Can fruit salad help your weight loss goals? It sure can! But on the other hand, using the wrong combination of fruits, can backfire on you and keep your weight at a standstill. Weight loss on any diet, including a diet hight in fruit consumption, primarily occurs when you burn more calories than you consume.
We’ve found one of the best fruit salad recipes for weight loss that can help you lose 1-2 pounds a week! Many people even claim to have lost their first 10 pounds in just 3 weeks eating a fruit salad like this every week.
Not only is weight loss an attribute of this diet, it also gives your digestive system a break from consuming processed foods. This helps to detox the body and boost fat burning.
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So if you’re ready to lose weight, while eating something sweet and tasty, take a look below:
The Fat-Burning Fruit Salad
Ingredients:
3 cups chopped watermelon
1 can of peaches in 100% juice
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1 can pineapples in 100% juice
1 cup chopped strawberries
1 cup grapes
1 1/2 cups blueberries
2 Tbsp lemon juice
Directions:
Simply add all the ingredients except the peaches, pineapples, and lemon juice. When adding the peaches and pineapple, drain off about half of the juice in a separate container. You don’t need it for this recipe. Then, add the lemon juice last and toss.
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Now for the good part. Here’s why this works to burn off excess pounds:
Watermelon
Eating less to lose weight isn’t easy if you’re always hungry — the key is to eat foods that help you feel full for longer. Watermelon is a good candidate for prolonging fullness. Each wedge has five percent of the daily recommended intake for fiber, which slows digestion and promotes satiety.
Blueberries
Blueberry is a fruit that helps you lose belly fat by taking advantage of its built-in health benefits, such as the positive effect its antioxidants such as anthocyanin have on your body, vitamin C to keep your immune system strong, and vitamin E for anti-aging. Blueberry antioxidants have been linked to the banishing of belly fat, heart disease, and diabetes.
Strawberries
Strawberries can help promote weight loss in three ways: (1) They increase the body’s production of a hormone that stimulates your metabolism and suppresses your appetite. (2) They can slow the rate of digestion of starchy foods. This helps control the rise in blood sugar that follows a starchy meal. This is a key benefit for those with adult-onset Type 2 diabetes. (3) Strawberries also can help your weight-reducing hormones function properly.
Pineapples
Pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain, which helps your body digest protein. Consuming pineapple — or supplemental bromelain — may help people who lack digestive enzymes digest foods and fats better.
Lemon
Excellent liver detoxifiers, lemons also alkalize our body. They may seem acidic based on taste but in the process of being metabolized by the body, they actually alkalize our bodily fluids and tissues. Maintaining the health of the liver is also imperative to the body’s ability to digest and burn fat, since the liver is one of the organs responsible for these functions.
Fruit Salad Topping
- If you want to add any topping to your fruit salad, try adding extra lemon juice to help it oxidize quickly.
- Some people also add a cold-pressed olive oil, this is for enhancing vitamin absorption. Fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E & K are easily absorbed in the presence of some fat in the meal.
- However, you should be cautious with oils, ONLY use healthy oils that are cold-pressed whenever possible!
SIDE NOTE: You may want to eat a banana about 30 minutes after this salad to jumpstart your body into moving its bowels even better!
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