These usually advise you to starve yourself so I would rather recommend recipes that you can actually eat and which you will be more than happy to do so.
Nonetheless, what is a good salad weight loss recipe to remind you of your diet?
This California Style Salad comes from The Ram Nut Diet™. As with a salad, you get all your ingredients and happily toss them into a salad bowl before mixing them up.
You need the following ingredients:
4 cups of lettuce,
1 cut avocado,
2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds,
4 ounces of shredded chicken and
to ‘season’ your salad, you need 1 tablespoon olive oil and lemon juice.
Heat your salad on low heat, pour in 4 egg whites, cook until set and voila!
It is so yummy, you can down this yourself though it is for two.
I love clam chowder soup so I shall share this fantastic New England Clam Chowder recipe.
Use 2 teaspoons of margarine in place of oil to heat the pan.
Add half cup of chopped onion, stir continuously till soft.
Add half cup of potatoes,
3/4 cup of water and
¼ can of the liquid you get from canned baby clams to give your soup flavour.
Boil for 8 to 10 minutes till potatoes soften.
Reduce the heat and add ¼ can of clams,
1 cup of skim milk,
a dash of salt and pepper.
Not the best weight loss recipe with 219 calories and 6g fat,
but hey, you are already consuming less calories for great clam chowder soup
This is a filling meal: Sweet Potato Casserole
Preheat oven at 175˚ C.
Blend 3 cups of cooked sweet potatoes,
4 egg whites,
2 tablespoons of flour and
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Add in ¼ cup of sugar substitute,
¼ teaspoon nutmeg and
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Pour the puree into a casserole dish.
Next, the topping consists of 3 tablespoons of flour,
2 tablespoons of butter and
1/2 cup of brown sugar
You can add chopped pecans for a crunchy texture.
Slather the topping over and bake for half an hour until golden brown and it smells good! (duh!).
This gives you 10 servings at a measly 6g fat and 177 calories
Ricotta Pumpkin Cheesecake is the simplest weight loss recipe you can find for a dessert.
Simply throw the following into the blender to make a puree.
Add 3/4-cup ricotta cheese,
2/3 cup of cottage cheese and
1 1/3 cups milk powder
Of course, get the skimmed versions or any brand which offers you the least fat.
You also require 3/4 cup of egg substitute,
¼ cup of brown sugar,
1/2 cup pumpkin
1 tablespoon lemon juice and
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and
cinnamon for flavour.
Simultaneously, preheat your oven to 175˚ C.
Pour into the prepared graham cracker crust.
It has to be about the size of a dish to hold the filling.
Bake for almost an hour until the mixture is no longer gooey.
This is your dream dessert as it only has 160 calories and 1 g fat.
12 g of much needed protein comes from the cheese.
It serves 8 but with so little calories, who cares about sharing!
These suggested recipes are not like other strict weight loss recipes. Though the calorie level are higher than recipes advocated in most other diets, these are high in flavour and allows you to indulge in ‘normal’ everyday foods , so that you do not go cold turkey and lose heart in your diet.
You cannot measure every morsel that passes your lips, but it is a good idea to measure most foods and beverages until you get a feel for portion sizes.
It is a supersized world out there, and most people are surprised to find that their idea of a single serving is actually two or three.
If you are into bells and whistles, there are food scales that are preprogrammed with nutritional information, as well as scales that will keep a running total of your daily food and nutrient intake for you.
The only tools you really need, however, are a simple and inexpensive gram scale, dry and liquid measuring cups, and idea on reading food labels.
Among all of the mentioned tools, reading food labels seem to be the most effective way of determining the right kind of food to be bought in the supermarket.
It lets you make sensible food selections.
Through the “Nutrition Facts” section in a particular item in the grocery, you can identify the amount of serving sizes provided in that product.
With food labels, you can clearly understand the amount and kinds of nutrients that are provided in the item.
Usually, it contains the information on saturated fat, sodium, total fat, fiber, and cholesterol amount “per serving.”
However, understanding and reading these food labels can be very perplexing. A typical consumer would definitely ask what those numbers mean and how it will affect her diet intake if ever she will religiously follow the serving guide as stipulated on the food label.
To further have a clear and more comprehensive understanding of the items stated in the food label, here is a list of things that you need to know:
1. Serving size
This is the primary item you will see in a food label.
The amount of servings stated in the food label refers to the quantity of food people usually consume. However, this does not necessarily mean that it reflects your very own amount of food intake.
Moreover, serving size determines the amount of nutrients that enters the body. This means that if you will follow strictly what the serving size is, you will obtain the same amount of nutrients according to the serving size that was given in the label.
For instance, if the serving size says one serving size is equal to 54 grams, that would mean you have to measure 54 grams and eat that and you have just eaten one serving.
So to speak, the amount of nutrients stated in the food label is the same amount that has entered your body considering the fact that you have just eaten 54 grams.
However, if you have eaten everything, and the food label says that each pack is equivalent to 4 servings, you have to calculate the amount of nutrients that have entered your body.
This means that if the food label says 250 calories per serving that means you have to multiply it to four to get the total amount of calories you have taken.
2. Nutrients
This refers to the list of available nutrients in a particular item.
It is also where the nutritional claims of the product based on the recommended daily dietary allowance are stated.
Usually, the nutritional amounts are based on both the 2,500-calorie diets and the 2,000 recommended dietary allowances.
