summer weight loss
You do not need to starve yourself on a wacky fad diet if you want to look a look better in your swimsuit or short this summer. The secret to lose weight is to choose healthy foods and take in less calories burned. And it's just easier to make better food choices in the summer, when heavy, and dishes high in calories seems less attractive. The best foods for weight loss in the summer light and refreshing, and most importantly, to keep you from the kitchen hot.
One of the easiest way to cut calories from your diet in the summer, experts say, is to get on the generosity of nature. Produce is at its peak in the summer. Delicious fruit and vegetables abound at farmers markets and in your local grocery store. In addition to being low in calories, loaded with the production of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber.
"Enjoy the fresh produce in season and will be happy at how fresh, delicious, and satisfying tastes," says Susan Moores, RD, St. Paul-based nutrition consultant ..
"Save oranges and apples for fall, and carry on fresh berries, melons, vegetables, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beets and peas centuries, and all the super nutritious and low calorie fruits, vegetables and vegetable growing in the garden this time of year."
As a bonus, you can forget about the control part when it comes to fresh fruits and vegetables, says Morris.
"Go for it, because it is difficult to do much damage to your waistline with this food, super-nutritious," says Morris
To keep your cool and reduce your time in the kitchen, start with prepared produce, such as reducing the follow-up washing of fruits and vegetables. Add rotisserie chicken, prepared soups, and pre-threaded kabobs when you need something a little heart attack. Before prepped foods may cost a little extra, but to save time in the kitchen.
Here, selected from a dietitian to some of the best types of foods that help with weight loss during the summer.
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. (1): Chilled soups
Morris loves every kind of production of cold soups, but says that it is one of the favorite dishes low in calories. Chilled soups like gazpacho or option - dill that contain lots of chunky vegetables are a great way to start eating a meal.
"Research shows that low-calorie, broth-based soup at the beginning of the meal will fill you to eat less at the meal," says Morris, St. Paul-based nutrition consultant.
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. (2): watermelon
Who does not love diving in the crisp and juicy slice of watermelon when it's hot outside?
"Half of the watermelon comes from water .... is a great way to satisfy thirst and a yen for something sweet," says Morris.
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. 3: Grilled Vegetables
To register dietitian Dawn Jackson, a dish of grilled vegetables is a summer must have. It recommends keeping dish of grilled onions, peppers, zucchini, carrots, eggplant, asparagus, and garlic in the refrigerator. You can use it to make dishes such as:
1. Grilled vegetables, goat cheese and the authorities
2. Pitas grilled vegetables
3. Grilled vegetables, ricotta and fresh herb pasta and frittatas
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. (4): green
Salah al-Din to provide healthy meals fast - with no recipes required.
"Just give the production a quick rinse; slice, dice, toss fruits and vegetables and low-fat cheese, a handful of nuts with some roasted vegetables and berries or light vinaigrette, ginger, side by side with each roll of grain, and you have a meal within minutes," Morris says.
Or try beans or a full-power grain, such as wheatberry and tabouli.
Moore suggests seasoning your salads with herbs from the garden, so you can go light on the dressing. When you add meat or fish to your power, she says, "We think of as a partner in vegetables, vegetables, and grains."
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. 5: Low-calorie drinks and non -
Smoothies, sweet coffee specialty drinks, sweetened tea and soft drinks - they all go down easily, especially when it's hot outside. But the calories add up with the same ease.
"You can drink the Achilles heel during the summer because we need to drink plenty of fluids to stay cool, but liquids quench thirst and do not usually have the effect of hunger," says Jackson.
Jackson recommends these refreshing beverages and treats this summer to enjoy without blowing your diet:
* Root Beer or Orange Dream Float. 1 / 2 cup milk and vanilla frozen in 12 ounces of diet root beer or orange soda (100 calories)
* Tart lemon bum Spritzer. 12 ounces of sparkling water mixed with lemon lemon juice and 1 1 / 4 cup pomegranate juice, and served over ice (35 calories)
* A large ice skim latte from Starbucks (130 calories)
* White Wine Spritzer. 5 ounces white wine mixed with 3 ounces lemon / lime seltzer water (120 calories)
Best Summer Weight Loss Food No. 6: Fruit Based Desserts
"Desire does not take summer vacation and the weather warm your sweet tooth can wreak havoc on the efforts your weight loss," says Jackson. "Ditch high-calorie sweets and opt for these naturally sweet treats that can tame the fiercest sweet tooth."
It proposes the following:
* Grilled banana sundaes made with low-fat ice cream
* Grilled pineapple with rum and pecans
* Grilled white peaches and berries with honey
* Frozen, cherries, and dark sweet
* The chocolate-covered frozen bananas (such as Diana's Bananas, with 130 calories)
* Frozen grapes
