Healthy meal helps to achieve a slim figure

When was the last time you enjoyed a nice leisurely meal? Do you know that one of the best ways to maintain a healthy weight and a trim figure is to slow down and savor the food you eat? This may seem a strange idea but it works to live a healthy life. Just look at the eating of French people, they take their food in multiple course meals with creamy sauces, pure butter, desserts and full of energy drinks.

On the other side, American! they are flip side of French in their eating habits, American are use to having fast food on the run and overindulging at an all-you-can-eat buffet, more often they do not include skipping meals. One might think that staying on the go helps to burn calories, but what it actually does is to create stress, and stress is a big deterrent to maintaining a healthy weight.

But don't worry; still you can take turn-back to healthy life, all is not lost, because any habit that is learned can be unlearned. You can gain a trim healthy figure without too much effort or drastic shift of hard exercise. All you have to do is to slow down at mealtimes, begin to enjoy your food, take better care of yourself, and keep a trim healthy figure to live and enjoy happier and healthier life.

First of all you will have to require some adjustments to your daily schedule. For your first meal of the day, go for something healthy, even if it is just some fruit, milk, dairy product or nuts etc. Studies show that starting your day with a healthy mix of protein and carbohydrate boosts your metabolism and helps you burn fat throughout the day. And if you have a mid-morning or afternoon snack, keep it light and make it a bit small size if possible. Stretching it out will make it feel like more in the end.

Secondly! At mealtimes, go to eat a full balanced meal that includes foods you like, choose foods that are not loaded with preservatives and chemicals and that means stay away from prepared fast foods as much as possible, as your digestive system was designed to break down natural foods. Also eating slower and chewing you food well will help you enjoy the different tastes on your plate and make you more aware when your body is full.

Finally, don't forget to add some exercise to your daily routine as it play a major role to achieve you a slim figure and live a healthy life. But it doesn't have to be something exhausting or lengthy. Studies show that short bursts of activity throughout the day help to maintain an optimum weight. Some little suggestions include taking a short walk after lunch, parking further out in the grocery store parking lot, walking to the corner store as opposed to driving, and opting to take the stairs as opposed to the elevator whenever you can. These extra steps will boost your chance to live a happier and healthier lifestyle and to gain a trim healthy body.