Cooking tips for weight loss
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Dec 6, 2018
- 2 min read
Cooking at Home for Weight Loss:
Cooking at home and preparing your healthy meals is a good idea for reaching goals and weight loss. Learning how to cook healthy and at the same tie delicious meals encourage a patient to remain on track. In addition, it is cost saving. And finally, its helpful in building a healthy lifestyle.
Some tips that are helpful even its not in the range of weight loss are keeping berries dry without washing to extend shelf life and peeling of banana to freeze them it is also helpful in terms of storage space. Even if you're not trying to lose weight, these smart tricks will save you time and money.
Tips to cook with less fat and fewer calories:
Replacing food that is high in calories with low caloric food but nutritional dense is a good idea to eat low-calorie food. For example, if you like creamy broccoli soup you can replace it with beans as it gives the same consistency and its rich in fiber that makes you full for longer period. So in order to lose weight you should try substitute strategies by which you can replace caloric dense food with nutrient dense food.
How to cook healthy meals for the whole week?
Write down on a paper what your menu is going to be for the next seven days.
In addition of ingredients needed, and substitutions of unhealthy choices. Finally, storage of leftover to be consumed in the next days.
Healthy breakfast:
Always start your day with high fiber meals that are very helpful to keep your diet under control. In addition, it decreases hunger sensation and extends fullness one. Fiber is the bulking agent that take up space in your stomach. For example, let your breakfast be oatmeal with skimmed milk and a cup of strawberries and nuts.
Healthy lunch:
Salad and protein is a great idea for lunch while it is also healthy and keep your choices away from fast food. Tuna salad is healthy one yet delicious. It boosts your body with enough energy.
Healthy dinner:
Light dinner is very important to avoid night fullness. So going to a roasted salmon with steamed broccoli and carrots is a good idea for dinner and it is highly packed with protein.
Make healthy ingredients in your blender:
Trying to make the healthy smoothie that is packed with energy and highly beneficial fruits or vegetables is very helpful in weight management.

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