Wedding Diet Food | Food for Weight Loss 3

This is Part Three in the Bridal Weight Loss Nutritional Tips Series (Foods for Weight Loss). Please click for Part One and Part Two.

These tips will most helpful to brides-to-be working on losing a few pounds before their wedding day. In fact, continuing to use their bridal weight loss nutrition tips even after your wedding will ensure that you maintain your ideal weight!

11) Using Tomatoes for Bridal Weight Loss

This fruit contains vitamin C and citrimalicoxalic acids, which revs up one's metabolism.

Tomatoes also help the kidneys remove large quantities of fatty deposits.

To top it all off, these fruits only contain 32 calories, and are an excellent source of dietary fiber, which improves digestive health and encourages weight loss.

To incorporate tomatoes into your wedding weight loss diet plan, simply add them to your salad. Or make tomato soup.

12) Using Cayenne Pepper for Bridal Weight Loss

This particular pepper can curb one's appetite and increase one's metabolism by 20 per cent.

Moreover, the main ingredient in cayenne pepper - the capsaicin - helps the inhibition of fat cell growth and reduces hunger.

To incorporate tomatoes into your wedding weight loss diet plan, you can add them into stir-fries, or in creamy potato gratin.

13) Using Horseradish for Bridal Weight Loss

The benefits of this little-used ingredient should not be underestimated. Not only is it very low in the calorie-counter department - just 6 per teaspoon, it also can dissolve the fat inside your cells. Coming from the same family as wasabi, it has a spicy taste, which has been proven to curb appetites.

To incorporate tomatoes into your wedding weight loss diet plan, try smearing it across your steak sandwich, or scooping a bunch of it onto your fish pie.

However, do note that people with stomach disorders should avoid consuming it. Due to its overpowering flavor, it can sometimes upset your stomach.

The above is Part Three in the Bridal Weight Loss Nutritional Tips Series (Foods for Weight Loss). Please click for Part One and Part Two.

Wedding Diet Food | Food for Weight Loss 2

This is Part Two in the Bridal Weight Loss Nutritional Tips Series (Foods for Weight Loss). For Part One in the series, please click here.

These tips will most helpful to brides-to-be working on losing a few pounds before their wedding day. In fact, continuing to use their bridal weight loss nutrition tips even after your wedding will ensure that you maintain your ideal weight!

6) Using Cinnamon for Bridal Weight Loss

Cinnamon not only significantly reduces one's blood glucose level and "bad" cholesterol, but it also increases one's ability to metabolize sugar. Moreover, it is high in iron and manganese - two essential components of a balanced diet.

A natural, sugar-free way of enhancing flavor would be to sprinkle cinnamon on sliced apples, oatmeal or wholegrain toast. Alternatively, you could replace cinnamon for sugar in your cappuccino, or use it to roast your beef.

7) Using Mustard for Bridal Weight Loss

Despite mustard ranking way above mayonnaise, ketchup and barbecue sauce for weight loss, it is often underused.

Mustard contains isothiocynates, which dilates blood vessels and increases levels of fat-burning hormone ephedrine. These boost your metabolism level, thus helping you burn off fats. Moreover, mustard is anti-inflammatory, meaning that it sends unhealthy fats, sugar and high fructose corn syrup away.

To incorporate into your wedding weight loss diet plan, make mustard bacon sandwiches or mix a dollop of it into your shepherd's pie.

8) Using Vinegar for Bridal Weight Loss

Vinegar slows the rate at which the stomach empties, thus controlling the rise in blood glucose and insulin after meals. Vinegar also can curb appetite. Moreover, as it contains a chemical called acetic acid - which turns on the genes that produce proteins that help the body break down fats - it can prevent fat build-up in the body.

To incorporate vinegar into your wedding weight loss diet plan, you can try adding a few tablespoons of red wine vinegar into a beef stew to tenderize the meat, or pour some balsamic vinegar into a pan of rice to make it less sticky when you serve.

9) Using Pineapple for Bridal Weight Loss

The stem and juice of pineapple contains bromelain, which helps to break down proteins and speeds up your metabolism.

It also possesses fiber, which certain studies suggest may prevent weight gain, especially around the abdomen area.

In addition, it contains vitamin C, which some say has links to increased fat metabolism. That can also mean one thing - weight loss!

One fun way to incorporate pineapples into your wedding weight loss diet plan, is to make smoothies with it! Yummy :) Pineapple can act also as a substitute for high-calorie sweets: they soothe sugar cravings, but are low in calories.

10) Using Black Pepper for Bridal Weight Loss

Black Pepper not only alleviates heartburn symptoms and indigestion, but also culls away the fats.

