Spoil Your Appetite For Junk Food By Eating Healthy Food Instead

Remember when you were little you were told, "Don't eat that before dinner it will spoil your appetite". Why not try to spoil your appetite for junk food by filling up on nutritious food instead?  Think about it...there is only so much space in your stomach. If you fill up on healthy food there'll be less space in your stomach for the unhealthy stuff you're usually tempted to eat.

Swap High Calorie Foods for High Water Content Foods

Cucumbers are vegetables with high water content and few calories per serving. Watery vegetables can help you lose weight when they are used to replace higher-calorie foods. Use cucumbers strategically as part of a low-calorie diet plan to reduce hunger and stimulate weight loss.You can use cucumber to add volume to meals without adding a lot of calories.

Cucumbers' high water content can help you feel full, leading you to consume less food at meals. Cucumber acts as a natural diuretic, making you urinate more often, which reduces bloating and water retention, notes Mayo Clinic nutritionist Katherine Zeratsky.

Information Source: Livestrong.Com

Focus On The Foods That Help You Lose Weight

Focus on the foods that help you lose weight - If it doesn’t help you lose weight, don’t focus on it…don’t even bring it into the house!

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Watermelon Can Help With Weight Loss

Watermelon can almost be called a weight loss super-food. It contains only 30 calories per 100g, so you can eat quite a lot of it without making a big difference to your daily calorie intake. Its sweet, juicy deliciousness helps satisfy a sweet tooth thus making it easier to avoid higher calorie treats. Watermelon is a rich source of Vitamin C and also contains other nutrients like potassium, vitamin A and B...oh, and did I mention it's 92% water? 

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Healthy Food Tastes So Good

I remember in the past that I used to see healthy foods like salads as tasteless rabbit's food...how wrong I was. I think many of us who are overweight live under this myth that healthy food tastes bad and unhealthy food tastes good. I realised that it was a matter of habit, once I gradually changed my eating habits, I began to discover that healthy, clean foods are super-delicious.

The salad in this picture was one I made for myself, and believe me it was delicious. Salads are so versatile because you can add just about anything to them. I did not need to add a high calorie dressing to it because the ingredients I used (especially the guacamole) really added lots of flavour.

I took this photo with my I-phone and did not realise it would come out so well, so I am really enthusiastic now about posting more pics of my meals and recipe ideas in forthcoming posts.

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Plan Your Meals Ahead

Plan your meals ahead - When you fail to plan you plan to fail

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Eat A Salad Every Day

Make it your habit to eat a salad every day. Salads are low in calories, nutritious and quick and easy to prepare.

Don't See It As A Diet

Don't see it as a diet or you'll fail (eventually). Instead see it as a lifestyle and you'll succeed (eventually).

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Eat Clean To Be Lean

Eat clean to be lean.

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Drink Green Tea

A study performed at the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh UK, looked at the effects of short-term green tea consumption on a group of students between the ages of 19–37. Participants were asked not to alter their diet and to drink 4 cups of green tea per day for 14 days. The results showed that short-term consumption of commercial green tea reduces Blood Pressure, cholesterol, body fat and body weight. -Wikipedia

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Have You Had Yours Today?

Have you had yours yet today? You know what they say about "An apple a day..."

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One Cup Of Cabbage Contains Only 25 Calories

1 large cup (100g) of cabbage contains only 25 calories.

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Don't Treat Your Stomach Like A Garbage Can

Don't treat your stomach like a garbage can.

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Fast Food Doesn't Have To Be Junk Food

Fast food doesn't have to be junk food.

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Did One Of Your Meals Look Like This Today?

Did one of your meals look a lot like this today?

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Overeating Is Always A Decision

Overeating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

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I Love Apples

A Brazilian study of overweight women, found that those who ate apples showed more weight loss than those who did not eat fruit. Source

Apples are about 85% water

Apples are about 85% water - EAT MORE FRUIT

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Stop The Skip & Binge Cycle

Stop the skip and binge cycle. To break the cycle, eat smaller, regular, healthy, lower calorie meals throughout the day.

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Nutrient High Calorie Low Cauliflower

Romanesco broccoli, or Roman cauliflower, is a variant form of cauliflower. First documented in Italy in the sixteenth century, the vegetable is a rich source of vitamin C, vitamin K and fibre. Source: Wikipedia

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