4. Keep a stash. When you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Having a freezer full of veggies makes healthy eating choices easy breezy! Do we really need to list the benefits of eating your greens on the daily?
5. Reduce your meat intake. According to a 2013 study published in the American Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, vegetarians are for the most part, thinner and healthier than meat-eaters. While we love our steak and eggs, substituting a form of plant protein – for example black beans – during a meal can do wonders for your waistline.
6. Got milk? Research shows that dairy, loaded with calcium and vitamin D, helps build muscle and boosts your metabolism, which in turn… burns fat!
7. Don’t overdo it! While protein is certainly is essential to good health, don’t overdo it. Because your body needs more time to digest protein, excess gets stored as fat. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is a modest 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. That’s about 46 grams of protein a day and 56 grams for men.
8. Beware of the booze. A single serving of beer, wine, or spirits clocks in at about 125 calories. Not only that, but a recent study published in Obesity revealed that alcohol makes women’s brains more sensitive to the smell of food, leading them to eat more.