Your health and whether or not you are overweight depend heavily upon how you eat. In fact, your diet is even more important to your weight maintenance than exercise. But what foods should you be eating to help you stay slender while also not compromising your health by causing you to under-eat and becoming weak? There are some healthy foods you can eat to get your weight under control and keep it that way and they taste great!
1) Apples. Apples are abundant with pectin, which lowers the bad cholesterol levels in your blood and keeps your glucose levels balanced. Apples really are one of the superfoods of the world. Another reason apples help you lose weight and maintain healthy weight is that they provide you with plenty of dietary fiber that cleans you out. And still another reason is that eating them instead of candy satisfies your craving for something sweet without filling you with empty calories from refined sugars.
2) Black beans. Beans are good, but black beans are the super-bean for losing weight. They are loaded with fiber like apples are. They are also so high in protein that they count as a meat as well as a bean! When you get plenty of protein in your diet you feel energized and satisfied without needing to resort to eating empty sugars or fatty foods to feel satiated. Furthermore, high protein foods fuel your exercise program and feed your muscles–two more ways of burning away unwanted fat pounds.
3) Grass fed beef. Yes, beef is a food that helps you lose weight–as long as it’s not loaded up with toxins and corn by-products. Grass fed beef is a complete protein, meaning you get all of the essential amino acids that you need when you eat it. Grass fed beef also contains high amounts of creatine, which is the best muscle-building chemical to be found. Again, all this protein gives you energy, builds muscle (which burns off calories way faster than fat tissue does), and leaves you feeling satisfied without needing to resort to eating sugars and saturated fats.
4) Salmon. Salmon is super-rich in Omega-3 fatty acids. A great deal of the problem of excess weight today in the US has to do not with too much fat per se, but with a terrible imbalance of the types of fats in the typical person’s diet. Omega-3 fatty acids should account for about one-third of a person’s fat intake. Instead, it’s usually more like 1/10th ! Eating salmon just twice per week can increase your energy levels and, yes, enhance your mental clarity.
5) Sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes help reduce inflammation in the body. Besides being the root cause of all cancer, inflammation also causes you to put on weight as the body creates fat stores around the inflamed tissues to try to protect them.
You have probably heard of other amazing weight-reduction and weight-control foods. Add the five listed here to that list.