Best Diet Foods For Weight Loss

TOP LOW CALORIE FOODS THAT FILL YOU UP

Bread - It gets such a bad name from todays diet gurus but humans have been eating bread for over 10,000 years so yes bread is good for you when it comes to calorie counting. Bread is around 90 calories per slice so as long as you choose the right fillings you can use bread for dieting. For example 2 pieces of white/brown bread with tuna and sweetcorn with a bit of light mayo the sandwich will be around 390 calories. Just for arguments sake you could eat 5 of those sandwiches per day and still be under 2000 calories per day. As long as your drinking water or sugar free drinks you will be at a calorie deficit.

Bread gets a bad name like many carbs these days but if humans have been eating bread for over 10,000 years can it really be so bad? As long as you don't have a major intolerance towards bread then bread can be your best friend when dieting. Even a ham and cheese sandwich is not going to be much more than 450 calories just don't go crazy with the cheese and butter, for more accurate calorie counting get your sandwiches pre made from the supermarket its so much less effort and you can buy a large variety for a couple days in advance. We don't suggest living on sandwiches alone but don't let todays diet gurus tell you bread is bad for you, bread can be good.

Potatoes - baked, boiled or mashed potatoes contain only 77 calories per 100 grams which is excellent and is one of the lowest calorie foods in the world also a good source of vitamin C. Potatoes get a bad rep because of fries, chips and all sorts of fried potato based foods but if you take away the frying cooking method then potatoes are a top diet food and very easy to digest. Fun fact- one of the oldest women to ever live ate mostly boiled potatoes it made up more than 50% of her diet she remained slim all the way through her life until she died aged 114 years old.

Beans - Beans are high in protein and fiber making them very filling considering they are low in calories. Most beans per 100 gram will contain less than 0.5 grams of fat weather that's baked beans, green beans or even kidney beans they also contain vitamins C,A and K. The fact that beans on toast is such an easy meal to make and super cheap too makes beans a great diet food.

Tuna - another high protein low fat food which is not too expensive and very convenient straight from the can, contains omega 3 fats and very low in calories as long as you choose the tuna in water when buying tuna in a tin. Easy to include in salads and sandwiches or on top of jacket potatoes 100 grams of tuna contains around 130 calories which is very low for a food that fills you up, to put it into perspective 100 grams of cheese is over 400 calories.

Oats - oats are a great addition to your diet because of the slower released energy it provides means you wont get an energy crash throughout the day. A full cup of oats in the morning will be around 300 calories and because of the protein and fiber which will fill you up your not going to be reaching for snacks straight after breakfast.

Eating oats is a good habit to start you will notice much more control over your appetite and hunger levels after just 1 week of oats everyday, as your body learns it has a good supply of slow burning energy to rely on it will stop sending hunger signals as often which will stop you reaching for snacks.

Greek yogurt - ok so when we talk about yogurt we don't mean the fun yogurts that have chocolate balls and crunchy biscuits in were talking about boring old Greek yogurt with no added flavors or sugars. 1 cup of Greek yogurt or 250 grams is around 160 calories and because it contains around 10% protein that means for every 250 grams of yogurt your getting 25 grams of protein which is very high indeed.

Now Greek yogurt is very boring on its own so mix in some super fruits like blueberries or pomegranate seeds to help you enjoy it you don't want your diet to feel like a chore its important you still look forward to meals otherwise you will create a negative relationship with healthy foods and we don't want that.

Eggs - poached or boiled eggs are one of the best tools for any diet they contain more nutrients and amino acids per gram than most things on this planet, that's because inside that shell there is everything needed to make a warm blooded vertebrate. Sorry that's not a very appetizing way to talk about eggs but its true you wont find many things more nutritious than eggs and the best part is they are low in calories high in protein 1 large egg is around 70 calories.

studies have shown people who eat eggs in the morning consume less calories through the day over 100 calories less everyday. That doesn't sound like much but after 20 days that's 2000 calories or a full days worth of calories that egg eaters have reduced from there calorie intake just from eating eggs.

Watermelon - The perfect snack in between meals is watermelon for a few reasons, firstly its a thirst quencher this is going to help you avoid wasting your daily calorie intake on sugary drinks which are essentially empty calories that do not fill you up and do not provide any nutritional benefit to your diet. So if sugary drinks is one of your bad habits see how watermelon works for you as its got the sweetness your bodies craving but only around 30 calories per 100 grams.

Think about those calories for a second, that means you could eat a whole watermelon that weighs 1 whole kilogram and it would be around 300 calories which is less calories than some of those sugar packed energy drinks. Next time your drinking a sugary drink just remember your consuming over 1KG of watermelon worth of calories but getting zero of the nutrition value.

Broccoli - The great thing about broccoli is its calorie content is so light you would have to eat around 2kg of broccoli to get the same calories as a McDonald's milkshake let that sink in. Now I know which one is more exciting out the 2 options but just think about how 2 kilograms of food is the same calorie intake as milkshake its just insane really and then think about the nutrition difference.

The milkshake will provide you with around 90 grams of sugar and maybe a fair bit of protein from the milk but the broccoli will provide a very large amount of vitamins, minerals, bioactive compounds which reduce inflammation, antioxidants and fiber which help control your blood sugar levels it contains almost zero fat and is a good source of potassium and iron. The point I'm making once again is make good 'choices' with your daily calorie allowance don't waste 500 calories on a sugary treat that gives you zero health benefits and doesn't fill you up when you could choose 500 calories that will fill you up for hours and make you feel great.