How to eat healthy

Eating a stable diet means that you're taking in a variety of healthy foods at rational intervals throughout the day. it doesn't mean that you eat balanced healthy foods during the day with junk foods like pizza and ice cream at night. However, for many, when the sun goes down, so does their willpower. While they can uphold their sensible eating habits during the day, evening often signals the start of an unending food festival until bedtime.

Strange as it may seem, one of the best keys to controlling your appetite after dark is to eat more often during the day hours. Hefty evening snacks often lack a regular eating pattern – one that includes functional meals combined with healthy and nutritious snacks.

Putting the Myth to Rest we have probably been told that eating late at night is unfavorable. However, while your calorie needs are lowest during the night, there is no definite scientific evidence that the calories gulped at night are stored more efficiently than those eaten at other times.

Eating foods later in the day rather than earlier is not what leads to weight gain, what matters is your daily caloric intake as a whole. No matter when you eat, if you take in more than you need, your body stores any extra calories as fat. Reduction of evening snack habits leads to weight loss simply because fewer calories are being taken in over the course of the day.

Many people are too busy to plan meals – they may dash out the door in the morning with little more than a cup of coffee, and then try to power through the day without taking time to eat properly. It is no surprise that by the time they get home at night, they are plainly out of energy.

Others are simply eating as an emotional escape from stress or to beat boredom. We tend to reach for junk food during inactive activities such as watching television or using the computer and we then associate these high calorie foods with relaxation and keep the habit going.

Putting in the right meal and at the regular intervals during the day is one of the best resistances against nighttime nibbling. Breakfast and lunch meals should provide plenty of protein to keep your mind sharp and hunger at bay as well as some healthy carbs like fruits, veggies and whole grains to maintain blood sugar. A fruit shake is a great way to start the day otherwise, try an egg white omelet with fruit, a dish of plain nonfat yogurt with fruit, or a quick bowl of oatmeal

Try a salad with some grilled chicken or fish, or a turkey sandwich on whole grain bread with some fruit for dessert for a lunch. When energy starts to slide in the afternoon, one tactic that works is to have a substantial snack almost a "second lunch" between lunch and dinner. Some nuts or fruit are all appropriate choices.

By putting more nutritional stress on your daytime meals, it's likely you won't be nearly as hungry at night, so your dinner meal can be lighter and smaller.