Christmas Fat Loss Challenge – Day 7

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On the Seventh day of Christmas of my Fat Loss …

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Hope you swapped some sleep and did some fat burning exercise this morning!

We all associate vegetables with diets because of the low calories. In fact, eating a range of colorful vegetables does so much fat burning goodness that it’s a fat loss MUST.

Not only do they contain essential vitamins and minerals our hormones need to head in the fat burning direction but vegetables are full of fiber. Fiber is a KEY element in weight loss and vegetables have it as well as mostly being low GI to balance our insulin and mostly low in calories.

If you are screwing up your face right now I have some fantastic tips on sneaking in vegies even if you don’t like them.

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Day 7 Swap:

Dinner Side ….WITH….2 Cups Colorful Vegetables at Dinner

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How Will This Help Me Burn Fat?

Inclusion because:

• High in fiber so they fill you up, keep you full longer, help your bowels move, help reduce Ghrelin (the nasty hunger hormone) and trigger Leptin (the ‘I’m Full’ hormone).
• Fiber also reduces Estrogen and reduces Cortisol
• There are many different phytochemicals (antioxidant plant chemicals) that positively affect our metabolic hormones. By eating a wide range of colorful vegetables daily you are ensuring you are getting most of these.

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The Details

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Ewwww… But I don’t like vegetable!

I am definitely a lucky one because I LOVE vegetables… especially green! I know some people who do not eat vegetables AT ALL, besides chips if you consider that a vegetable.

This idea comes from the book ‘Deceptively Delicious’ by Jessica Seinfeld. It is actually written for Mom’s who are concerned with their children not eating vegetables. Basically it is just adding pureed vegetables into your normal meals.

Examples:

• Pureed spinach, carrot (anything!) into a bolognese sauce or lasagne
• Any pureed vegies into Chilli’s, Curry’s, Casserols and stews, Hotpots etc

For more great ideas for a more long term plan, even hiding vegetables in sweets like Chocolate cake, donuts and Cookies check out this book >> Click Here For ‘Deceptively Delicious’.
NOTE: It’s not a diet book, so it still has high sugar content in foods but she is very sugar conscious as these are really kids recipes SO if you are going to eat chocolate cake then you may as well get some fat burning vegies in there. I have the book and can highly recommend the Chocolate cake, chocolate chips cookies, blueberry oatmeal bars and oatmeal raisin cookies (amongst others )

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The Christmas Star

For those who want to take it to the next level:

Eat as many raw vegetables as you can and use garlic, ginger, herbs, lemon and chilli to flavor instead of sauces.

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If you have any tips for others who don’t like to eat vegetables then leave them below!

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