4 Ingredients Of A Get Skinny Dinner

For many people, achieving weight loss is all about what you don't eat — specifically, cutting out extra calories and low-nutrition foods that do nothing but increase your weight and store more fat around your waist. Dieters shouldn't just decide what to stop consuming, however, but also what they can actively add to their daily meal plans to increase the quality of their nutrition and maximize their weight loss. What do you need to know about your ideal Get Skinny dinner?

Dieting Meal Basics

Everyone knows the importance of a good diet when it comes to general health. What you put in really is what you get out. Feed your body junk and you’ll feel rubbish and perform poorly, but give it the right nutrients (in the right quantities) from healthy foods, and you’ll feel great and function at your best. The most profound truths often stare you right in the face, after all.
 

Protein helps to preserve lean muscle tissue, which is vital if you want to look lean and defined, and avoid the “skinny fat” look. Not only that, but it plays a vital role in regulating your metabolism, and keeping your calorie burning up. It’s also important for hormone production, and recovery. If you don’t eat enough protein, you’ll ache and feel sore after workouts. You'll also feel hungry again really soon, and feel the need to binge on junk.

 

 

Finally, protein is thermogenic. This means that eating protein makes you burn more calories. Protein takes longer to digest than fats and carbohdydrates, making the digestion process longer, and thus taking more effort to break it down, hence the higher calorie expenditure.

Fill a third of your plate with protein from meat and fish, eggs, or dairy products like cottage cheese and Greek yogurt.

2. Vegetables

Next up are vegetables.

The main benefit that vegetables provide is that they’re very low in calories, yet extremely filling. You can eat a huge volume of them, and not really make much of a dent in your calorie allowance, yet feel very full. Plus, the calories that they do contain are mostly fiber, which aids digestion, helps prevent certain diseases and cancers, and like protein has thermogenic properties.

Stick to green, white and brightly colored vegetables. Broccoli, spinach, kale, cucumber, peppers, carrot, onion, mushrooms, asparagus and lettuce are all good choices, although you should use your imagination, and try to find as wide a variety as possible.

Fill one third of your plate with vegetables. If you’re not a fan of vegetables, then you can add in some low sugar fruits, like blueberries, blackberries, melon or raspberries instead.

3. Fat

Fat has been given a very unfair rap in recent years, and contrary to what you might think, doesn’t directly make you fat.

We need fats for hormone production, energy and general health. Avoid trans fats found in margarines, pastries and junk food, and focus instead on good quality fats from olive oil, nuts and nut butters, avocado, coconut, full fat organic dairy products, good quality red meat and oily fish.

Around one sixth of your dinner should be a fat source.

4. Carbs

The final ingredient is carbohydrates. In some ways, carbs have been given a similar reputation to fats, and many people think you have to eradicate them to get skinny, but this isn’t the case. Likewise, some base their whole diets around high carb foods thinking that they need them for energy, and end up not losing any weight. A more balanced approach is far better.

Fill the final sixth of your plate with carbs. Ideally these should be slow-digesting carbs with a low glycemic index. The best options are ones that are also high in vitamins and minerals, such as sweet potatoes, lentils, chickpeas, different types of beans, corn and peas. However if you want starchier carbs in the form of grains, like rice, pasta or bread, then provided you don’t overdo the quantities, that’s fine too.

There are your 4 Ingredients of a Get Skinny Dinner. It’s really quite simple to put together some great tasting, diet friendly dinners that will give you the weight loss results you want, and have you looking great. Stick to the guidelines, control your calories, and avoid junk food, and you’ll be looking fabulous in no time.