Best Foods to Lose Weight: Metabolism Boosting Foods and Other Good Foods for Weight Loss

Runner’s World lists the 20 best foods to lose weight, and I’ll list them in this post.  They talk about metabolism boosting foods and foods with negative calories as good foods for weight loss, and these are great weight loss tips that work.  I’ll set out the best foods to lose weight below for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts.  You know avid runners are very into foods that help increase metabolism for energy, and Runner’s World should know what they are.

I’ll provide a basic list of the 20 best foods to lose weight and provide a link to Runner’s World so you can learn more if you like.  If you concentrate on making diet changes over a year and stick to the plan, you can lose a lot of weight.  Many of these foods will help you reduce 100 calories and more from just one serving.  You can save 15,600 calories in a year just from changing this one food item, and you lose one pound for every 3,500 calories you cut.  Each time you substitute one food item, you’ll double that weight loss.  And DON’T SKIP BREAKFAST.  I ‘preach’ this all the time, but it really is the most important meal of the day, and gives you the energy to burn more calories throughout the day.  Following is a summary of the 20 best foods to lose weight by meal.

Metabolism Boosting Foods: Good Foods for Weight Loss

The below meal plans include metabolism boosting foods recommended by Runner’s World, and they’re all good foods for weight loss, as well as some foods with negative calories.  I’ll be writing about these in more detail in upcoming posts:

BREAKFAST:

1. Homemade raisin bran
2. Scrambled egg whites with greens
3. A balanced diet shake
4. A frozen fruit smoothie
5. Plain toasted bagel (Lender’s) with natural jelly

LUNCH:

1. A grilled vegetable burger
2. An “Alvarado Street” sprout wheat tortilla
3. A Subway roast beef sub
4. “Health Valley” chili 
5. Plain tossed salad with croutons rather than salad dressing

DINNER:

1. Spaghetti squash
2. “Papadini” pure lentil, high protein bean pasta
3. “Idaho Supreme” potato pasta
4. “Advantage 10″ pizza 
5. “Barbara’s mashed potatoes”

SNACKS:

1. Frozen bananas, blueberries and/or grapes
2. Dried mango, papaya and/or dates
3. “Glenny’s” cinnamon apple Soy Crisps (low fat)

DESSERTS:

1. “Chocolate Dreams” cookies
2. “Haagen Daz” chocolate sorbet

Good Foods for Weight Loss and Foods with Negative Calories

This gives you a basic list of the 20 best foods to lose weight according to Runner’s World.  I’ll go into more detail of these metabolism boosting foods in the next post.  They’re very good foods for weight loss, and many are foods with negative calories.

Hope this help you get on the road to your weight loss goals!  I’ll be writing more about metabolism boosting foods, foods with negative calories and other good foods for weight loss soon.  Cheers, and let me hear from you.  :)

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