How to Lose Weight Eating Yogurt

Yogurt is one of the healthiest of foods when you buy a container that has "Contains Active Yogurt Cultures" written on the outside. Yogurt not only helps to prevent and kill bacteria that causes infections but also helps to ward off cancer. Consuming a low-fat yogurt for breakfast or lunch once or twice a day, together with with a healthy diet and daily exercise, also can help you lose weight.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Yogurt
• Salads
• Fruit

Yogurt, Excercise, Food, Weight Loss

1. Go to the dairy department of the supermarket, and check the labels on the low-fat yogurts. Make sure it contains the words: "Active Yogurt Cultures." This is the important single ingredient that kills bacteria that causes infections and protects against contracting cancer. The fewer artificial additives yogurt contains the healthier it is to eat, and it is the healthiest to consume especially when trying to lose weight.

2. 

   Buy an assortment of any of the low-fat yogurt flavors with the words "Active Yogurt Cultures" and also the flavors that you might enjoy eating for lunch. Plan your menu for each day to include a cup of yogurt for lunch along with a sliced apple (or any fruit), along with a handful of roasted almonds. Include some type of daily exercise, even if it is only walking around the block half a dozen times.

3. 
   fresh berries

   Check out the produce department and their in-season fresh fruits. Berries of any type and color are extremely healthy and delicious when eaten mixed into a cup of plain yogurt. Sliced watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew or fresh pineapple makes a great fruit plate with yogurt in the center. Dip the fruits in the yogurt or eat them separately for another yogurt lunch. Canned or frozen fruits will work just as well. Add your daily exercise, and you are well on your way to losing weight.

4. 
   salads of all types

   Check the produce department for their fresh salad greens. Include sliced mushrooms, cucumbers, radishes or whatever else you like to put in a salad. Include a few olives, sardines in olive oil or artichokes, and you have another great lunch. Of course, add a container of your favorite yogurt. Exercise by walking, bike riding or becoming a mall walker and walking in the mornings with others.

5. 
   roast chicken dinner

   Eat each day a good dinner that includes some sort of meat or fish, potatoes, vegetables and fruit. Before bedtime or about 9 or 10 p.m., have a cup of yogurt with a graham cracker. Keep to this schedule of alternating yogurt flavors for a week while including some form of daily exercise. Weigh yourself at the end of seven days to see how much weight you have lost.

Tips & Warnings

• Yogurt alone will not cause a drastic weight loss. Along with exercise, it can help the weight start going down slowly. If you prefer to have only one yogurt a day, you still will lose weight by following the plan of also exercising daily. Use yogurt as salad dressing or as vegetable/fruit dip. Use low-fat yogurt in place of sour cream on top of baked potatoes. Yogurt is also a healthy in-between meal snack or after-school snack for the kids, even if they do not need to lose weight.
• Eating "only" yogurt daily is not healthy. Eat it as a part of your daily food intake.

References

• Healthy Yogurt
• Which Yogurt to Choose From

Resources

• Recipies using Yogurt

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