The Top 50 Foods for Fat Fighters

[Luba]

from 'Your Guide to Weight Loss'

What gets the boot from your kitchen?...chips, cookies, regular frozen meals, fried frozen foods like fish sticks, mayo and salad dressings, ice cream, and chocolate candy.

Your kitchen virtually empty now...print out this list and head for the grocery store:

1.Fresh fruits and vegetables

Condiments
2.Reduced-fat salad dressing
3.light mayo
4.salsa
5.Butter buds
6.vinegar
7.cocktail sauce
8.reduced-sugar spread or jam
9.soy sauce

Canned Foods
10.tomato sauce
11.canned beans
12.canned vegetables
13.canned fruit
14.broth-based soups
15.tuna
16.fat-free refried beans

Protein
17.lean meats
18.chicken and turkey
19.sliced boiled ham
20.fat-free Oscar Mayer bologna
21.frozen grilled chicken pieces
22.fresh or frozen seafood
23.eggs or egg beaters
24.almonds
25.peanut butter

Dairy
26. low-fat cheese slices
27.reduced-fat sour cream
28.skim milk
29.low-fat yogurt
30.low-fat cottage cheese

Sweets and Snacks
31.hard candies
32.3 Musketeers
33.Tootsie Rolls
34.lollipops
35.Jello cups
36.low-fat granola bars
37.Pirate's Booty

Grains, Bread & Cereal
38.whole-grain, reduced sugar, and bran cereals
39."lite" white-wheat bread or whole grain bread
40.brown rice
41.whole wheat pita
42.oatmeal
43.pasta
44.whole grain crackers

Frozen foods
45.Push-ups
46.sorbet or sherbet
47.fudgesicles
48.frozen meals with 300 calories or fewer
49.frozen yogurt
50.frozen vegetables

By having these healthful, low-fat foods, you'll be ready to handle last-moment meal preparation and any cravings!

[Meanon]

Lollypops, peanut butter, jelly, fudge, butter buds (????) and Pirate's Booty (??????) not sure about those last two but they sound cool - hey THIS is the diet for me!!!!

[Merika]

37.Pirate's Booty


Yep...that with a case of beer would work for me too. I would still over eat...but think of all the exercise this would generate!

[sweetbilly]

This kind of sounded a little strange strange to me before i took Biology and Chemistry but my father used to swear on Grapefruit. He used to tell me that when ever my grandmother wanted to lose weight she would squeeze a couple of grapefruit a day and drink them, she would always lose a lot of weight too, ALOT OF WEIGHT!!!. This makes a lot of sence to me after having taken Chem and Biology. The acids in the grapefruit break down and burn the fats that water, which should break down the fats, has a hard time breaking down. Certain fats, the bad fats which make us fat the tri-fatty fats, are not easily broken down by water but the acid in grapefruit starts the process so water can do the rest. That's why they tell you to drink alot of water when on a diet.

I know they tell you to always stay away from sugar, but sugar cunsumption isn't that bad really, they only tell you to avoid it cause it pervents the fats from being broken down. It's a quantity issue really if you have more energy than you are burning in a day your body won't break down the fat stores you build up. If you eat alot of sugar the stored fats in your body can not be broken down for energy poduction cause the sugar is always being burned first, you want to destroy those fat deposits first. This is where the grapefruit really works it breaks down those fats reguardless of your sugar intake, as long as you drink enough of it.

The key foods to stay away form are the processed foods, white bread, starches, tortilla's etc... these are the worst foods we can possibly eat. Prolly why J-lo's trunk space is so big, too many tortilla's hehe. The best diet would be only eating foods high in protein and very little processed foods. But cutting out toomany fats are a bad idea too, it's very important to keep a balanced diet. Ever see a fat Chinaman? No you havn't because they don't eat the processed foods we eat, neither do the Japanese. If you cut out the processed foods you'll lose weight guarenteed, but you'll be hungry till your body readjusts! If you're hungry it's cause you are burning those fat deposits!! If you exercise you'll get rid of the hunger pains and change your metabolism, then the weight will STAY OFF for good. Almost any nutrition Dr. will tell you the same thing.

[Merika]

Life is too short to spend it eating healthy foods for a few extra years tacked on the end. I just don't want to live more years if all I can enjoy is healthy stuff and salads. :?

[sweetbilly]

I agree, eat anything you want and enjoy it. It's just i feel so much better when i eat good healthy foods and work out. I hate feeling bad all the time, plus i try to stay away from meat in the stores cause of all the steriods and crap they shoot into the animals. When you eat the meat from a steriod induced animal you are eating what ever the animal ate or had injected into it as well. My parents' friend raises pigs for us and he feeds them nothing but good natural food, nothing store bought, and man can i taste the difference!!!! It is soooo good. The freaking pork steaks are about 1 1/2 thick!!! I also hunt alot and the meat form elk and deer is soo much better than cow, not to mention it is soo much more healthy for you. Elk and deer are like 98% fat free, and they taste way better than farm raised cows.

[Duke]

Originally Posted by sweetbilly

The freaking pork steaks are about 1 1/2 thick!!! I also hunt alot and the meat form elk and deer is soo much better than cow, not to mention it is soo much more healthy for you. Elk and deer are like 98% fat free, and they taste way better than farm raised cows.

That may be so but the problem is they make a hell of a mess out of the front of my car.

[sweetbilly]

LOL the front seat of your car? Why would you have them in the front seat of your car, most states have a seatbelt law you know? hehe