Weight loss hints and tips

In planning a meal plan, the most important step is to make efforts to lower your intake of fat, salt and refined carbohydrates.

Some low carb diet tips:
* Understand the food labels Watch out for food labeling that boasts 'low carb' - check the real nutritional information on the reverse of the tin or packet. A good number of are only marginally less and in some instances still more than a competitors standard brand. Also, beware of 'low sugar' and 'low fat' labels - 'low sugar' does not always mean 'low carb' - often the carbs are identical.

* Replace sugar with a low carb substitute such as splenda. Recipes that call for sugar can be modified to make use of a sugar replacement like splenda instead. It is much lighter so you will need to expirement with it and it might not be perfect for everything, but it does bake up nice once you have it cracked.

Flavonoid superfoods
(inlcudes lettuce, brussels sprouts, yams & basil)

The flavonoids which exist in these fruits and vegetables are thought to have properties in fighting cancer.
Doctors investigating the nutritional effects of flavonoids think that they may well also have most other healthy benefits, including, but not limited to, anti-allergic and antioxidant properties.
The majority of these are also low in calories, so you should add them to your diet system.