5 Healthy Foods To Eat When You Are On A Diet

Whether you aim to lose 10 lbs or 20, the foods you eat has the greatest impact on how fast you shed those pounds. More importantly they are the single largest influence on how long to manage to keep those pounds off.

Starving yourself into thinness can have quite the opposite effect as the weight comes galloping back the moment you start eating normally again. If you want to lose weight it is far better to choose your foods wisely rather than deprive your body of much-needed nutrition.

These 5 foods pack a powerful nutritional punch into their calories and will provide your body with essential nutrients without adding on any extra calories:

1 - Fish

Rich in Omega 3 and low in fat, fish offers you a delightful way to lose weight. Three servings of fish a week gives you powerful health benefits without any significant increase in calories. Why give it up this low-fat, power food?

2 - Pink Grapefruit

Versatile and tasty, pink grapefruit can be eaten by itself or tossed in a salad. ½ a grapefruit provides the body with beta-carotene, vitamin C, lycopene, pectin and potassium – for a mere 40 calories.

3 - Spinach

Providing an abundance of folic acid, proteins, vitamins C and K, beta-carotene, lutein, magnesium and manganese for a mere 13 calories, makes spinach the all-time wonder food for al dieters.

4 - Olive Oil

With an abundance of beta-carotene, vitamin E, flavonoids and antioxidants, this mono-unsaturated fat provides your body with a lot of essential healthy fuel.

5 - Whole grain cereals

Though carbohydrates have earned a bad reputation as being the biggest diet busters, this is not entirely true. Your body needs carbohydrates and eliminating them completely from the diet could be harmful in the long term. Small switchovers such as eating ½ cup oatmeal of whole grain cereals give you thrice the nutrition without any additional calories and should be an important part of your daily diet.

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