1. Watermelon
There are several reasons how this juicy fruit can help you battle the bulge. Watermelon is more than 90% water. Foods high in water fill you up faster. But you can’t live on water alone because it lacks vitamins and nutrients. Watermelon is high in vitamins A, C, B6, thiamine, and lycopene. You get valuable nutrition…and you get full, which means you won’t be eating more calories after eating low-cal, low-fat watermelon. (A wedge contains less than a gram of fat.)
2. Cheese
Dairy contains protein, and protein generally makes you feel full. (Read: you won’t crave more food.) One study showed that people who were obese lost almost double the amount of body fat and weight by eating a dairy-rich diet as opposed to obese individuals who ate the same amount of calories but kept dairy to a minimum. Most of the fat loss came from the belly. Researchers point to calcium as the hero here. This mineral regulates how fat is stored and broken down by the body. Besides calcium, dairy has two more fat-busting components: whey and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Whey ultimately helps burn more calories and CLA is believed to burn fat.