Discovering the concept of healthy eating for weight loss has many more bonuses. The main one is improvement in general health. You can't separate your overall health from your healthy weight. When you truly work at the heart of a problem, the whole becomes balanced.

Healthy eating is natural healing. Natural healing is about keeping your whole person in perfect balance. Keeping you well. And natural healing is not only supremely safe, it is also highly effective. The 'impossible' no-catch is that natural healing is inexpensive. So much so, you may even save on your current weekly expenditure.

Of course healthy eating is safe, otherwise it wouldn't be healthy. The problem arises when different, often conflicting, ideas of what is healthy confuse you. The best way to cut through that is to work out what is naturally healthy and what is fabricated 'healthy' for corporate greed. In other words, who benefits from your choice and by how much?

Healthy eating is effective because it is how your body evolved. If you eat a diet as close as is possible and practical to that of your ancestors, you can expect to enjoy the benefits they enjoyed - robust health, stamina, ability to cope well with the elements, natural weight and so forth.

Healthy eating is inexpensive, because many of the unhealthy foods that you need to let go, are the most expensive ones.

You don't need to change much to make a dramatic difference to your life.

The first step in your new healthy eating for weight loss programme is to want both - both weight loss and good health. There is a Chinese proverb that goes something like this "When you are sick of sickness, you are no longer sick". That's when you start to take action. Are you sick of sickness yet? Are you sick enough of being over weight, yet? Sick enough to take action?

The second step is to understand that you, and you alone, are responsible for this. You can be lured into empty promises that assure you of rapid weight loss, but if this ultimately makes you unhealthy, is it worth it? So you need to embrace both ideas. Look at diet plans that are, above all, healthy.

The third step is to start now. If not now, when?

Healthy eating for weight loss offers a permanent change in your life for the better. It's time to enjoy life, to have the weight and figure you have only dreamed about. It's time to take control of your own health.

Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant specialising in diet-for-health and homeopathy. She treats both people and animals within these two disciplines. She also coaches people both on- and off-line, on these subjects. For more information, visit: Healthy Eating For Weight Loss

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Weight loss needs to be all about healthy eating and should have nothing to do with counting calories. Restricting your calorie intake in an effort to lose weight is one of those myths based on a complete lack of understanding of the underlying problem.

This misunderstanding starts by judging people who are overweight or obese. The feeling is that these people simply eat too much. That they are greedy. While this may be the case in a very few individuals, it is NOT true in most people.

Let's examine the problems with a calorie controlled diet.

For a start, it can be complicated. While you are trying to juggle work, family demands, household chores, etc trying to remember which food contains what calories is likely to be low on your list of priorities.

Secondly, and more importantly, calories have nothing to do with healthy food. In a calorie controlled diet, you can end up eating very unhealthy foods, but remain within your target. This means your health will deteriorate over time. Not the best way to lose weight.

You are likely to be hungry all the time, on a calorie controlled diet. This, in itself, shows how unhealthy the diets really are. Your hunger may not just be because you are not eating enough food based on your activity, your body type, your metabolic rate and other important factors to consider, that rarely are considered.

Your hunger is much more likely to be because your body is not getting the quality nutrients from your food. If your body is nutrient deficient, you will be virtually hungry all the time. And unhealthy. This is the key to your excess weight. Few dieticians or weight loss programme creators understand this.

On the other hand, if you forget all about calories, even food portions, but instead use a programme which has its foundation in quality health improvement, then you can see permanent improvements.

Permanent weight loss can only come about when you look at the whole of you and what your body needs to function properly and to be healthy. Healthy eating for weight loss gives you proper nutrition, without limit, whenever you need it. The more you eat, the more weight drops off. The very opposite of what you have been led to believe.

Learn to recognise that both weight loss and good health is more about nutrition, about eating quality healthy foods, than it ever is about calories.

Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant specialising in diet-for-health and homeopathy. She treats both people and animals within these two disciplines. She also coaches people both on- and off-line, on these subjects. For more information, visit: Healthy Eating For Weight Loss

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