Nutrition

5 Foods to Accelerate Your Weight Loss

What are five of the best foods to help accelerate your weight loss?

And this is not just weight loss; it’s fat loss.

There is nothing magical about these foods that make them so great for weight loss. 

But there are a couple of key components I was considering when building out this list.

-Protein
-Fiber

What They Have In Common

What protein and fiber both have in common is that they are both very satiating.

They both allow you to feel more full because of how they turn off the hunger hormone of ghrelin.

When you are more full, you are much less likely to over consume calories.

Unique to Fiber

One of the unique things about fiber is that you’re not digesting all of the calories that you’re consuming.

What do I mean?

There are two types of fiber:

1.Soluble Fiber
2.Insoluble Fiber

Soluble fiber dissolves in water, forms a gel-like substance in the colon, and slows down digestion and nutrient absorption from the stomach and the intestine.

Insoluble fiber does not dissolve in water and is actually left intact and undigested. 

Insoluble fiber helps to speed up the passage of food through your stomach and intestine, and it adds bulk to the stool and can help relieve constipation.

The calories that you get purely from insoluble fiber don’t get digested.

For example, if a food has 100 calories and 15 of those calories are from insoluble fiber, then 15 of those calories don't actually get digested from your system. 

Only 85 of those calories get digested while the other 15 get excreted.

Unique to Protein

Protein when compared to carbohydrates, fat, and alcohol, has the highest thermic effect of food.

Thermic effect of food is the amount of energy it takes to digest, absorb, and metabolize the food you eat.

Your body has to work harder to break down protein which results in a higher calorie burn.

How many more calories do you burn from this?

It’s not a crazy significant amount when we’re talking about just one meal. 

But every little bit can add up over the long haul.

5 Foods to Accelerate Your Weight Loss (Fat Loss)

1. Broccoli

Broccoli is high in fiber, low in calories, and it's satiating.

You can have a ton of broccoli and still be eating very few calories and be very full by the end of it.

The other thing I like about broccoli is it’s versatile. 

There are many different ways you can prepare it.

Most of the time, I simply drizzle some olive oil or avocado oil over it, crack some Himalayan pink salt and black pepper on it and let it roast in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

2. Spinach

Spinach is high in insoluble fiber.

In a cup of spinach there is around 6g of fiber and 5 of which is insoluble fiber. 

Therefore you are not digesting the entire number of calories that you are actually putting in your mouth.

And once again, you can eat a ton of it because it's really low in calories.

One of the biggest reasons I put it on this list is because it’s easy to prepare and versatile.

You can do any kind of salad you’d like with spinach; you can get creative with all kinds of taco bowls or taco salads with spinach; you can put it on sandwiches.

There are a lot of ways you can use spinach and never get tired of the same meal.

3. Chicken (Pasture-Raised Organic)

Chicken is a low calorie protein that is very satiating.

If you eat a full chicken breast, you know you’re not going to be needing a ton of food outside of that.

And again there are so many ways to prepare chicken differently each time.

You can grill it, bake it, shred it, put it in a crockpot, etc.

You can flavor it many different ways. You can make it barbecue, asian, buffalo, etc.

4. Grass-Fed Beef

Grass-fed beef is one of my favorite sources of protein.

Beef is very satiating and, once again, is very versatile.

You can do taco salads, burgers, steaks, beef sticks, etc.

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5. Potatoes

NOT FRENCH FRIES.
Actual potatoes.

This can be a regular white potato, sweet potatoes, Japanese sweet potatoes, red potatoes, or purple potatoes.

Be sure to keep the skin on the potato for the fiber.

And talk about satiating…

If you eat a full baked potato, or you have a cup of diced potatoes, they will fill you up quickly.

I like keeping it simple when I prepare potatoes.

 I usually dice up whatever kind of potato I’m having, drizzle a little olive oil or avocado oil on them, then add Himalayan pink salt and pepper and then stick them in the oven at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes, and boom, absolutely delicious.

Conclusion: (not ranked in order from best to worst; just a list)

 1. Broccoli
 2. Spinach
 3. Chicken
 4. Grass-Fed Beef
 5. Potatoes

If you can make these 5 foods a more consistent part of your diet (lifestyle), then you’re going to start to see much better results on your weight loss (fat loss) journey.

These foods will prevent you from overeating, they’ll keep your gut healthy, and they’ll allow your body to burn more calories while digesting them.

To getting leaner, stronger, and more confident,

Nick

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