Lose Weight With No Sweat

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Lose Weight With No Sweat

Thursday, August 9th, 2007 by www Subscribe To My Feed

A major reason for becoming overweight is that we eat meal portions that are too large.

Here’s a way to not worry about portion control at a meal. Eating a salad at the beginning of a meal may cause you to eat less food and thus cut calories without feeling deprived.

In a recent study, women were given a low, medium, and high calorie salad..

As compared to women who had no salad at all before a meal, the women who first had a “low calorie” large salad ended up consuming 12% fewer calories for the whole meal. Women who first ate a small low calorie salad consumed 7% fewer calories for the entire meal.

In contrast, those women who had a large high-calorie salad (lots of cheese and salad dressing) actually ended up eating 17% more calories in the meal than the women who ate no salad at all.

This study suggests that if you have a good-sized low-calorie garden salad before a meal, you will consume substantially fewer calories for the total meal.

You may be pleasantly surprised to find that even though it feels like you’re eating a lot of food, you’ll actually be reducing your total calorie intake. The study suggests a 12% reduction in calories is possible, which is quite significant.

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