LOSE WEIGHT BY EATING MORE!

When you're "on a diet" it can be so depressing to see the tiny amount of cheese you are allowed, or to force yourself to stop at 1 biscuit!
By changing many of the foods that you regularly eat to ones that are LOW ENERGY DENSE you can eat bigger portions, feel less hungry and not have to rely on willpower to lose weight.
Energy density is a way of measuring how many calories food has in relation to its volume. High energy dense foods are ones such as chocolate and pastries - just a sniff and you feel the pounds piling on!
Low energy dense foods are mainly fruit and vegetables. They contain a relatively high amount of WATER, FIBRE and AIR. Take cucumber and celery - they have a very high WATER content and it's thought that you use up more calories digesting the food than they actually contain! FIBRE is not digested, it passes through the body so it's 'calorie free'! Vegetables, beans and pulses are high in FIBRE.
AIR is also calorie free, so how about popcorn as a great healthy snack - no salt, sugar or butter though!
Other great low energy density swaps are baked white fish for steak, porridge oats for cornflakes, rice cakes for bread and cottage cheese for hard cheese.
You can eat more of the healthy swap so it looks like you have plenty of food on your plate!

Happy eating!

Bev