10 Healthy Snacks for Weight Loss

When trying to lose weight, exercises is always an important aspect, accompanied by <a href="">healthy snack food</a>.  You can put these foods into two groups; high protein foods and those containing large amounts of fibre.

http://turbofitnesssecrets.com/dieting/10-healthy-snacks-for-weight-loss/

It breaks down to one simple fact, fat burning foods are foods, that require more calories to burn the food than calories that are actually contained in the food.  These foods are sometimes referred to as calorie negative foods.

Below is a list of fat fighting foods:

1.      Apples: The pectin in apples blocks the cells ability to absorb fat.  Secondly, the fibre helps to make your feel full, thus eating less.  Thirdly, it encourages water absorption from the food which helps in releasing built up fat deposits from your body.

2.      Vitamin C rich fruits:  Citrus fruits such as limes, lemons, oranges, guava, grapefruit, papaya, sweet limes, tangerines and tomatoes are loaded with Vitamin C and fibre.  They also have fat burning properties that allow them to be categorized as fat burning foods.  Vitamin C is essential for the body's ability to process fat, and at a faster rate.  Secondly,  it stimulates the body's ability to create carnitine amino acid, which speeds the body's fat-burning capacity.  Vitamin C has the ability to dilute your body's fat reserves and make it less effective.  Thus helping your body in releasing the fat reserves.

3.      Calcium Rich Dairy Products:  Foods like milk, cheese and yogurt will boost your body's ability to burn fat.  Try something different and make yogurt pops, simply freeze yogurt in a popsicle tray.

4.      Nuts:  A very and easy snack food, that helps to keep you feeling full, while increasing your body's ability to burn fat.  Make sure you aren't getting any flavoured are salt added varieties.  Organic almonds are the best.

5.      Frozen Juice Bars: Unwrap a frozen juice bar and you can practically hear the ice cream truck rounding the corner of your cul-de-sac. "They're sweet and tangy, and anything frozen takes longer to eat," Gidus says. "They're just a few calories, and they've even got some vitamins."

6.      Gum:  Before you reach for a snack — even one on this list — ask yourself if you're really hungry. If you're not or you're not sure, reach for a stick of gum.  Chewing a stick of gum can burn up to 11 calories per hour.

7.      Beef Jerky: Is actually a very healthy snack contrary to popular belief. On average one ounce of jerky contains about 70-80 calories, 12 grams of protein and around 1 gram of fat.

8.      Avocadoes: Are loaded with fibre, to keep you feeling full longer.

9.      Proteins: Protein rich foods such as low calorie dairy products, beans, whole grains, oatmeal and eggs require more energy to digest than fat

10.  Green Tea:  A lot of studies have shown that drinking green tea, revs up your body's metabolism, so try to drink a few cups a day.

In order to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume; however, skipping meals will do the exact opposite and slow down your metabolism.  You can create the necessary calorie deficit by eating calorie negative foods.  This will allow you to reach your goals.