Diet Food

Diet food is an excellent source to maintain a good shape of body and beautiful skin. Dieters or the people who are on diet can have more than sufficient options available to eat. You can eat the delicious diet food that tastes great and also helps you to lose the weight.

Dieting can be difficult but not impossible. For the proper diet, you just need to sacrifice some of your favorite food items. There are thousands of diet foods that are healthy, tasty and literally helps to get stuck to the weight loss plan. You can visit to any grocery store to witness the explosion of lower-calorie, lower-fat or portion-controlled options.

Following are simple but amazing and best foods for dieters:

1. Calorie-Controlled Snacks:

There are many people who buy 100-calorie (more or less) snack packs of everything from chips to cupcakes but are they really the answer for weight loss?

Carolyn O’Neil, RD, The author of ‘The Dish on Eating Healthy and Being Fabulous’, has expressed her views that she likes the calorie-controlled packages, it’s because they eliminates the chances for mindless overeating. “Foods packaged in 100-calorie packs do the work and calories math for you so that you can enjoy the snacking on foods that need to be enjoyed in limited amounts.

Quaker Mini Delights (90 calories) and Hostess 100-calorie cupcakes are among the more addictive options. But Lona Sandon, MEd, RD, says that though these snacks can satisfy a sweet tooth, “many of them won’t fill you up for very long and can’t replace a more nutritious snack.”

Sandon has suggested that, check the ingredients list and mentioned nutritional facts on the packages. “Look for the products that offers some nutritious benefits, such as the food items that contains less than 3 grams fat, less than 140 milligrams sodium, 15 grams or less sugar and are made from whole grain with about 2 to 3 grams fiber and about 7 grams protein,” says Sandon, assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

2. Healthier Fast Food:

Fast food restaurants do not have to spell disaster for dieters. Try Quiznos’ Flat bread Sammies without cheese or dressing (all less than 250 calories,except the Italiano) or a small Honey Bourbon Chicken sub (275 calories); Taco Bell’s Fresco-style items (less than 180 calories); McDonald’s Southwest salad with grilled chicken (290 calories without dressing); or any of Subway’s subs with 6 grams of fat or less (230-380 calories).

3. Low-Fat and Fat-Free Dairy Products:

Milk, yogurt (solid, frozen, and drinkable), cheese, sour cream and cream cheese are available in lower-fat varieties that offer both healthy nutrients and great taste. Laughing Cow light cheese has only 35 calories per individually wrapped wedge and Yoplait Fiber One nonfat yogurt combines yogurt crunchy cereal for a fiber boost and only 50-80 calories per 4 oz. cup.

Fat-free half-and-half is a suitable substitute for heavy cream with a fraction of the calories. The lower-fat and fat-free cream cheese and sour cream can easily pitch-hit for their fattier counterparts, specially in recipes.”You can trim calories effortlessly if you use low-fat and lighter products and if the product is mixed in with other ingredients, no one will ever notice,” says Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, and the “Recipe Doctor” for WebMD and a WebMD blogger.