Excellent question and one that I cover in my recent live presentation, where I offer an overview of the key ingredients for weight loss, the topic of my book How Not to Diet.
To whet your appetite, here are some of the key takeaways:
- Shift the emphasis from restriction to positive “eat more” messaging of increasing intake of healthy, low-calorie-density foods.
- Starting your meal with water-rich foods, such as fruits and vegetables, may lead to fewer overall calories consumed.
- Two teaspoons of vinegar with each meal may lead to weight loss.
- Such spices as garlic powder, black cumin, regular cumin, cayenne pepper, and ginger powder may result in reductions in both weight and the waistline.
- Bumping up fiber intake leads to more calorie loss through waste flushed down the toilet.
- The membranes in leafy green vegetables, such as spinach, can boost appetite-suppressing hormones.
- Fiber from whole foods feeds our gut bacteria, which dial down our appetite while increasing the rate at which we burn fat and, at the same time, boosting our metabolism.
- The exact same number of calories consumed at breakfast are significantly less fattening than the same number of calories eaten at dinner.
- A few hours of missed sleep per week may obstruct fat loss.
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