If you are looking to keep your weight under control, you need to make sure you increase the amount of fiber that you eat. One of the biggest advantages of eating fiber is that it fills you up a lot better than most other foods, so you always wind up eating fewer calories without even realizing it. Fiber also slows how fast glucose enters your bloodstream.  This makes your blood sugar stay at more even levels, which means that it makes the foods you eat less likely to turn into fat.  Fortunately, it is remarkably easy to get a bit of extra of fiber in your diet.

Add Veggies to Your Morning Eggs - Eggs are a fantastic source of protein. In fact, if you remove the yolks, thereby removing much of the saturated fact, you would be hard pressed to find a better source of essential amino acids. But they can be rather plain tasting by themselves.  If you want to give your eggs a serious boost in both flavor and nutritional value, mix some chopped vegetables into them.  Adding diced onion, bell pepper, and jalapenos can give you a lot more vitamins and antioxidants, but also an extra boost of fiber.

Eat Fruit Instead of Drinking Juice – Even though fruit juice comes from fruit, juice by itself isn’t all that healthy for you. By processing fruit, you remove all of the pulp, which is where most of the antioxidants and all of the fiber lies, and all you have left, essentially, is sugar, a few scarce vitamins, and water.  If you really want to enjoy all of the health benefits of fruit, make sure that you eat it whole. In an apple, for example, the majority of the fiber lies in the skin.  With skin, it has three grams of fiber, without it, it has significantly less.

Eat Oatmeal Instead of Cereal – Oatmeal is one of the best high fiber foods you can eat.  But you should try to make certain that the oatmeal you eat is of the kind you boil, not the kind that comes in packets and is microwaved. Those kinds are typically packed with a lot of excess sugar and don’t contain as much fiber as boiled oatmeal. If you want to add a bit more flavor to your oatmeal try, throwing in some cinnamon and diced apples. Cinnamon won’t just boost the flavor; it also has a regulatory effect on glucose, which can lead to less body fat.

Switch to Whole Grains - For every “white” food there is a whole grain alternative.  If you like to have spaghetti for dinner, try switching to whole wheat spaghetti instead.  If you have a sandwich for lunch, make sure that the bread is made from whole grains.  These little changes can give you an extra dose fiber, and you don’t even have to really change how you eat in order to get it. You just have to make a few ingredient substitutions.

OC resident Christopher McCombs runs the fitness program Personal Trainer Irvine. Chris is also a sought after personal training marketing expert

Return to homepage by clicking  here: Easierwayz Weight Loss