What are good foods to eat when dieting?
Jun 08, 2010 in
Health FAQs
I know grapefruit is a really good thing to eat when you’re on a diet, but what other foods are good? Not just fruits or vegetables in general, but specifically. Thanks!
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5 comments
Claire on June 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm
When dieting people often make the mistake of opting for "fat free" or "low fat" options. This isn’t always the best option because these foods often contain more sugar and salt to compensate for the lack of fat. I am going to give you a few dietary tips that I swear by. As soon as I made these changes in my diet I lost a stone.
1) Drink plenty of water, the less water you drink the more your body will store. If your body is dehydrated and stores water you will weigh more.
2) Don’t opt for fat free choices in foods. Ideally you should be eating food that is as natural as possible. When looking at a food label the first ingredient on the list is always the one that is in highest quantity. So if the first ingredient is sugar or salt etc then you know it isnt going to be great.
3)When adding sauces to foods try and make your own. For a simple bolognaise sauce just use passata and some herbs. Its much much healthier than a tinned or jar of sauce. Sweet and sour-passata and a bit of pineapple etc.
4)Dont add salt to anything and opt for low salt foods. Dont forget that if a product only shows "sodium content" you have to times the sodium by 2.5 to get the amount of salt that is in the food. The sodium often seems quite low but when you do the maths it turns out to be alot of salt. Salt makes us retain water which in turn makes us heavier.
5) Do atleast 30 minutes exercise per day.
6) Ditch the scales and use a tape measure. When you exercise you build muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. A tape measure is a mroe accurate way of deciding whether you have lost weight.
7) Eat atleast 5 portions of fruit and veg per day. Frozen, tinned or fresh-its all great. (if you are going to buy tinned fruit buy fruit in juice rather than syrup).
I eat alot of salads with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Its a great dressing with nothing added really. I also am vegetarian and when i stopped eating meat 5 years ago i lost weight. Tofu is a great alternative for protein and it really fills you up.
jessiec_818 on June 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm
anything with a lot of water such as low calorie soup. the water will help fill you up so you aren’t hungry later.
Questionable on June 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm
well maybe a lean chicken salad, scrambled eggs, yogurt…
idk. something like that
Ally P on June 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Hi!
Reading about the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet makes you wonder if they might not be on to something. The way the diet works is different than other fad diets that involve cutting out certain types of food like low carbohydrates, low fat or low calorie. Instead it uses calorie shifting foods that you would normally eat, increases the number of times you eat, and changes when you eat certain things for fast fat loss.
What is Calorie Shifting?
The way calorie shifting works involves tricking the fat hormones that are sent out by the brain. Every time you eat something, your brain sends out fat storing and fat burning hormones, depending on what the item is.
The idea is to send more fat burning than fat storing hormones, so that the body does not hold onto the fat for later use. If you keep confusing the metabolism, you will see fast fat loss, as much as 9 pounds in 11 days, that is the first weightloss principle of Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet.
How Does The Metabolism Control Weightloss?
This scientific weight control fact about the metabolism and how it works stems from our ancestry as cavemen, when there were famine periods between hunts. The body would store and hold onto fat for survival. The metabolism has not evolved from this self-defense tactic and doesn’t realize we can just run to the grocery store and get whatever we want.
On restrictive diets, weightloss can plateau when the metabolism thinks it is experiencing a famine period, and it will only burn what is taken in. Even on some of the popular low carbohydrate diets, it is advised to eat pizza for two days when your weight plateaus to get the metabolism going.
Why Do Some Weightloss Diets Leave You With No Energy?
The only problem with many of these restrictive weightloss diets is the metabolism goes back to only burning what you take in and many people complain about being tired and worn down, when it is mainly the metabolism storing up the energy for later.
By eating healthy, nutritious foods that are fat burning, the metabolism burns as much energy as you need. Many people on restrictive weightloss diets will regain the weight when they go back to eating normal foods.
What Is The Best Diet For Weightloss?
The best weight control diet allows you to eat the foods that you would normally eat, have in your refrigerator and cabinets. By timing when you eat certain foods, how many times a day you eat them, and balancing the types of food, your metabolism will burn what you take in and then some, because it knows you will be feeding it again shortly, instead of starving.
Prepackaged fat loss products and frozen dinners are not something you can live on the rest of your live. You need to understand the basics of natural weight control, and Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet uses the fundamental principles of controlling the metabolism with calorie shifting normal foods you eat every day.
Check my source, it might help. It’s a diet that works. Good luck!
Beverly on June 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm
well maybe you should always drink lot’s of water,always make sure you eat breakfast(a light one).Don’t snack before lunch, and during your lunch try to eat something fruity.Eat vegetable for your dinner. breakfast:a cup of milk(soya milk) and a tomato sandwich with no additional creme.neither peanut better or any other. lunch:sometimes you should skip lunch though.But when you do eat lunch,take fruit like grapes and just an apple with lots of water. dinner:vegetable salad,lots of tomatos on it.if there a means where you like to eat chicken, eat the baked, that has no skin. preferbly made it yourself. please do not eat anything esle when it pass 6 o’clock, not even a low fat snack. well have a fun deiting.It’s good to look good.bye.REMEMBER LOT’S OF WATER.
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