Top Foods for Fat Loss in Athletes
This is yet another underrated aspect of fat and weight loss nutrition. If you’re trying to lose weight and fat, it would be in your best interest to strive to select and eat foods that are lower in calories, and higher in volume. Examples include vegetables, fibrous fruits, lean protein, and healthy whole grains. By eating higher volume/lower calorie foods, you’ll feel fuller sooner and longer, and your odds of overeating are reduced dramatically. Just ensure you’re not adopting this technique to an extreme, and starving and neglecting other important types of nutrition (e.g. healthy fats).
FOOD DENSITY IS KEY
Density is just another way of saying to keep your food volume high as much as possible when attempting to lose weight. The stretch that is placed on stomach receptors has been shown and observed for years by successful dieters. When this happens you will receive fullness signals much sooner than if you eat something very low in density and high in calories (i.e. sushi).
The Top Fat Loss Foods
So below is going to be a brief list of foods that you should and could eat to help your weight loss efforts, regardless of who you are. They are packed with all sorts of good nutrition and satisfy this very overlooked dieting principle.
Category #1-Fruits
Grapefruit, apples, pears, and berries
Category #2-Vegetables
Note that all vegetables will work since they all carry solid volume and low calories by nature.
Category #3-Lean Proteins
Chicken, ground turkey, bison, tuna, pork chops, and New York steak on occasion
