Vegetarian Weight LossWhat to Eat to Lose Weight as a Vegetarian
By Laura Ng
Eating RIGHT is the NUMBER ONE thing you must practise to lose weight effectively.
In other words, you must find out what food to eat and how to eat them in a way to generate maximum fat loss for you. Otherwise, you'll gain weight easily despite working out at your favorite gym like mad.
What Food to Eat for Weight Loss?
Cut down on refined vegetarian foods that contain white sugar (simple refined carbohydrate), high-sodium and unhealthy vegetable saturated fats (except coconut oil).
Instead, choose more nutrient-dense vegetarian weight loss foods for their super high nutritional value but low in calories.
Such weight loss foods often come in whole, natural forms with abundant supply of dietary fiber, complex carbohydrate, protein, and various vitamins and minerals essential for your optimal health and well-being, on top of helping you to lose weight.
Food containing complex-carbohydrate and fiber fill you up nicely before you consume too many calories. You'll feel full in your belly but without that heavy, "overeaten" feeling.
At the same time, your body will receive a steady stream of energy supply in the form of blood glucose because complex-carb requires more energy and longer time to digest due to its complex sugar structure, as compared to that of simple carbohydrate. With addition of fiber, the digestion takes even longer. So you get to sustain your metabolic and physical activities over longer duration.
More importantly, the presence of complex-carb and fiber keeps your blood sugar and insulin level in check, thereby preventing type 2 diabetes. It also puts a stop to your food cravings.
More fiber will also help to sweep toxins and waste out of your body quickly so they can't stay around in your intestines to create havoc, thereby accumulating fat in your midsection.
Protein also helps to increase satiation. Of course, plant-based proteins like beans, peas, and lentils, often contain good amount of dietary fiber and other essential vitamins (e g. A & C) and minerals (e.g. calcium, iron, potassium, manganese) too.
Now you got fiber, complex-carb and protein in your meals, superb! How about complementing your weight loss with coconut oil?
Coconut oil is no ordinary oil. It composes mainly of saturated fat, but it's a healthy fat-burning saturated fat, unlike other animal and vegetable saturated fats you have been eating all along which make you unstoppably fat.
Besides complex carbohydrate and fiber, adding healthy fat like coconut oil to your diet supports long lasting energy by preventing big fluctuations in your blood sugar and crash. When you don't crash, you won't crave more sugar for energy.
Now you know exactly what to eat for weight loss, next, you must learn how to eat to lose weight in order to get a complete picture of effective weight loss with vegetarian eating.
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