Losing weight does not need to be complicated. Just follow the 8 weight loss principles outlined below, and you’ll be on your way to a slimmer and healthier body.

1. Keep it simple. There is no need to cook fancy meals, count your calories, or follow a complicated daily meal plan. You need to make it easy for yourself, and this means basing your nutrition on fresh, raw plant foods – greens, fruits and vegetables, while limiting or eliminating everything else.

2. Eat the salad as your main dish: consume it first at lunch and dinner, and even breakfast. We tend to eat more of whatever we eat first because we are the hungriest, and the good news you can eat as much salad as you like, no need to control your portions here. Raw foods have high transit times, they fill you up and encourage weight loss. Just remember that a salad should include lots of greens and raw vegetables and fruits, if you like, with some lemon juice sprinkled on top. Potato salad or tuna salad, and other so-called salads, with lots of mayo and other stuff, don’t count. Successful, long-term weight control and health is linked to high consumption of raw greens, vegetables and fruits.

3. To save time, consider drinking your salad. If you find chopping and chewing all these greens and veggies exhausting or boring, just throw them into your blender with some juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, add a little bit of water, if your blender cannot handle the job, and drink your salad instead. I recommend that you add some herbs – basil, cilantro, parsley, dill, and some sweetener – a little bit of honey, or some sweet fruit – to make your drinkable salad even more delicious.

4. Eat as much fresh fruit as you like, but at least four servings every day. Consuming lots of fresh fruit is satisfying and filling, so eat as many fruits as you like with throughout the day. Fruits are high in calories, compared to greens and vegetables, but it’s okay to splurge, especially if you have a sweet tooth. The best dessert is blended fruit, or blended frozen fruit. You can blend your fruits with greens, add some water, and you will have a delicious green smoothie that will satisfy your cravings for sweets and other unhealthy snacks.

5. Make sure you consume a variety of greens and vegetables. Variety is not just the spice of life, it makes a valuable contribution to your health. Be creative when preparing your vegetable salads. Use as many kinds of greens and vegetables as you can find – lettuce (romaine, bib, Boston, red leaf, green ice, arugula, radicchio, endive, iceberg), celery, spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, onions, radishes, snow peas, carrots, beets, cabbage, and all kinds of sprouts. Even more vegetables can be eaten cooked – you can steam them or make into a tasty vegetable soup.

6. Limit the amounts of starchy vegetables and grains. For quick weight loss, limit cooked, high-starch grains and vegetables to one cup per day. Consider any vegetable that is not green to be a high-starch vegetable (except eggplant, peppers, onions, and mushrooms). Fill up on the raw vegetables and cooked green vegetables first. However, make the most of your starch consumption from starchy vegetables – such as butternut squash, acorn squash, corn, turnips, parsnips, cooked carrots, sweet and white potatoes, etc – rather than starchy grains, refined starchy grains – such as bread, pasta, or white rice – should be even more restricted. If you decide to have some bread, a thin whole-wheat pita is a good alternative for sandwiches. Limiting the portion size of cooked starchy vegetables to one serving is not necessary for everybody to lose weight, only for those whose metabolism makes it difficult to lose weight. Most people can still achieve an ideal body weight by cutting our refined starches only, such as white bread and pasta.

7. Include beans or legumes in your meals to fill you up. Many say beans are a dieter’s best friend. That’s because beans have a high nutrient-per-calorie profile, digest slowly, and fill you up quickly. Some combinations you may consider are eggplant and beans, mushrooms and beans, greens and beans – these are all and all high-nutrient, high fiber, low calorie main dishes. Add some beans to your salad, or have some bean soup. Eating soup helps you lose weight reducing your appetite by filling your stomach.

8. Limit animal and diary products. For quickest weight loss, eliminate animal products entirely – that includes meats, fats, and diary products – or limit it to just a little lean fish, such as flounder or sole, once or twice a week, and an egg white omelet once a week.

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