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Never a dull meal (with a diet that you can learn to love)

Never a dull meal (with a diet that you can learn to love)

A weight loss diet you never thought possible, until you try it

When you know what foods to eat that will help you to naturally lose weight while still appeasing to your taste buds, dieting becomes secondhand, like a way of life and/or lifestyle for you. If you find yourself trying to lose weight, jumping from one (fad) diet to the next without ever enjoying any of the foods that the diet prescribes much less seeing any real results from the diet, there's no need to lose faith or give up because you can and will lose weight once you learn what is good for YOU to eat (both in terms of being tasty for you as well as effective for helping you to lose weight).

Pears, like apples, are also great for losing weight

Pears, like apples, are also great for losing weight

Full of flavor and packed with phytochemicals, trace minerals and amino acids, pears are one of the world's healthiest foods that you can eat for weight loss

Pears suppress our appetite and prevent overeating

A close kin to the apple, pears are another must-have food to include in your diet.  Pears are known to be high in dietary fiber, offering us that feeling of being full and satisfied with hunger levels to the point that we don't overeat during meals or in between meals either (similar to eating bananas for losing weight).  The sweet flavor that a pear brings satisfies our hunger (and/or suppresses our appetite) and their electrolyte makeup serves to stabilize our blood sugar, giving us natural boosts in energy without the crash afterward.

Yellow watermelon fruit bowl

Yellow watermelon fruit bowl

Fruit bowl made out of watermelon shell and filled with organic yellow watermelon pieces

The Basics

  • Prep time 5 minutes 
  • Servings 3-4

Ingredients

1 whole yellow watermelon (organic if available)

What you should eat to help you to lose weight

What you should eat to help you to lose weight

Figure out the best foods for you to eat so that you can lose weight while still enjoying your diet

What's right for you to eat for optimal weight loss

When it comes to losing weight, the very 1st step is learning what specific foods are best for you to eat so that you can naturally lose the most amount of weight in as little time as possible.  With the many various (and differing) opinions from each and every diet and/or nutrition specialist out there, figuring out what it is exactly that you should eat to lose weight can be rather difficult.  To save you the trial, error and heartache, you can focus specifically on your body and your eating preferences while utilizing some basic biological and nutritional facts about your human body. 

Curbing your appetite (and losing weight) with cranberries 

Curbing your appetite (and losing weight) with cranberries 

Reach for the cranberry to help you lose weight while you naturally suppress your appetite

First things first: If it ain't working, fix it!

Whether the summer months are on the distant horizon or not, we're talking weight loss and health goals big time these days.  With an estimated 1-in-3 Americans now considered medically obese, the world is clearly in need of some proper education about healthy eating habits and lifestyle practices in general. The diet pills, fad diets and bogus workout plans are evidently still not working (nor will they ever work as is).  This is a call to consciousness, if you are tired of being overweight and are ready to make a true change in your lifestyle, you and only you can take the first step!

The ABC's for losing weight

The ABC's for losing weight

Never mind the diet pills, look to your local fruit stand for 3 common foods that can help you to naturally lose weight

Whether you're looking to lose weight for summerget fit to look as perfect as can be in to your bride's dress (and even groom's suit) for the upcoming wedding; or you just want to enhance your overall health by shedding some excess weight from your body, you can lose weight naturally by including some essential foods like apples, bananas and cherries in your diet.  And, you won't have to break your bank or look too hard as apples, bananas and cherries are rather inexpensive to buy and all three can usually be found year round at your nearby grocery store, local farmer's market or street-side fruit stand.

How Not To Die, a must read how-to for staying alive (and well)

How Not To Die, a must read how-to for staying alive (and well)

How Not To Die, the master plan prescription that navigates you to a longer, healthier life free of illness, disease and extravagant medical bills

How Not To Die: Detail & Review

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease is one of my recent (self) health and wellness book favorites!  With Dr. Greger, M.D. safely guiding you past some of the leading causes of death in America, those who take heed can steer clear of heart disease, cancers, diabetes, high blood pressure, Parkinson’s and many more deadly tolls that have been taking lives annually.  How Not To Die is literally a must read for anyone looking to stay alive and well for as long as humanly possible.  Avoid illness and disease and save money on medical bills with the help of Dr. Greger's book, How Not To Die, full of research and nutritional facts designed to show you the way to the good (i.e. healthy) life.  Similar to The China Study, this is another book that just may save your life.  Literally.