Making a meal plan, shopping, and prepping your breakfast, lunch, and dinner is clutch for weight loss. Problem is, it can be super overwhelming.
So to lighten your load, we’ve come up with a list of five weight-loss friendly foods that will help get you to your goals in a flash and crazy-easy recipes you can nom all week long. Let’s do this:
1. Leeks
At a scant 54 calories a cup, these mild-flavored onions (no crying here!) are teeming with prebiotic fiber, which can help fuel the good bacteria in your gut.
2. Lamb Lollipops
This tender meat can be high in fat, but it may also help burn fat, thanks to conjugated linoleic acid. Lamb contains about five times as much CLA as beef.
3. Fresh Rosemary
Like all herbs, it adds flavor for few calories, but it’s also got carnosic acid, which early research indicates may slow digestion so you feel full longer.
4. Asparagus
These woody spears are rich in inulin, a type of soluble fiber that research has shown makes food much more filling. That’s well worth funny-smelling pee.
5. Dried Apricots
Potassium-packed foods like these may be key to a humming metabolism. People who downed the most of the mineral had the greatest lean muscle mass.
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