is a healthy meal replacement, but it also makes a great snack. Almased supports healthy blood sugar and thyroid function, as well as healthy leptin and ghrelin levels (satiety hormones), the reason you feel full and satisfied longer.

Almased displays over 50 healthy recipes for smoothies and shakes that will knock your socks off. Just go lightly on fruits during the weight loss phases.

Healthy Dinner Ideas

The best diet plan would cultivate healthy lifelong changes that you want to keep. Don’t return to old eating habits after weight loss is achieved.

Guidelines for healthy dinner recipes promote the consumption of vegetables, fruits, fatty fish, lean protein, healthy oils, whole grains, and low-fat dairy.

Favor higher fiber when making food choices as it naturally satisfies and curbs appetite while giving great digestive benefits.

(Chia seed puddings are perfect!)

When consuming foods of high-calorie density, it is too easy to overeat before feeling full or satisfied - think potato chips.

Avoid added sugars, fake sugars, deep-fried and processed food with all those questionable additives. (Yuk)

 There are some meal recipes on Almased's website, and every one of them is delicious and good for weight maintenance. From beef, pork and poultry to fish and vegetarian dishes, select your favorites and enjoy!

Weight Loss Program

 As you can see, there’s more to weight loss foods than eating celery sticks. Almased may be your fastest way to lose weight and keep it off.

What Makes the Almased Weight Loss Phenomenon Successful?

Years of international research back up the science behind Almased and recent studies from the University of Alberta show that basal metabolic rate increases after the first day of drinking Almased and stays up when it is consumed daily.

Even more inspiring are the true-life experiences of Almased consumers. Success story Sondra W. lost 45 pounds and kept it off with Almased.

“After a period of using Almased, I noticed that my sweet cravings went down, and I no longer could eat as much as I use to - simply because now it does not take much to help me feel full and satisfied. Almased helped reduce my appetite.

"My hair has gotten thicker, and my nails have gotten stronger. I look younger than I did a year ago – all because of good nutrition. I am 45 pounds lighter and have kept it off.” - Sondra W.