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Just how do you eat to lose weight and what do you have to eat to lose weight? You need to eat to burn body fat. This is a fact: The first nutritional demand of your body is energy. Without adequate energy, your body will convert muscle protein into energy to feed your brain, nervous system and red blood cells.



Tips For Eating to Lose Weight

1.Those who are successful at losing weight make evolutionary changes with their diets, not revolutionary changes. Start by choosing those changes you can live with on a permanent basis. Then move on to change other habits. One habit at a time, you'll get there!

2.Eat slowly this is crucial for losing weight. It take twenty minutes for your stomach to tell your brain you are full.

3.Pick out foods you need to chew on. Try bagels, apples, french rolls and raw vegetables. These foods will slow your rate of eating.

4.Try a warm beverage as or with a snack. This helps to feel full.

5.Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day. This helps fill you up and keeps you busy with other activities besides swinging on the refrigerator door!

6.An eight ounce glass of orange juice is really three oranges! Eating oranges is much more satisfying than drinking juice.

7.Eat an afternoon snack before you leave work. This helps overeating while getting dinner ready.

8.Here are some healthy snacks: Popcorn, bread sticks, oyster crackers, pretzels, fruit, yogurt, gingersnaps, graham crackers, biscotti cookies, vanilla wafers or amaretto cookies.

9.Frozen yogurt, angel food cake and sherbet are all low fat!

10.Every time you use your muscles, you are burning fat. Try climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator.

11.Small steps add up in reducing fat. Use jam on toast instead of butter and knock off 30 calories and 5 grams of fat.

10 top natural starchy carb and whole grains to eat to lose weight!

1. Oatmeal (old fashioned)
2. Yams
3. Brown rice (a favorite is basmati, a long grain aromatic rice)
4. Sweet potatoes (almost same as yams)
5. Multi grain hot cereal (mix or barley, oats, rye. titricale and a few others)
6. White potatoes
7. 100% whole wheat bread
8. 100% whole wheat pasta
9. Beans (great for healthy chili recipes)
10. Cream of rice hot cereal



For the list of the other top 10 foods to eat to lose weight! Check out my blog at the bottom!

One thing people have to know is that if you want to loose weight, you are going to have to eat smaller meals. I would say 4 to 6 small meals per day, to keep your metabolism high. If you do this you will be on your way to weight loss.

Thanks for this thread.Junk food can range from burgers to those cookies that you always bought! Adding a lot of vegetables and fruits to your diet will help you.Also, drinking bouillon, a Haitian soup, made with filtered water will help you feel full.

Numerous people who want to lose weight find it difficult to know which foods to choose for the best weight loss results. Losing weight by swapping and changing to different diets is not the best way. We need to find a way of reducing energy content from the normal foods we eat every day. We should learn to pick out the best foods from our normal daily diet and use them to form the basis for our new healthy eating habits. I took help of Hoodia diet pills for weight loss program. And yes they are effective and safe to rest.

In short try to eat the food that i don't like..it will definatly help you to slow the rate of eating.

Hi,Friends
you will need to fuel before workout ( 2-3 hours before ) with a minimum of 350 calories and after the workout or weight training you will need another 350 calories protein and carbohydrate for your muscles to recover and get stronger and you will eat in dinner 500 calories so you will need between 1200-1400 calories to lose weight effectively.

best of luck