Thread: 8 Foods to Power Up Your Diet

Dieting can be such a pain if you deprive yourself of eating almost everything for the fear of gaining weight and count the calories you take in and make sure that you go beyond your limit. Well here are some power foods you can enjoy and make dieting fun!

Apples: A medium sized apple has about 95 calories and 4 grams of fiber which is a great deal for your diet. And according to recent research, increasing your fiber intake may help you to prevent weight gain—or even encourage weight loss.

Oatmeal: Eating a breakfast made with “slow-release” carbohydrates, such as oatmeal or bran cereal, 3 hours before you exercise may help you burn more fat. The reason is that eating “slow-release” carbohydrates didn’t spike blood sugar as high as eating refined carbohydrates, such as white toast. In turn, insulin levels didn’t spike as high and because insulin plays a role in signaling your body to store fat, having lower levels may help you burn fat.

Soup: According to research, those who start a meal with vegetable soup eat 20 percent fewer calories over the course of their meal.

Low-Cal Desserts: It may be easier to stick to your diet if it includes a little sweet treat. Based on a new study, avoiding sweets could lead to overeating. One reason may be that removing access to sugary foods stimulates the release of a molecule in your brain called corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), produced when you’re afraid, anxious or stressed. And increased stress levels may lower your motivation to eat more nutritious foods, making it more likely that you’ll binge on junk food.

Mushrooms: As per reports, when people ate mushroom-based entrees, they felt just as satisfied as when they’d eaten those same dishes made with beef—though they’d taken in a fraction of the calories and fat.

Eggs: According to studies, those who eat eggs for breakfast feel fuller longer and lost more than twice as much weight as those who got the same amount of calories from a bagel for breakfast.

Hot Chile Peppers: In a study, consuming a little hot pepper (in tomato juice or in capsules) 30 minutes before a meal helped people feel less hungry and eat about 10 percent less.

Almonds: Chew more to control hunger. Eating more may cause a greater release of fat from the almonds, which triggers hormones that curb hunger.

These are great tips kathy, you really know your diet . I'm sure that many of our members here appreciate this post. I'll suggest this to my friends and I know for sure they will love it! Thanks!

I ate almonds when I am hungry and in between meal and it can keep me full until the next meal. I have eggs twice a week and I do realize that it keeps me full faster. I cannot even finish a whole hard boiled egg because it's heavy on the stomach. I do make sure that I have desserts after every meal to keep me more satisfied with my meal and not crave for a few more.

Those are great tips. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing the list, but I still have doubts with the eggs. I tried to wat more in the morning to feel full during the day, but it seems that everything goes from my brain, and not from the stomach.

thanks for sharing!! i was just reading the negative calorie foods thread and i think putting these 2 lists together would be great!.
I happen to LOVE oatmeal. i like that depending on my mood, i can make it thick or soupy. and i always put in dried cranberries for a bit of flavor!

Man you have not mention the fiber junction .
Banana , The best thing to go for if you really want to put some weight.

I was using all these ingredients to my diet instead of mushrooms but now i must try to add it to my diet. Thanks for the tips.