Quick Guide To Food For Weight Loss

By Nea Brown


The internet is packed with all kinds of information and hype surrounding miracle diets, slimming pills and short cuts to getting in shape. While much of this is useful, a fair slice of it is misinformation and delivered by people with a product to sell. In order to make sure you don't get duped by an overzealous marketer's views on a fad product, it's best to seek independent advice on the best food for weight loss.

Best then to stick to facts and figures regarding the foods which will bring down your weight and this guide can help. Here presented are some of the most useful foods for tipping the scales in your favor. It is going to be up to you how you try to build your diet around them but adding them to your regular food intake is always advisable for slimmers.

Top of the list are eggs. Eggs are a terrific slimmer because they are packed with protein and leave you feeling full for a long time. The traditional carb heavy breakfast foods like toast, bagels or cereal will leave you hungry for a snack by 11.30 but a less fattening plate of scrambled egg will energize you until lunch time.

Most breaks we take during the day are either complemented by tea or coffee. Switching to green tea is a great option to choose instead as it speeds the rate of your metabolism, allowing you to convert food to energy much quicker. Also the complex cocktail of vitamins, antioxidants and other good stuff in a cup of green tea lowers your body's cholesterol.

The giant sandwich which you wolf down at lunch time is likely to be another reason why you have trouble dropping weight. The best alternative to this carb packed fistful is good old soup. A bowl of soup will tell your brain that you are full and, if it is made from fresh ingredients, should be packed with lots of vitamins too.

If you're the kind of person who likes to sprinkle sugar on their snacks, the idea of switching cold turkey to plain, unsweetened treats might seem like a sad one indeed. Here is where cinnamon comes in handy. When you've just eaten a meal, your insulin spikes which is why you often find yourself hankering for something sweet to help it go down. Cinnamon helps control this urge and is much less fattening than sugar.

Though there is no argument that nuts are fattening, they are still great for getting slim. If you regularly snack on chips or cookies between meals, switching to nuts will help lower your weight. Nuts are far less fattening than most other snack foods.

The most obvious of all the slimming foods is, of course, fruit and certainly adding more to your diet will help to lower your weight. Pears are probably the current champion of all the fruity slimmers - they're packed with fiber and really fill you up. Apples are the silver medalist and grapefruits are not far behind.

Perhaps the thing to keep most in mind when you start searching for food for weight loss is that losing weight is not the only goal of rearranging your diet. Remember to stay healthy. Losing pounds is no good if you are sapped of energy all the time as a result.




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