Living a healthier life than you already are doesn’t have to be difficult; the changes sometimes can be somewhat easy. Most times people make drastic changes when they decide to adopt a healthier lifestyle, which makes it hard for them to stick to their plan. Nevertheless, there are simple things that can be done daily to help with your overall weight loss, sometimes its just as easy as playing a different video game.

You should consider these seven healthy food swaps to help with your overall weight loss.

#1

Eat fruit rather than fruit juice; taking a glass of juice is not as healthy as eating a whole piece of fruit, a glass of juice only contains a small squash or skin from an orange, and zero of the fiber. Lest you decide to take a glass of juice next time, opt for a piece of fruit instead because it contains less calories and more nutrient.

#2

If you do not like soda water, try some other flavour like lemon, lime or even vanilla

#3

Eat more, don’t skip meals. It is important to eat meals because if you do not make out time to eat, you’ll feel tired and run-down much later. In addition it slows your metabolism, and can cause you to overeat later.

#4

You like bread? Of course we all do… who doesn’t?! Always opt for whole wheat, make sure the first ingredient listed on the bread you’re buying is whole wheat, it should say 100 percent whole wheat or wheat flour. Multi grain doesn’t mean it is whole grain you’re eating; it just means they’re throwing additional grain into it.

#5

Morning latte could be costing you a whooping 300 calories plus a tone of sugar, so swap your latte for green tea instead because it contains zero calories and still has caffeine and in addition, speed up after you drink a cup because it has a thermogenic effect on your metabolism.

#6

The number of calories bagels contains are an equivalent of eating five slices of toast, so instead, have a piece of whole wheat toast or two. Yes we know everyone enjoys a good bagel, but truth is, the latter is more nutritional and contains smaller amount calories.

#7

Finally, they always seem to be more calories packed in a restaurant meal than a meal made by yourself, so you can try as much as you want to eat healthy at a restaurant but it won’t serve its purpose. Order a salad in a restaurant and think it’ll have fewer calories? No! That salad definitely has more calories than any salad you’d make at home. In other words, eating home is guaranteed to be great for your budget too. You can save lot of money and calories by forgoing restaurant meals, so cook, rather than eat out.

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We’re all guilty for forever being in search of a quick and easy way to lose weight. Fad diets seduce us with their promised “drastic” results and implied ease and simplicity, but they’re rarely reasonable or even healthy.

Remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and it could even be very harmful.

Tapeworm Diet

Tapeworm diet has reportedly been around since the dawn of the 20th century. Brave souls would swallow tapeworm cyst pills, so tapeworms would grow and mature inside their intestines, eating all food products until the dieter’s goal weight is reached. Tapeworms can grow pretty huge (30 feet) and can therefore cause a whole mess of other health issues, like diarrhea, vomiting, headaches and even epilepsy. This is an incredibly dangerous and unhealthy weight-loss option that could potentially be deadly, not only would this lead to serious nutrient deficiencies that can have lifelong complications, but you would regain the weight back as soon as the parasite is killed.

Hollywood Diet

Body “like a star.” The small selection of shakes and cookies for sale, on which you are to subside for 24 hours or more, will reportedly lead to a weight loss of two to nine pounds. Extreme low-calorie diets like this can be dangerous, especially when followed for more than a couple of days. This diet puts your body into starvation mode, and most of the weight loss you experience in the first few days will be water weight. Added potential side effects may include diarrhea, fatigue, constipation and nausea.

Baby Food Diet

This idea is to replace breakfast and lunch with tiny jarred rations of puréed food and then to eat a low-calorie dinner. Granted, it’s free of additives and preservatives, but this diet deprives you of the pleasures of eating real food and is not a good long-term approach to weight loss, following on that it’s much easier and more civilized to just up consumption of fruits and vegetables and decrease sodium content.

Feeding-Tube Diet

Yes, you read correctly a feeding tube. A “very low-calorie, protein- and fat-rich” solution with no carbs whatsoever is pumped through a tube the size of a strand of spaghetti that is inserted through your nose and into your stomach where it empties. Your body goes into ketosis, burning your own fat at a faster pace. This very low-calorie restricted plan is no more effective for short-term weight loss than just restricting your calorie intake of regularly consumed food. Aside from that, complications from this diet may include constipation, kidney stones, dehydration, dizziness and headaches, and, a more unhealthy relationship with food.

Lemonade Diet

The lemonade diet, has been around for a while and name-dropped by plenty of the Beyoncés of the world because it’s a ‘fast and easy’. As this miraculous elixir consists only of water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup, you’ll lose some water weight(but not for long). The likelihood is that you’ll gain all the weight back and more once you go back to eating solid food, and the problem is you may also have a harder time losing weight in the future, since such low-calorie diets cause you to lose muscle mass and decrease your metabolism.

Grapefruit Diet

Dating as far back as the 1930s, this diet still retains some level of popularity. If you eat a grapefruit before eating anything else, drink lots of water, cut out carbs and eat lean protein, you’ll burn more fat. Fans of this diet say if you do it for around 10 days, you can lose up to 10 pounds. It’s been suggested that eating grapefruit can help to slim the waistline and lower body weight, most likely due to the diuretic properties of grapefruit helping to shed water weight. In addition, the fruit makes a great high-volume, low-calorie option, helping to keep you full and encouraging less total calorie intake during the day.