Diets are not exactly the right way to lose weight, but help you to improve your eating habits, let you know more about the useful ingredients in foods, understand better how your metabolism works.Often that is more useful rather than thinking what your next diet would be. Here are some foods that can boost up your metabolism:
Grapefruit – this fruit lowers the insulin levels in your body that trigger your system to store fat.It is rich in fiber, and your body must burn extra calories in order to break it down.
Green tea - this healthy catechin speeds up your brain and nervous system, causing your body to burn the calories.
Yogurt - the high levels of protein in natural yogurt require a lot of energy to be processed. The pro-biotic cultures found in yogurt help regulate your digestive tract.
Apple – high energy booster; contain low number of calories, an apple before meal will help your stomach and in addition you’ll eat less.
Spinach - great source of antioxidants, magnesium, iron, pottasium and Vitamin C.
Broccoli – contains very effective metabolism – boosting team of nutrients : calcium and Vitamin C. Calcium acts like as a metabolic
trigger, while Vitamin C help you to absorb more calcium. These are just a short sample of the most important foods that you have to include in your daily menu. Any of these foods when used in good amounts can be much more effective than any diet. The rules are very simple: eat any of these foods combined with a cup of water before meal. Here you can find a short list of the more famous and commonly used diets.
3-day moon diet - The three day moon diet is a liquid diet, related to the phase of the moon once a month. It is best to do it at full moon, but its ok at other lunar phase, too. In these three day you have to drink a lot water and freshly squeezed juices. Coffee is not recommended. You can drink herbal or mint tea and hot water with lemon. This is an example for one of the days menu:
morning – yogurt and an orange or apple, breakfast – orange juice and yogurt, lunch – only a cup of vegetable juice
afternoon – herbal tea with honey, dinner – a cup of citrus juice
before sleep – herbal tea with honey.
Grapefruit diet: This diet is based on the fact that grapefruit has fat burning abilities. There is a simple rule here – eat one or two grapefruits 10 minutes before meal, you can also drink a cup of water. It would be better if the water is warmed up. The consumption of vegetables is encouraged and you can prepare them in generous amounts, in salads or not, you have to consume them just before meal. You can test it for a week or more. You can also make this simple strategy regularly.
Cabbage Soup diet: The cabbage soup is a low – fat, high – fiber and can help you get into shape very fast. It’s best to have it as a plan for about 6 or 7 days. After a week or two you can start it again.
Salad diet – Salads are a great way to add more vegetables in your diet. You can start your meal with a salad or even replace a meal, while starting with salad before meal can be practiced every day, eating salad instead of the meal is not recommended for more than 2 weeks. Using much salt is not a wise decision at all, also be sure that you use olive oil to prepare your salads with instead of simple cooking oil. Popular salads are carrot, spinach and bean, tomato asparagus salad, fruit salads, roasted red pepper and potatoes and many more.
