Eating Salad to lose weight
Losing weight is largely a matter of eating fewer calories than one expends through physical activity. Everyone needs a lunch at work. It helps you maintain your concentration levels and helps significantly with getting through the day. Salads are a high-fibre, nutrient-dense source of calories and are relatively quick to prepare with ingredients to make a fantastic salad widely available in all supermarkets. With planning and preparing of all the salads you eat, aligned with knowing the right things to eat within your salad will provide a quick and effective route to weight loss.
Choose Leafy Greens
Leafy greens are excellent sources of vitamins A and beta carotene and are full of fibre. They will tend make you feel fuller (due to the fibre) while allowing you to eat fewer total calories. Cabbage, romaine lettuce, little gem lettuce, iceberg lettce and spinach are all nutrient-rich leafy greens that form the foundations of a good salad. A serving of raw leafy greens is approximately two cups and should serve as the bulk of your salad contents.
Salad dressings are very uncool:
Salad dressings are a quick way to turn a healthy salad into a calorie riddled nightmare. For example, Regular blue cheese salad dressing typically contains 300 calories and 32g of fat (more than one day's worth) in only a 1/4 cup. Adding this to your salad will increase the calorie intake significantly and turn a salad into a high calorie lunch as opposed to the low calorie alternative. It is best to stay away from the extras altogether or use lemon juice or flavoured vinegar instead. If you feel you need a dressing then explore the health options or reduce the serving significantly. If you pack the salad with all the vegetables you enjoy and the protein you desire then you shouldn’t need to add a dressing.
What to put in?
Guys aren’t used to making salads. Most macho men think salads are for girls. Is this a weird stereotype which people seem to have continued for decades? I couldn’t recall the amount of times ive been called a ‘girl’ by work colleges for having a salad. It seems really alien for a guy to eat a salad these days. Below I have brought together some of the vital ingredients for a really healthy salad. I have also listed the proteins which really give the salad the meaty touch all Men tend to like from their food.
The vegetables:
Vegetables tend to be the most nutritious foods at the salad bar and are also the tastiest and lowest in fat and calories. Aim to add these veggies to every salad:
- beets
- peppers
- red cabbage
- carrots
- tomatoes
- cucumbers
- beans
- sprouts
- onions
- peas
- mushrooms
The great thing about the vegetables mentioned is that they are extremely low in fat yet seem to make the salad extra tasty. Adding these to the salad will give the salad depth so that the salad fills you.
Every man salad needs protein:
That’s right. I’m a guy. You’re a guy. We love to each some type of meat within our meals. We feel it caps off the meal. We feel it fills us. We fill it serves a genuine purpose within every diet. My salads are no different. Below are some of Beer Belly Ryan’s top tips for protein within a salad.
- hard-boiled eggs
- egg whites
- grilled chicken
- boiled or steamed shrimp
- grilled salmon
- roasted turkey breast
- water-packed tuna
Eat a Salad tomorrow:
If you are serious about losing the beer belly then adding a salad to your daily diet will significantly increase the likely hood you will lose weight. Not only are the steps we have provided easy to follow, but they are low in calories. Eating a low calorie salad with the right amount of protein to compliment for lunch instead of a diet of crisps, cans of coke and other snacks will help you on the quest to lose the beer belly. Join me in eating salad for lunch.
Thank you for reading,
Beer Belly Ryan
Sources :
ehow.com
Weightloss.about.com
withamymac.com
