What Healthy Foods To Eat To Lose Weight

What tops your list of foods to eat to lose weight? For me, it's lentils!

Lentils are nutritiously rich and inexpensive foods to eat to lose weight fast. They are high in protein and soluble fibre, and have a naturally calming effect on blood sugar levels. They make you feel so satisfyingly full that you are least likely to binge!

Lentils are a staple in Indian cuisine. They are cooked alongside spices such as cumin, cayenne, garlic and garam masa to make deliciously healthy dhal. So what makes lentils such an incredibly potent natural weight loss food?

Answer: They are the ideal LOW GI FOOD AND LOW GL FOOD.

If you are serious about looking for the right foods to eat to lose weight fast – without the stress of dieting - choose foods on the low glycemic index and low glycemic load. Let’s look at one serving of lentils (150 grams). GL - 29/30. GL - only 5! A perfect food to eat to lose weight fast. Tips On How to lose weight fast on low GI diet.

Here is a healthy Low Gl, Low GL recipe:

Lentil Soup

• 1 cup lentils
• 2 onions, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 small burdock root, sliced
• 1 tablesppon chopped parsley
• A pinch of sea salt
• 1 quart spring water

Instructions

• Wash lentils.
• Layer the vegetables. Start with onions, then carrot, burdock, with lentils on top.
• Add water and pinch of salt.
• Bring to boil.
• Reduce flame to low and cover.
• Simmer for 30 minutes.
• Add chopped parsley.
• Serve.

Eat half a slice of grapefruit or have a glass of grapefruit juice in the morning and before meals to get the enzyme juices moving - and to stimulate the body into burning fat faster. Grapefruit juice is also a great natural detoxifier as it significantly increases the production of liver detoxification enzymes. This low GI and low GL fruit is another perfect food to eat to lose weight fast!

The GI of a grapefruit is only 5, and the GL? 3. Eating grapefruits help lower blood insulin levels and promote faster natural weight loss.

One amazing fact about grapefruits: Though it tastes acidic, it becomes alkaline upon digestion. Over consumption of acidic foods make us fat and unhealthy. However, do take note that grapefruits or grapefruit juice may affect the potency of some medications.

Grapefruit and Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

• Shredded cabbage
  
  
• Ruby red grapefruit, peeled, coarsely chopped
  
  
• Sliced scallions
  
  
• Toasted pecans
  
  
• A little lime juice
  
  
• A little extra virgin oil
  
  
• Toss them all together!
  
  

Enjoy the refreshing zesty taste of this fat-busting grapefruit salad.

To lose weight naturally is really not that hard.

Besides lentils, fruits (except the starchy ones), and vegetables also top the list of foods to lose weight. Fruits and vegetables are nature's antidote to our diet of over-indulgence in high carb and high fat foods.

Eat five to nine pieces of fruit a day. Fill half of your plate with green vegetables. After a few months, you will notice your food cravings have diminished.

Start easy.

Eat a raw food a day, be it a raw fruit, a raw vegetable (my favorites are raw French beans and raw carrots). And increase it to more raw foods!

• Watermelon
• Starfruit
• Oranges
• Strawberries
• Berries
• Lemons
• Apples
• Promenagate

These top my list of perfect low GI and low GL foods to lose weight.