Foods To Help You Burn Fat And Keep It Off
Fried foods should be avoided like the plague and even when they are not oily on the outside there is still oil hidden inside the food.
Avoid chocolate. Chocolates should not be a part of your diet. So do not indulge too much in them due to their high sugar content.
Do not skip meals. The worst things you can do while watching you diet is skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need to have at least four regular meals every day.
A vegetarian diet is low in fat and is very healthy for you. If you cannot totally avoid meat at least minimize the consumption of it.
In order to start the day with more energy it is important to eat breakfast within 1 hour of waking up. It does not have to be a huge meal so do not wait until you are starving.
Avoid sweet sugary foods. Sugar has a lot of calories and needs to be avoided as much as possible. The more you eat sugar the more you have to workout to burn it off.
Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins in them. And canned vegetables too are processed and are not nearly half as good as fresh vegetables.
Variety in what you eat is important so choose a variety of foods from each food group each day.
Eat 5 to 6 small meals a day instead of three large meals. It is an excellent way of having smaller quantities of food.
Try to have food at fixed times of the day. You can stretch these times by half an hour, but anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern, the result will either be a loss of appetite or that famished feeling which will make you stuff yourself.
Eat only when you are hungry. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever we see food. Whenever you are offered something to eat do not decline it completely just eat less of it.
Snack on vegetables if you must. You might get the pangs of hunger in between meals. It is something that you can very well control.
Never eat more than 1 egg a day. Eggs are not such a bright idea. It would be best to reduce your intake of eggs to maybe three in a week. But for those of you die hard egg fans, you may have up to one egg a day but nothing more than that.
Avoid drinking alcohol and beer as they can be fattening as well as reduce your will power to maintain your diet.
Choose white meat rather than red which includes fish and fowl, is better than red meat, which includes beef and pork for those trying to lose weight.
Avoid sugar sweetened drinks and foods as much as possible and if you must then repalce them with sugar substitutes as they still taste sweet but without the calories like sugar has.
Watch your fat intake. Each fat gram contains 9 calories so by reading the total calories on a food and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which should in no way exceed 30% of the food.
Try to eat uncooked fresh vegetables more than cooked or canned. If you must cook them then steam them rather tan boiling as boiling takes away more than half of the nutrients in the veggies.
Dry wine is better than sweet wine. Sweet wines naturally contain a lot of sugar. But on the other hand, in dry wines most of this sugar has been fermented away so from the weight point of view dry wines are better than sweet wines.
Develop a habit of chewing all food including liquid food and soft foods like sweets, ice creams at least 15 to 20 times. This is essential to add saliva to the food, as it is only in the saliva that sugar is digested.
Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are plenty of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in the market so why not choose wisely.
In order to lower your oil intake you can fry using a non stick (teflon) frying pan, that way you do not have to use any oil or at least a lot less.
Keith Junor writes a blog with great tips on fat loss, wellness and longevity at www.behealthyandslim.com Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service
