5 Fat Loss Eating Tips and Tricks

     This is a simple eating guide on fat loss. But of course, you need to be committed in your weight loss goals first before any of these tips will become effective. However, these simple things will help a lot in your journey in towards fat loss.

1. Keep a food journal. You can make it as complicated as you want, if you are obsessive compulsive with data, keep tabs of all the calories per piece of food you intake, including other data like carb content and fat. Or, you can make it simple, listing only the food you ate and its caloric content.

2. Set a maximum caloric content for your daily intake. Losing weight all boils down to simple math. You need to burn more than you eat. There are several tools online that you can use as a reference to eat depending on your weight, your weight loss goals and your level of activity. As a rule of thumb though and as a safety precaution, you can only limit yourself to lose around 1-3 pounds per week only.

3. You do not have to stop yourself from eating out. This will only make you depressed if you feel like you are stopping yourself from enjoying life. All you need to do is to go for the healthier food items on the menu. For example, choose a lean chicken grilled steak instead of the red meat one. Opt for a salad side instead of mashed potatoes or grilled corn and ask for the salad's dressing on the side so you can limit the amount of dressing you can put on your salad.

4. Control your appetite by filling up on fiber-rich food items if the first helping of food that you had is not enough. After you clean out your first full serving, instead of grabbing another baby-back rib or protein-rich food, get another serving of the corn and carrot sides. Or ask for that salad bowl again. Going for sides as your second helping is a low calorie alternative. Also, another way to control your appetite is to eat snacks that take time to eat. It takes a while for the brain to know that your stomach is full so eating slowly will help your brain catch up with your stomach.

5. Keep your grocery shopping list lean and healthy. Stay away from the chips and chocolates aisle. Choose whole-grain breads, pasta and cereals, like bread, muffins, crackers, rice and pasta. As for your dairy products, choose skim milk, and fat free cheese and yogurt. For proteins, stick to white meat, like chicken, turkey and fish. Also another protein alternative is tofu. There are dozens upon dozens of recipes online that do magic to tofu that make it surprisingly tasty. For your snacks, buy vegetables and fruits.

Hopefully, these eating tips and tricks will help you in your fat loss goals.

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