Weight loss seekers often obsess about the calorie count, fat count, or carbohydrate count of their food. Sometimes the best diets are not always ‘the best’. Proteins are often overlooked. Weight loss diets are a perennial favorite topic for most of us. Every day there is a new one that promises you will shed pounds overnight.

While diets do work, exercise is also key. So, my suggestion is before spending money on all those diets is to talk to yourself really if you are willing to stick to a plan, and go thru it if you want to really lose 10 pounds. Exercise should be part of your diet.

Eating habits are no exception. If one engages in the activity of snacking while watching television, one reinforces that habit until finally it became a part of you. Stay away from trans fats -eating even 1 gram of trans fats per day could harm your heart. One of the few supplements I use is fish oil (that I like to call, ‘fish juice’). Effective ways to lose weight, require you eat slowly, appreciate the way food tastes, smells and looks. Don’t get distracted while eating.

Eating vegetables reduces your chances of heart disease, cancer, blindness and stroke later in life. So, make a concerted effort to introduce some veggies into your diet, the more the better. Eat the egg whites instead of the yolks. The best diets for high cholesterol incorporate lowfat and nonfat dairy products. Nutritious food means low carbohydrates and fat but maintain medium to high protein intake. These are low Glycemic Index foods that help to burn fat and maintain high metabolism in your body.