In order to understand the numeric value of each item, you should know that the “% daily value” that the food label indicates is actually based on how a particular food corresponds to the recommended daily dietary allowance for a 2,000 calorie.
If in the event that you have purchased an item that has a dietary allowance different from the 2,000-calorie diet, you just have to divide the stipulated amount by 2,000 and you will be able to identify the “%daily value” for the nutrients.
3. Ingredients
This refers to the list of the ingredients that were used to manufacture the product.
The listing is usually arranged from the main ingredients that have the greater amount by weight up to the smallest quantity.
This simply means that the actual quantity of the food includes the biggest quantity of the main ingredient or the first item and the minimum amount of the very last ingredient.
4. Label claim
This refers to the kinds of nutritional claims of a particular food item.
For instance, if an item says it is sodium-free, it has less than 5 milligrams per serving or a low fat item actually contains 3 grams of fat or less.
Indeed, reading food labels can be very tedious and confusing.
Nevertheless, once you get the hang of it, it would be easier for you to watch your diet because you can already control the amount of food that you take.
By the time volunteered for a particular fitness program two years later, he had put 25 extra pounds back on.
After 6 months of exercise and some willpower at the dinner table, Mike slimmed down again.
This time he felt better than he ever had, brimming with energy and glowing with good health.
What made the difference?
The first time Mike lost weight; the second time he lost fat.
The distinction is important.
...According to research, a large portion of the weight lost by dieting alone is active tissue, such as muscle and connective tissue, while a smaller fraction is excess fat.
...Exercise has the opposite effect. It increased his lean body mass and decreased his excess fat.
Same thing goes with cellulite.
Most people tend to think that cellulites are only present to people who are obese. That is why they sometimes associate cellulite with fats and obesity.
Actually, even if cellulite refers to the chain of wrinkled “fat cells” and “subcutaneous connective tissues” beneath the layer of the skin, it should never be associated with people who are fat or obese.
In fact, there are many people who have cellulite but are not fat at all.
In reality, nobody knows the main reason why some people accumulate cellulite.
However, there are some factors that health experts are considering such as the structure of the fat cells or the poison that entered the body.
Some experts say it may be caused by some hormonal changes in the body. But none of these things has been proven to cause cellulitis.
However, the only main reason why most of the cellulite cases are abundant in women is that the connective tissues of women are more rigid and firm than men. Hence, whenever a woman gets fat, the fatty cells tend to swell and get bigger.
It creates a protruding appearance to the skin producing an “orange peel” look.
For this reason, women are more prone to cellulite than men.
That is why it is important for women to be more careful on their body as they have higher chances of accumulating cellulite.
Fats and Cellulite
With the many cases of obese people having cellulites in their body, most of them believed that their cellulites are caused by being too fat.
Even though not all those who are obese develop cellulites, being overweight can really trigger the development of cellulites.
This is because too much fat under the skin tend to push the connective tissue creating a strain on the skin. Thus, cellulites form.
However, this is still dependent on the structure of the cells. If an individual’s cell structure does not inhibit the tendency to bulge or expand even if fat deposits accumulate, then there will be no cellulites.
So, the most important thing to remember here is to keep those connective tissues firm and strong and avoid accumulating excess fats so as to avoid the development of cellulite.
How?
Start an exercise routine program.
Transforming food into fat seems all too easy for most of us. Losing fat is far more difficult, and to accomplish this, we have only three alternatives:
(1) decrease food intake and keep activity constant;
(2) increase activity and keep food intake constant; or
(3) combine both approaches: diet and exercise.
Physical activity can help reverse the results of inactivity.
An hour of vigorous exercise burns up 300 to 600 calories. If you also cut 300 to 500 calories from your daily menu, you can also lose weight at the rate of one to two pounds a week.
Without exercise, you would have to eat 500 to 1,000 fewer calories a day to lose the same number of pounds in a week.
Exercise is not for everyone who is over-fat, however.
The severely obese person should exercise only under medical supervision to prevent strain on the cardiovascular system and connective tissue.
And no one should restrict food intake drastically without consulting doctor.
Resorting to this kind of activity will only get the matter worse.
Remember what happened to Mike?
He thought that when he started dieting, he would eventually lose all the excess fats he has accumulated.
The problem is that he lost those connective tissues rather than excess fat.
For people who are prone to cellulites, this will be a greater problem.
Losing connective tissues instead of fat by strict dieting can only make the skin more prone to greater problems but the fat cells are still there.
That only means that the problem is not solved at all.
Hence, if you wish to lose those cellulites, it would be better to lose those fats first.
The idea here is to burn those fats by increasing your metabolism by 7.5% to 28% more than your normal rate.
It is for this reason that exercising is an important factor in losing cellulite. So for a more cellulite free body, always engage in an exercise routine.
Can Shrink Toning Lotion help you get rid of cellulite?
Definitely not a magic product but can be a great addition to your fight against stubborn fat because Shrink Toning Lotion works into the deeper layers of your skin to really target the areas that need the most attention. This is a lotion that’s designed to penetrate the adipose deposits beneath the surface level of your skin, which in turn means that it’s able to get the job done more quickly than some of the other similar products out there.
Especially when you incorporate it into a regular exercise routine, this is a product that can go a long way toward helping you improve the appearance and feeling of the skin on your body.