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Eating healthy and nutritious can benefit your body in a good way when losing weight. While developing an eating disorder may and can cause more harm than good. I am writing about this subject because I have an insight into the subject and I too am trying to lose weight. I was struggling my whole childhood and I experienced the overweight and I have tried everything in the book to lose weight. In the process I even had an eating disorder for a while and I started to get really un-healthy because of it. So I finally got a grasp on what to do to eat healthy and how to maintain my weight in a good way. By doing it the correct way I can keep the weight off, and I feel so much healthier inside as well as out.

By eating healthy and nutritious you can lose weight, and do it the correct way. A balanced diet involves the intake of appropriate foods and drinks that supply nutrition and energy for the maintenance of body cells, tissues, and organs, also to support normal growth and development. Based on the USDA’s food pyramid it will include bread, cereal, rice, and pasta (six -11 servings a day), vegetables (Three-five), fruit (two-four), dairy (two-three), meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs and nuts (two-three), and fats, oils and sweets (you use sparingly). Portion control is a very important part you need to pay attention to. The best way to judge the right size of a portion that is correct for your body.

There are many ways to lose weight, from diet and exercise to extremes such as surgery. Diet and exercise is the healthiest way for a person to lose weight. As long as the person takes it slow and does not start abrupt diets or intense exercises. The body adapts better to slow changes in terms of diet and exercise. Having body altering surgery is not taking it slow. When weight loss surgery has been performed, it takes off months or even years of diet and exercise in one day. That kind of trauma is not healthy for the body for it...