Sunday, August 15, 2010

Grocery Shopping for Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight or just a few inches off your mid section, it all starts at the grocery store.  Look in your refrigerator and pantry right now.  What foods do you see?  Muffins, Fruity Pebbles, tortillas, rice crispy treats?  If so, you need to change the way you buy groceries if you want to change the way you look in the mirror.  Wives, how many times have you asked your husbands if you're still pretty or if you look fat in something?  When you already know you look good and you already feel good about the way you look, you don't need to ask those questions anymore.  Guys, get a measuring tape out for this one - how many inches does your gut hang over your waste line when you're sitting down?  Now, ask your wife how much she likes how that looks.

Listen, weight loss and fat loss isn't rocket science.  It's just math mixed with common sense.  So, in this artice, let's talk about changing your shopping patterns to something that will subtract inches instead of adding them.  If you buy groceries from this shopping list instead of the junk you're used to buying, you will lose weight.  Here it goes.

Fruit:  Apples, Bananas, Strawberries, Rasberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Pears, Grapes, Oranges, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, Kiwi

Vegetables:  You don't need a list here.  Eat your vegetables.  Skip the potatoes.  No, you can't fry them.

Breads:  Whole-Grain / Whole-Wheat / Multi-Grain Breads.  Absolutely no White Breads.

Cereal:  High Fiber, Bran Cereals.  Bran Flakes, Raisin Bran, etc.  If you can't stomach healthy cereals, don't eat cereal at all.

Rice & Pasta:  Brown Rice, Wild Rice, Whole-Wheat Pasta

Dairy:  Skim / Fat-Free Milk, Low-Fat Yogurt, Fat-Free Yogurt.

Meat:  Lean Beef, Fish, Chicken, Tuna, Turkey.  Sorry - ribeye's good, but it won't make this list.

Snacks: Natural Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Almonds, Cashews, Sunflower Seeds, Other Nuts, Whey Protein

Other Foods: Eggs (not fried), Beans (not refried), Oatmeal (no sugar), Olive Oil, Avocados, Garlic

Juice:  No High Fructose Corn Syrup.  Read the labels.  Never buy juice with this ingredient.  With that said, drink Apple Juice, Orange Juice, Grapefruit Juice, Cranberry Juice, Pineapple Juice, V8 Juice.  All juices must be 100% Fruit Juices.

Now, if you're going to count calories, get your calories from this list.  If you're like a lot of people and counting calories isn't for you, eating from this list will still change your life.  Not only will you look and feel better, but it also has the added benefit of making you healthier so you can live longer.

To lose weight and lose inches, change the way you buy groceries.

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