Low Calorie Food List

Today, 'Low-calorie foods' is the buzzword for all the people suffering from obesity. Everyone is eager to get their hands on weight loss diets. And we all know that a low calorie diet will ensure quick weight loss. So which are the low calorie foods? A low calorie food list is given below.

What are Calories?
It is a commonly accepted fact that low calorie foods will help reduce weight. But why is it so? Let us first understand what calories mean. In common parlance, a calorie is a measure of the amount of energy present in a food. This calorific energy released by various foods, fuel our daily activities. Now the problem is that the calories we eat are more than what our daily activities require. Hence we overfill our bodies. Now our body does not waste the fuel, instead, it stores the extra calories by converting it from food into fat. So in order to burn this unsightly storage of fat, we need to reverse the process. We need to consume lesser calories than we need to fuel our daily processes, and force the body to use the available fat storage as the energy source of the body. And to reduce calorie consumption, we need to focus on low calorie foods.

Now let us understand what is the calorie content in the various essential components in food. 1 gm of fat contains 9 calories. 1 gm of protein and 1 gm of carbohydrates contains 4 calories. 1 gm of fiber contains 0 calories.

Now, common sense will tell you that when you're trying to beat down your calorie intake, fats are best avoided. And a weight loss plan should optimize the carbohydrates and proteins. Then again, it is better to consume less of simple carbohydrates, as the body processes them easily and hence you feel hungry again. So the weight loss diet will contain more of proteins, fiber and complex carbohydrates and very little or no fats or simple carbohydrates. Based on this hypothesis, a low calorie food list is given below and you can design your weight loss programs. Check Free Low Calorie Recipes for some pointers on the same.

Low Calorie Food List
Use the foods in this low calorie food list for your weight loss program.

Foods	Calories Per 100gm
Apple	36
Boiled Beans	25
Boiled Macaroni	95
Boiled Potatoes	70
Broccoli	30
Brussels Sprouts	30
Fish	110
Lemon Juice	61
Lentils	70
Low Fat Cottage Cheese	80
Muesli	360
Noodles, boiled	70
Oats Porridge	55
Pasta, boiled	110
Pasta (whole wheat), boiled	105
Rice (White)	140
Rice (Brown)	135
Spaghetti (boiled)	101
Tofu	73

So that was a low calorie food list. These foods will surely reduce your daily calorie consumption. Try including these foods in your diet to lower calorie consumption and thus, augment weight loss.