When folks decide to lose weight by going on a diet, they often find that they're constantly dealing with hunger, threatening to force them off the diet.
To lose weight, your daily expenditure of calories must exceed your intake.
But how can you avoid those gnawing hunger pangs all day long without binging? These filling foods are all low-calorie, and they should help you through the day without hunger pangs or overeating.
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Fish - 150 to 200 Calories / Serving Count on fish to do a good job of filling you up while providing a nutritious, low-calorie meal.
Of all the meats available to you during a diet (or anytime!), fish is the most filling.
Fish also have fewer calories per ounce than other meats like chicken, pork or beef.
You still have to eat responsibly, of course.
Fish and ships, for example, is not a healthy option when you're on a weight loss diet.
The breading and batters that are used when frying fish add appreciably to the calorie count of fish, and should be avoided.
For a hot meal, cook fish by broiling, baking or grilling it, with a minimum of added fat.
A delicious cold alternative is a health light salad sprinkled with bits of cooked or canned tuna or salmon.
Added flavor is easily obtained from the judicious use of spices and seasonings.
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Oranges and Apples - About 40 Calories / Serving This may seem like a surprising choice - fruits aren't generally thought of as low-calorie, filling foods.
Fruit isn't usually a dieter's first choice when they feel hungry.
Low in calories, high in nutrients, vitamins and dietary fiber, these natural foods are excellent snacks for all, not just dieters.
Dieters looking for a low-calorie, filling snack should choose round fruits because they carry about half the calories of non-round fruits like bananas while making you feel just as foll.
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Grapes - 50 Calories / Serving Grapes are excellent snacks in a weight loss diet for the same reasons as apples and oranges.
A great deal of fiber is concentrated into a compact, bite-sized form.
Excellent snacks all day long, grapes will do a much better job of keeping you feeling comfortably full than, say, a candy bar full of processed sweeteners.
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Whole Wheat Pasta - 300 Calories / Serving Hungry people crave pasta! Don't misunderstand - this isn't an invitation to binge out on mac and cheese or stuffed shells.
For one thing, I'm talking about whole wheat pasta, which will leave you feeling much more satisfied than the processed white pasta most commonly available.
Whole wheat pasta is more healthful because it hasn't had so many of its nutrients processed out, which is the case with white pasta.
Whole wheat pasta also has more dietary fiber.
Because overeating pasta is so easy to do, it's critical that you watch serving sizes.
To fill up and feel comfortable until your next meal, try a portion of pasta about the size of your fist.
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Steak - 300 Calories / Serving Yes, this really is an article about low-calorie, filling, nutritious food! There's nothing wrong with steak as an occasional component of a nutritious weight-loss diet.
What is wrong is the habit some people have of smothering a steak in sauces that are high in calories.
Atkins Diet devotees have long been aware of this.
Frankly, steak is one of the best meats available for a weight loss diet, second only to fish in terms of its desirability as a weight-loss food.
Lean cuts of beef, of course, are preferable because you will reduce your fat intake.
Controlling the size of your servings, of course, is crucial to the success of using low-calorie foods like these.
You'll feel full faster, and the feeling of fullness will lat longer, with these delicious low-calorie foods, but be careful - resist the temptation to have seconds and thirds! And of course, from time to time it's alright to eat other foods as well.
You should always keep control over your portion sizes, though.
Soon, instead of always wearing the shape-concealing clothing, you'll be looking for excuses to strip down and let people see the slim, trim new you!