The 19 Most Weight-Loss-Friendly Foods on The Planet

Now, the questions that come to mind:

How?

How much are you consuming?

Are there things you’re eating that can negate the benefits of losing the weight?

This infographic takes a look at these questions by looking at the effects of certain foods on your metabolism.

The analysis, which is mainly done by mapping out calories ingested and lost through research, shows us a few “dieters” and “obese” women who lost weight and ate balanced, calorie-efficient meals.

What actually happened next is worth bringing up. By following the different meals and exercises that helped them lose weight and eating this “new” low-calorie diet, they still lost more weight than if they hadn’t changed their lifestyle and tried to lose weight via a more traditional set of meal plans.

These women were actually staying at the same weight for the whole study.

As we said before, different foods go through different metabolic pathways in your body.

They can have markedly different effects on your hunger, hormones and the number of calories you burn.

The results of this article shouldn’t lead you to believe that anything should be viewed as a “diet plan” for weight loss.

Instead, think of this as showing you how the change in calories consumed in the body can either create or negate the benefit of losing weight.

So, what foods made the most impact?

1. Breakfast

While eating breakfast was the most effective way to lose weight, it only impacted that outcome by a limited degree.

Adding a healthy breakfast improved the probability of dropping extra pounds — just by a small margin.

In this example, breakfast made an even greater impact than skipping breakfast.

If you do take the time to eat a “healthy” breakfast, however, there is little room for “cheat” meals throughout the day.

2. Lunch

While skipping lunch may help you lose weight, it’s unlikely that getting lean by skipping lunch is as effective as leaving it in place.

Lunch will still be an important part of getting to that “new” low-calorie goal.

Adding meals that involve carbohydrates could help you lose weight, but skipping lunch is not worth it.

Adding excess fiber, protein, fruits and other “digestive” foods would be a good option to consider.

3. Dinner

With dinner — simply, not eating a meal until late evening is recommended.

This helps, because it provides some maintenance of weight loss before you stop working out.

Keeping your workouts, while changing your diet into more “diet” like plans, will also help with weight loss.

4. Without workouts

There’s no denying it.

Daily workouts are absolutely helpful in maintaining your healthy weight — especially given the reported correlation between exercise and weight loss.

However, if you’re an obese person, the impact that these workouts make will still be very limited.

A study conducted by Sports Medicine Digest goes a step further.

Weight loss is not much of a factor for those who weigh under 55 kilograms (120 pounds) (see picture).

Hanging around your weight-loss coach/gym could be beneficial, and keeping a close watch on your nutrition.

5. Weight-loss-friendly

By looking at all the data in one brief presentation, it’s easy to see that there are big differences between dieters and obese individuals.

Just because you’re eating something that’s low-calorie does not mean that it will benefit you in the slightest.

At the same time, because you’re doing so, a reduction in calories per serving can actually help improve your metabolic rate.

An on-an-off experiment revealed some results on this, too.

1. Half the subjects, described as “on-the-go” dieters, only lost around 5% of their body weight by eating 2,500 kcal of food per day.

They were 20% more likely to remain at the same weight.

2. Half the subjects, only losing around 30% of their body weight, ate 1,600 kcal of food per day, and lost 15% of their body weight.

They were 31% more likely to remain at the same weight.

3. Half the subjects were eating only 1,500 kcal of food per day and lost 30% of their body weight.

They were 45% more likely to remain at the same weight.

But, most importantly, after stopping tracking