With the immense variety of weight reduction tips available online and offline there is endless amounts of contradicting information out there. No wonder most people are too puzzled to even take action. In spite of this, weight loss does not need to be hard. Just follow the eight tips for quick weight loss you’ll be on your way to a thinner and healthier body.
1. Keep it simple. There is no need to cook fancy dishes for losing weight, take pills, count your calories, or follow a complex meal plan. Just keep it simple, and and you cannot go wrong. Base your diet on fresh, raw plant foods – fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens, while limiting or cutting out everything else.
2. Eat the salad as your main course: enjoy it first at lunch and dinner, and even breakfast. We usually tend to eat more of whatever we eat first because we are the hungriest, and the good news you can eat as much salad as you like, no need to control your portions here. Raw foods have high transit times, they fill you up and promote weight loss. Just bear in mind that a salad should incorporate a great amount of greens and raw vegetables and fruits. Potato salad or tuna salad, and other so-called “salad” dishes, soaked in mayo and fatty dressings, don’t count. Successful, long-term weight control and health is linked to high consumption of raw greens, vegetables and fruits.
3. Blend your salad in a food processor and drink it! For many people, cutting up and chewing all these green leafs and vegetables is tiring, tedious, and just too time consuming. So my suggestion is to just toss them into your blender with some juicy tomatoes, red peppers, celery, a slice of avocado, and drink or eat your salad like a soup. Add a handful of fresh herbs (my favorites are basil, cilantro, parsley, or dill), and a little bit of sweetener – a small amount of honey, or some sweet fruit – to make your salad even more delicious.
4. This recommendation may astonish you: eat as much fruit as you like. It’s a common misconception that fruits should be avoided when dieting, because they contain sugars. Nothing could be further from the truth! Fruits are super-healthy and can be eaten even on a strict diet. Eating lots of fresh fruit is satisfying and filling, so eat as many fruits as you like throughout the day. Although fruits have lots of sugar and high caloric content when compared to greens and veggies, they are very healthy and should not be avoided, even if you are trying to lose weight. They can be eaten as snack foods or to replace unhealthy deserts. You can blend your fruits with greens, add some water, and you will have a yummy green shake that will satisfy your desires for desserts and other unhealthy snacks.
5. Remember to consume a wide variety of fresh vegetables and leafy greens. There are a variety of ingredients that you can use to make super-tasty salads, for example lettuce (bib, green ice, arugula, iceberg), celery, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, sweet red peppers, cucumbers, raw peas, onions, radishes, carrots, beets, cabbage, and all kinds of sprouts. Still more vegetables can be eaten cooked – you can steam them or make into a delectable vegetable soup.
6. Be cautious about starchy vegetables and grains. For speediest fat loss, limit cooked, high-starch grains and vegetables to one cup per day. Consider any vegetable that is not green to be a high-starch vegetable (with the exception of eggplant, peppers, onions, and mushrooms). Fill up on the raw vegetables and steamed green vegetables first. However, make the most of your starch consumption from starchy vegetables – such as acorn squash, turnips, parsnips, cooked carrots, corn, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, and so on – rather than starchy grains. Bread, pasta, or white rice – and other refined grains – should be even more limited. Decreasing the portion size of rice, potato, and other cooked starchy vegetables to one serving is not essential for everybody to slim down, only for people whose metabolism makes it difficult to experience weightloss. Most individuals can still reach their ideal body weight by reducing refined starches only, such as white bread and pasta.
7. If you wish, you may eat legumes on a daily basis. They move through the digestive tract slowly, which helps stabilize your glucose levels and are very satisfying. For instance, greens and beans are all high-nutrient, high fiber, low calorie main dishes. Toss a cup of beans into your salad, or enjoy some bean soup. Eating soup helps you reduce your appetite by filling your stomach.
8. Restrict animal and milk products. To shed weight quickly, avoid animal products entirely, or limit it to just a little lean fish, such as flounder or sole, once or twice a week, and an egg white omelet once a week.
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