Eating Your Favourite Foods While Still Losing Body Fat

A popular blunder that individuals make while attempting to lose their excess body fat is totally removing their favourite foods from their diet. But, the irony is that this move usually gives the reverse effect of what they wanted.

So, while they planned to only eat healthy foods, their cravings for those banned foods increases and it eventually leads to frequent binge eating of their favourite foods.

In a few minutes, you would understand why you are actually sabotaging your fat loss efforts if you ban your favourite foods. And you would also discover how to strike a good balance between eating clean foods and junk/fast foods.

The Reason Why Eating Your Favourite Foods Helps You With Fat Loss

The whole idea of banning foods that you like from your diet would only cause you to crave them more and it would lead to a frame of mind where you are feeling bitter about your clean eating habits because it restricts you from eating your favourite foods.

Sooner or later this combination of desire and resentment causes you default on your clean eating and go binge eating on the foods you like and this would overturn some of the progress you achieved from eating healthy foods.

A better approach is to eat your favourite foods in moderate quantities. You no longer see these foods as being banned from your diet and in its place you would begin to love your clean eating habits and you would be more likely to stick to them for the long term.

Doing it this way would allow you to enjoy your favourite foods during the time that you set aside to eat. And you would also be enthusiastic about the fact that you are eating them only in moderate quantities so you are not sabotaging your fat loss efforts and you are a lot less likely to go on binge eating spree.

How You Can Balance Eating Healthy Foods And Your Favourite Foods

The most effective way to have a good balance between eating healthy foods and your favourite foods is to implement the 80/20 rule in your diet.

Basically, 80% of your meals should be completely healthy foods (and calorie-controlled), while the other 20% of your meals would be whatever you feel like eating in any quantity.

If you look at this in a 7 day period, where you eat 3 meals a day, it means you would have 4 meals where you can eat whatever food you like and in any quantity.

But, this doesn’t mean that you should make your other meals bland. There are ways that you can make healthy versions of your favourite foods which contain more nutrients and fewer calories than the unhealthy version. This way you still get to eat delicious and healthy foods 80% of the time.

Let us say you like hamburgers, there are lots of healthy burger recipes that you can use as a replacement for the original ones from fast food restaurants.

Another example is replacing candy bars with chocolate coated fruits which would contain fewer calories and still give you the sweet taste you may be craving for.

Conclusion

Just like with other fitness and health goals, keeping balance is the main thing when it comes to fat loss. Although following a healthy diet if you want to lose your excess body, this doesn’t mean you have to avoid your favourite foods.

If you have previously used the approach of giving up the foods you like in order to lose body fat, here is a better approach that you can try and you would be able to enjoy your favourite foods without sabotaging your efforts.