10 Foods That Can Help You Lose Weight

Some foods that have a high amount of fibre, when included in your diet can help you lose weight. These foods take a lot of time to digest and hence, it is likely that you will eat very less. In addition to that, they have very less calories per gram. This will help you in not just maintaining your weight but also in losing weight if you exclude any other fat containing foods in your diet along with physical exercise. 10 such foods are listed out for you.

Salads with low fat dressing

Make sure you eat salad for one meal. Include low calorific vegetables like cabbage, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, capsicum and carrot in your salad. Also, try to make the dressing low fat by decorating them with low fat foods like beans or croutons instead.

Scrambled whites

Scrambled whites of eggs can be included as a part of your meal as they are low in calories (244 calories in 54 gms) and high in dietary protein. Make sure that the yellow part of the egg is excluded as it is high in cholesterol and fats.

Mashed potatoes

Potatoes when boiled and mashed are good if you are trying to lose weight as they are high in energy and low in calories. Seasoning the mashed potatoes with pepper and lime juice makes it tastier. Each potato has about 130 calories and very less fat. As it is highly energetic, you can make it one of your meals.

Cereal

Cereal when eaten with low fat milk can make for a high calorie , low fat food that is filling. A cup of cereal usually has 244 calories so, it is highly energetic. Usually, it is eaten for breakfast, but you can also eat it for your dinner or lunch at times.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are high protein foods with low calories. A cup of mushrooms has as less as 55 calories even when cooked. You can replace meat with mushrooms as they are found out to be as filling and satisfying as beef  for most people.

While these foods make for a low calorific meal, try to replace your high fat snacks like potato chips or other fried foods with the following low fat snacks.

Grapes

Grapes are high energy foods that have no fat. Including grapes in between your meals can help you avoid over eating for your lunch and dinner. It is known that 100gms of grapes have just 70 calories. Freezing them makes them  a dessert option for you by helping you cut down on a lot of calories that you could gain by eating fat filled desserts.

Dry fruits

Include dry fruits like almonds , dates and raisins for your snack attack as they are not only high energy and low fat but also contain many useful nutrients like vitamin A , vitamin C and calcium that can be highly beneficial to us.

Apples

Apples make a great snack if you are looking for something that is low in calories as apples are known to help in weight loss with a high quantity of fibre in them ( 4gms per apple). With such high quantity of fibre in them they take a lot of energy and time just to get digested making the 95 calories that it has negotiable. Thus, they can be highly filling, energy-giving and low fat at the same time.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are known for not only being rich in anti oxidants but also for helping in weight loss as they are known to remove water from the body and also in boosting the metabolism. Also, it is known that the digestive system spends more calories in digesting a tomato than the body gains by eating a tomato. So when you are hungry in between your meals, eat a raw tomato instead of all the high fat foods.

Green tea

Drinking green tea is a great way to lose weight as it is known to boost the immune system and get rid of all the toxins of your body. It is also known to be rich in anti oxidants.