The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating recommends 1/2 a bar or 25g of chocolate is equal to a serve of a discretionary food.This is backed by extensive scientific evidence, and we as dietitians or soon-to-be-dietitians are constantly reminding people thats its ok to have these foods sometimes as part of an overall healthy diet. However, for the majority of us it can be difficult stopping at 1.3 tim-tams. A well balanced healthy diet is often misinterpreted for being the perfect diet. Theres no such thing a perfect diet because measuring out the exact weight of foods we need is an impossible task for each day and restricting yourself to 1.3 tim tams once a week can be just as difficult. Trusting your body and eating according to your body signals usually results in being able to choose healthier options more often and not-so-healthy options less often. It may make following the Australian GUIDE to Healthy Eating a lot easier in the long term when your not feeling restricted. It also means that you may eat more on some days than others. Just remember, one day of eating differently to your usual is not going to cause you harm, if your eating a healthy varied diet overall. Check out the article below for tips on how to become more in-tune with your body signals and to find out the how many tim tams is the perfect number. bodypositiveaustralia.au/2014/08/how-many-tim-tams-is-the-perfect-number/ -Seema, VIC
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:00:00 +0000