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We are what we eat. Old saying, but truthfull nevertheless. Your menu often determines your length of life, your looks and how healthy you are. In case you want to lose some extra pounds, you’re probably going to change your dietary requirements a lot. Here’s a couple of weight loss for women recipes for you:

Chinese-style asparagus (6 servings)
Required ingredients: 1/2 cup of water, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1.5 pounds fresh asparagus, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
Meal prep procedure: Heat the water, sugar and soy sauce in a large saucepan. Cook until boiling and add the asparagus. Reduce heat to low and simmer until the asparagus is tender-crisp, about 5 minutes.

Rainbow Pizza (6 servings)
Required ingerdients: 3 English muffins, 1/2 cup of pasta sauce, Pizza topings (grated carrots, chopped broccoli, chopped red pepper,…), 1/2 grated mozzarella cheese.
Meal prep procedure: Cut the muffins in half, spread the sauce over them and arrange your toppings. Add one tablespoon of of cheese on each pizza and bake them at 350 degrees for 9-12 minutes (until the cheese is melted).

Chicken Caesar pitas
Required ingredients:5 ounces chunky white meat chicken, 3/4 cup of chopped romaine lettuce, 1 chopped tomato, 1/4 cup fresh Parmasan cheese, 1 whole-weat pita bread, 1/3 cup of Caesar dressing.
Meal prep procedure: Add everything but the bread in a small bowl, toss to mix evenly and then cover and put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. Put in the bread and serve immediately.

Cheesecake
Required ingredients: 1/4 cup water, 1 envelope unflavored gelatin, 1/2 cup skim milk, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 egg whites, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups low-fat cottage cheese.
Meal prep procedure: Put gelatin, lemon juice and water in a blender container. Process 1 to 2 minutes on a low speed. Add hot milk and process until the gelatin is dissolved. Add the rest of the ingredients to the blender container and process on high speed until it’s smooth. Pour into round flash dish and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.

Losing Weight Healthy – Useful Tips

First of all, ask yourself a sincere question – do you really want to undertake the journey to being slim? If your answer is an honest YES, good for you – you’ve just saved yourself a lot of money and nerves. So, how to make sure you’re losing weight healthy?

Forget about Overnight Results
Man likes to have fast results with minimum work. That’s fine, but it just doesn’t work in terms of burning fat. Weight loss market is filled with products telling you that it’s THE product for fast weight loss.
Save your money, they don’t work and if they do, they’ll only result in the famous “Yo-Yo” effect. Losing weight healthy means a long-term dedication and focus, that’s why you had to honestly answer in the beginning.

You Have to Eat
There is one major principle that you should respect every time you decide it’s time to follow any diet. Ask a dietary expert and you’ll know that you have to eat and it has to be a reasonable amount of food. Why?
Imagine your body is a machine and the food you eat is an oil. What would happen if you suddenly stopped supplying the oil? The machine would stop. When you’re trying to reduce your weight, you have to slowly cut the amounts your body is used to consume.
Any diet on the weight loss market that urges you to eat only fruit or 100 calories per day or not eat at all and just drink some fancy juice – run away. Run far, run fast.

Consult an Expert
Number of information grows exponentially. It is impossible for one human to understand everything and that’s where specialization comes in. Before you take any drastic steps, invest your time and possibly a few bucks in seeing a dietary expert.
You don’t want to end your noble quest of weight loss with damaging your health or turning into an anorectic skeleton, do you? Don’t trust the Internet that much, either. There are times when real doctors, face to face, are invaluable.