Although there are many factors that play into helping your weight loss goals come to fruition, what you eat can be what makes or breaks your efforts. In fact, what you put into your body can greatly help (or hinder) your system to burn more calories, balance blood sugar and other levels in your body, and also assist with helping you sleep better (which also helps burn calories!). Here is a list of my top 10 foods to help you lose 10 or more.
- Almonds: Almonds are known for helping to stabilize blood sugar levels. This prevents imbalanced or erratic rising and falling levels which may prevent overeating and also help prevent abdominal fat. They are also filled with good fats that help lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease. Plus, they help you stay full!
- Bananas: Bananas are also a known blood sugar stabilizer. They also contain a number of beneficial vitamins including potassium and help you stay full. Bananas are also known to help you sleep better.
- Apples: Apples have a large amount of fiber which helps you stay full and prevents overeating. Consuming an apple or two before meals may help you eat less. Antioxidants in apples will also help you burn more calories and fight aging.
- Green Tea: Green tea packs a great amount of antioxidants which help fight against a number of ailments including heart disease, but it also helps stave off weight gain. Drinking a cup or more daily offers up enough caffeine to help burn more calories for you. A cup a day may also help prevent high cholesterol, diabetes, and deliver great anti-aging benefits to your skin, hair and nails.
- Black Beans: Containing a great amount of proteins, fiber, and fat-burning resistance starch, black beans are the ultimate fat fighter. They help you stay full and burn fat.
- Garlic: Studies have shown that those who chose to cook with garlic lost more pounds than those who didn’t. A calorie free spice, garlic is great for heart heath, helps balance sugar levels, and improves cholesterol. It has great flavor without some of the negative side effects sometimes caused by excess salt.
- Oatmeal: Oatmeal is full of fiber to help you stay full. An insulin stabilizer, oatmeal also helps keep your sugar levels balanced to prevent overeating.
- Tomatoes: Research has shown that tomatoes include a type of fiber that helps you stay fuller for longer and directly prevents stomach weight gain. Also containing the powerful antioxidant lycopene, tomatoes help prevent premature aging and protect against various types of cancer.
- Yogurt: Containing a good amount of protein, carbohydrates and fat, yogurt is perfect for helping you stay full. Balancing sugar levels, yogurt also helps prevent overeating.
- Salmon, Tuna & Other Fish: Fish is a great source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids, both of which can assist you in shrinking your waistline. As the fish protein helps you build muscle and burn fat, omega-3’s help increase insulin sensitivity which builds muscle and burns fat while balancing out sugar levels and helping to utilize energy in your body more efficiently.