Piperine, found in black pepper, stimulates receptors in the brain and nervous system, allowing for more energy to be dissipated when digesting food and for more calories to be burnt off.

Freshly ground black pepper seems to have the most concentrated amounts of piperine so try to consume them as often as you can.

To incorporate black pepper into your wedding weight loss diet plan, you can spice up a chocolate brownie mixture with a couple of grinds of peppercorn.

Or add more pepper to your soup or salad the next time you consume them.

This is Part Two in the Bridal Weight Loss Nutritional Tips Series (Foods for Weight Loss). For Part One in the series, please click here.

Wedding Diet Food | Food for Weight Loss

Bridal Weight Loss Nutrition Tips

We came across these tips in Men's Health. In a men's magazine, no less. Hehe! Whoever knew that everyday items in our kitchen can actually be helpful to weight loss! These tips will most helpful to brides-to-be working on losing a few pounds before their wedding day. In fact, continuing to use their bridal weight loss nutrition tips even after your wedding will ensure that you maintain your ideal weight! How cool is that.

Read on for these fantastic bridal weight loss nutrition tips. You'll be amazed how easy incorporating these tips into your diet plan will be :)

This is the first 5 weight loss foods. We will post others in two other series.

1) Using Lemon Zest for Bridal Weight Loss

The lemon peel can be more than just flavorful. The lemon peel zest contains pectin, which is a good source of fiber, and when ingested, forms a sticky gel in the digestive system that may prevent the stomach from absorbing sugar too quickly.

To incorporate lemon into your diet, simply grate the lemon peel, mix it with oil, thyme and mustard. This mixture can be used as a marinade for ribs, or be added into cooking food dishes such as mince pies or bread and butter pudding.

Caution: Remember to wash the lemon peel well and remove the wax and residue before consuming it.

2) Using Celery for Bridal Weight Loss

Celery is a vegetable that is high in fiber, and helps to keep the urge to snack at bay.

Celery also contains calcium, and this helps bind up waste fats and remove them from the body.

Scientific evidence shows that if one has a low-calorie, celery-based snack once a day, one can actually lose weight more quickly than if one doesn't snack at all.

Celery can be an acquired taste. But eating celery raw, by chewing on them helps burn calories. The calories you burn when you chew and digest celery is equal to the amount of calories it contains, meaning that it is technically a calorie-neutral food!

If this is not appetizing, then you could try dipping them in fat-free Italian salad dressing or taking it with salsa if you prefer not having them plain. Or could try celery chopped up with fresh tomatoes and basil.

3) Using Grapefruit for Bridal Weight Loss

Studies have shows that incorporating grapefruit into your daily diet for 12 weeks can help you lose 1.4kg. The chemicals in this fruit can reduce insulin levels, thus promoting weight loss. And you won't be putting on the pounds eating them - half a grapefruit contains a meager 39 calories.

You could consider spreading a generous amount of this on your steaks or chops. Also, you could blend the juice with olive oil, coriander and pepper for a sea bass marinade.

Alternatively, if you're a huge grapefruit fan, you can try eating half of the fruit before meals.

4) Using Beans for Bridal Weight Loss

However small, these beans are loaded with fiber which double your levels of the hormone cholecystokinin, thus helping you satiate your appetite. Moreover, the fiber facilitates the movement within your bowel and digestive tract. The special thing about these fibers is that they cannot be digested. Hence, it simply goes through the body, attaches itself to proteins and fats, and gets rid of them.

To incorporate beans into your wedding diet plan, take baked beans, which are about 236 calories per cup. Other beans you can consider in your cooking would be mung beans, which carries 189 calories per cup, or pinto beans, offering 206 calories per cup.

5) Using Tumeric for Bridal Weight Loss

Tumeric is used often in Indian (and Thai) cooking. Cucumin, an active ingredient in tumeric, helps burn fats and aids digestion by breaking down protein-rich foods.

Moreover, according to naturopathic practitioner Xandria Williams, this spice can help in the detoxification of the liver, which she claims is the body's most important fat-burning organ - good news for our waistbands!

To incorporate tumeric into your wedding diet plan, throw tumeric into curries, or sprinkle it over your meat, fish or vegetables during preparation. Or sprinkle a bit of tumeric into pot of water when cooking rice. The tumeric will add a lovely fragrant smellto the rice, and you gain the benefits too.

For a snack, perhaps you could try mixing this spice with ginger, garlic and cumin and yogurt for a spicy dip.

The above is Part One in the Bridal Weight Loss Nutritional Tips Series (Foods for Weight Loss). For Part Two in the series, please click here.