Easy Fatloss Tips

http://easy-fat-loss-tips.blogspot.com/ The one rule of fat loss is to consume fewer calories than you burn. A strange habit I've established that's related to this, and that's helped me keep 25 pounds off, is to eat a salad for my evening meal.

I've seen people eat salad-meals at lunchtime. At the work cafeteria they'll go to the salad bar instead of the hot food line. I did this myself for several years but I didn't really lose much weight.

Then I learned that it's a good idea to avoid starchy carbs late in the day. The reason is your body slows down at night, so excess heavy calories eaten late more easily turn to fat.

I've never been a big fan of eating vegetables and so on. But I found that throwing all that stuff into a salad actually tastes pretty good.

What I do at least several days a week is make a healthy salad using whatever veggies, fruit, and lean meat I can find in the fridge. And that's what I eat instead of a heavy evening meal.

I'm a creature of habit, so my salads always look very similar. I find something I like, and I tend to stick with it. What I include in my salads is usually:

• Lettuce, or sometimes fresh spinach
• Peanuts, unsalted
• Raisins, or Cranberry-raisins
• Apple slices
• Tuna or Salmon from a can or packet
• Lean ham or turkey, sliced
• Cottage cheese, low-fat
• Tomato slices
• Crushed red pepper seasoning
• Orange slices, mandarin or clementine (easy-peel)
• Cucumber slices
• Red beans, or other types of beans, from a can
• Broccoli, raw
• Onion, chopped white or red
• Carrot slices

My salad dressing is always the same, oil & vinegar. I pre-mix white vinegar with a little powdered garlic in one bottle. And I have a separate bottle of extra-virgin olive oil. Sometimes I put a few drops of lime juice on the salad as well.

I keep things under control by making my salad in the actual bowl I will be eating out of. (I don't plate my salads.) I found that if I make the salad in a big salad mixing bowl, I end up with twice as much as I need. Making it in the same bowl you eat out of is a simple method of portion control.

Now, this kind of salad may not appeal to you. But I like it, and it only takes me about 10 minutes to make. My point is you can develop your own healthy salad, or a few variations of salad, that you'd like to eat.

Instead of filling my belly with heavy meat and carbs at night like I used to, I'm filling up on roughage. Not only is very little of the salad stored as fat, it also provides me several servings of healthy fiber and vegetables that I probably wouldn't get otherwise.

So if you want to try an experiment, have a salad in place of your normal "meat and potatoes" meal every evening for the next couple of weeks, while keeping your other meals the same. I bet you'll drop a few pounds!

Even if you don't try this, make sure your dinner is the smallest meal of the day. You'll lose more fat that way