| If you are on a diet, how would you answer this | | | | 5) Cut down on your consumption of alcohol. Alcohol |
| question? Are you fat because you're hungry or are | | | | has a tendency to trick our metabolism system into |
| you hungry because you're fat? This appears to be a | | | | believing it needs more food and sends us the hungry |
| "which came first the chicken or the egg" type | | | | signal. In actual reality the body does want food to help |
| question but surprisingly to most dieters, the answer is | | | | absorb the alcohol, but often this signal is perceived as |
| both. Why? It is simple really, if you are over weight | | | | a false hungry signal instead. |
| you have more body surface area that radiates heat | | | | 6) What if you could make tasty meals yourself that |
| and thus requires more calories to fuel this heat. | | | | would speed up the process of losing weight? By |
| Nutritionists agree that foods that satisfy your hunger | | | | combining 'negative calorie' fruits and vegetables into |
| the fastest will help you to cut down on calories. They | | | | salads and other dishes at mealtime, you can |
| call this the satiety value of food. Some foods are | | | | accelerate your weight loss in a delicious way. |
| quick to satisfy hunger but are short term in the | | | | Negative calorie foods are not new and have been |
| digestive system and ultimately cause us to eat more | | | | discussed in weight loss circles for years. They are |
| often. Foods that remain in our digestive process | | | | essentially fruits and vegetables that make your body |
| longer have a higher satiety value. | | | | use more calories (units of heat) to digest than they |
| Foods that have a high satiety value level include: | | | | contain themselves. When you eat them as part of |
| meat, milk, and fish. Examples of foods with a low | | | | your diet, the net result is a negative calorie balance. |
| satiety value level would be eggs, green vegetables, | | | | This will help you lose weight faster. |
| and bread. An adequate combination of the high and | | | | Here is a short list of popular negative calorie fat |
| low satiety value level foods is your best defense in | | | | burning foods: |
| curbing your appetite while on a diet. | | | | * Asparagus |
| The five tips will help you achieve a balance of satiety | | | | * Apples |
| value food intake and help you curb your appetite. | | | | * Beets |
| 1) Stop eating just short of receiving the full signal from | | | | * Broccoli |
| your brain or stomach. For reasons not totally | | | | * Cabbage |
| understood people that tend to put on weight easily | | | | * Carrots |
| have trouble recognizing the full signal from their brain | | | | * Cauliflower |
| until they have way over eaten. | | | | * Celery |
| 2) Develop socially entertaining mental habits. Often | | | | * Cucumbers |
| dieters will become bored because they have few | | | | * Garlic |
| entertainment value interests and will turn to eating to | | | | * Grapefruit |
| fulfill this boredom. Find new hobbies or socialize with | | | | * Lettuce |
| friends more to avoid this lack of entertainment | | | | * Oranges |
| stimulus. | | | | * Papaya |
| 3) Eat foods that require vigorous chewing. Generally | | | | * Pineapples |
| foods that you must chew more before swallowing | | | | * Raspberries |
| will stay in our digestive process longer. Foods such as | | | | * Spinach |
| meat, crisp celery, and uncooked carrots are great | | | | * Strawberries |
| examples of these type of foods. | | | | * Turnips |
| 4) Do not drink too much water with meals. Drink only | | | | * Zucchini |
| enough to help you swallow chewed food. Drinking | | | | As you can see there are many fat burning foods to |
| more water than necessary will give you the notion | | | | choose from that will not only help you decrease your |
| you are full too soon and will be a false signal. Water | | | | appetite but also help you lose weight fast. The way |
| remains in our digestive process the shortest of any | | | | to achieve faster weight loss with these foods is to |
| other drink and will be quickly depleted from our | | | | eat more of them more often. |
| system. | | | | |