Try to make these quick food swaps to look slimmer and lose nearly seven lbs in four days! These ideas will help you reduce water retention and gas so you will instantly feel and look lighter.
Food Seasoning
Season your meals with salt-free flavoring blend like Mrs. Dash Italian medley all natural salt free seasoning. Avoid salt-based seasonings, salt, and processed meals to prevent fluid retention.
Carbonated Drinks
Avoid any carbonated drinks such as diet sodas and coke. Drink plain tap water to stay hydrated and get no less than eight glasses of water a day.
Smart Carbs Swaps
Avoid highly refined carbs in foods like bagels, salty snacks, as well as white rice. Use wholemeal bread for your sandwiches at lunch and replace your afternoon salty snacks with some almonds or seeds. At dinner, stick to brown rice or whole wheat pasta.
Spicy Foods
Hot and spicy foods can activate the release of gastric acid, causing irritation. Give your meals a flavor boost with herbs like basil, sage, rosemary, dill, mint, and tarragon. Curry powder and lemon juice are perfect to flavor fish or chicken.
Chewing Gums
When you eat chewing gum, you ingest air. That air gets trapped in your gastrointestinal system causing stress, bloating, and belly expansion.
If you want to eat something crunchy, grab a few nuts, like roasted or natural saltless sunflower seeds.
Skip Gas Producing Veggies
Stay away from beans, cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, cabbage, red onions, bell peppers, and citrus fruits.
Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Stay away from sugar alcohols that can cause gas, bloating, and diarrhoea (e.g. Low calorie or low carbs packaged foods or foods containing xylitol or maltitol).
Coffee
Coffee, tea, fruit juices and alcoholic beverages can irritate your gastrointestinal system, causing swelling.
