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Choosing Healthy Foods to Lose Weight

To succeed in losing weight we must be willing to learn a new lifestyle and change our old ones.  Habits are formed throughout our lives that are difficult to overcome. Many believe that choosing healthy foods to eat to lose weight is all they have to do. Often when we are young we do not have a weight problem, but many times as the years go by – the pounds go on. To be successful in losing weight it is important to make a decision to substitute the unhealthy for the healthy and it is just as important to know the difference between the two.

We have a tendency to eat the same foods regularly. Over and over we will often choose the same foods because these are the foods we prefer. First, it is wise to determine discover how many calories are in the foods we eat regularly. Then it is important to find ways of getting the same taste with less calories. Salads are one of the best weight loss foods available. However, if the salad is loaded with mayonnaise laced dressing or other dressing containing huge amounts of fat, the benefit of eating a salad to help maintain or lose weight is lost. There are many salad toppings available the do not contain nearly as much fat and yet taste wonderful. Search for new things that taste good and are low fat and then concentrate on changing a lifetime of eating habits.

As important as protein is to our daily diet there is no reason to stop eating it just because we have never taken the time to choose meats with less fat. Skinless chicken and turkey, leaner red meat, and one percent milk in place of whole milk will reduce caloric intake tremendously. Also, we do not necessarily have to eat meat to get the daily requirement of protein in our diet. Healthy substitutions include eggs and various legumes. After you acquire a taste for them, not only will you lose weight, you will not want to go back to the unhealthier way of eating.

Most fruits and vegetables are loaded with fiber, high in volume, packed with nutrients and are practically fat free. If you have certain fruits or vegetables you prefer to eat, fill up on them. You can stop hunger signals and curb appetite with these healthy foods you will eat less of the fat containing foods. Choose all the fruits and vegetables you can eat when you are dieting.

There are many factors which contribute to success in losing weight. Choosing healthy foods to lose weight is very important but it is only part of the process. Learning how to eat and establishing an exercise program will intensify your diet plan. Many believe that choosing healthy foods to lose weight is all it will take but remaining determined to change old traditions will be as important as anything you can do.

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Fat burning foods for women

It’s the time of year when fitness participation among women takes a bit of a nosedive.  The New Years’ resolutions usually worn off by now, and summer and bikini weather are still too far away to overcome the exercise dread that many women feel.  Also, because there’s less daylight, we tend to  just have less energy than we do during other times of the year.  But our cellulite doesn’t care about the amount of daylight, so it’s helpful to pay a little bit of attention to your diet even if you’re not training for the Iron Woman triathlon just yet.

There is quite an abundance of weight loss tips and diets that work running around in the fitness, health, wellness, and weight loss world.  There are many diets (for our purposes, we will define “diet” here as a short-term change in your normal eating habits to produce a weight loss result) that will help you lose a bit of weight, at least for a short while.  People have put together all sorts of programs to help you control your body weight and body fat percentage.

But for how long?  If you don’t enjoy life while you’re dieting, I guarantee you won’t be on your diet for long.  It’s just our nature.  We may agree to suffer, but only if we know somewhere in the back of our minds that it will be temporary.  But lasting body mass control and healthy living depends on developing lasting, positive lifestyle habits.

Here’s where fat burning foods for women come in.  As the name suggests, fat burning foods help set up the metabolic conditions for your body to use fat for fuel, rather than sugars.  The result is that you don’t store fat at nearly the same rate as in the reverse condition.

The fat burning food recipe is simply this:  eat meats and vegetables, seeds and nuts, some fruits, very little starch (bread, rice, cereal, potatoes), and no sugar.  While it may sound difficult, it turns out that natural, healthy, fat burning foods are delicious without all the added crap.

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An Easy List of Fat Burning Foods

It sounds like something right out of Hollywood.  Imagine a hero slashing his way through dangerous, enemy-infested archaeological relics in search of the holy grail of modern weight loss science and lore: the mysterious and powerful “list of fat burning foods” that will miraculously solve America’s epidemic obesity problem.

It really doesn’t have to be as dramatic as all that, as fun as the idea might sound.  Fat burning foods are actually currently available in every grocery store in the United States.  Unfortunately, most shoppers don’t spend much money on them.  Instead, they go after processed foods, over-processed carbohydrates (like breads and pastas), piles of sugar, and corn syrup-laden “energy” drink concoctions.  The result is that collectively, our hind quarters look far more bovine or pachyderm than human these days, and the obesity epidemic is starting to get way out of control.

Lots of people are afraid to even try diets that work.  They’re afraid it might entail months of suffering through cardboard-like fiber snacks, strange potions, and gag-inducing “super foods.”  The biggest fear is that they won’t enjoy what they’re eating, they’ll only stay on their new “diet” for a few weeks or months, and then fall right back into their old flabby ways.

I had much the same fear a little bit over four years ago, when I first set off on my quest to lose 42 pounds. Happily, I discovered that clean eating and fat burning foods are actually delicious.  I took all the weight off in a little over seven months, and I have kept it off since then.  I would never have succeeded if I didn’t enjoy the taste, texture, and consistency of the foods that I ate, regardless of how much benefit they were giving to my body.

What’s the list of fat burning foods I used?  Be prepared to be surprised, because it’s a very simple prescription:  eat meats (if your politics permit), vegetables, nuts, seeds, and some fruits.  Eat starches (breads, potatoes, pasta, rice) only very sparingly, and avoid sugars altogether.

It really is that easy!