Do you want to lose weight? Try challenging yourself to start with the shopping list. Yes, because what you buy will be what you will have in the fridge and in the pantry once you get back home: and that food can be the push towards different eating habits or it can help to undermine your good intentions to lose weight.

Here are some things you need to start doing to improve your shopping list and use it as a weight loss tool, without following any special diets or regimes.

DO YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT? START WITH THE SHOPPING LIST
1) Aim for ten portions of fruit and vegetables: choose fruit and vegetables to handle as little as possible and to be eaten raw, for example for vegetables salads, spinach, red onions, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, rocket, fennel, celery, peppers. Make fruits and vegetables the first thing to buy and the foundation of your personal food pyramid. Remember and fresh herbs.

2) Consider these foods in second place for a healthy but also fast diet: basmati rice, natural tuna and natural mackerel (better in glass jars), canned legumes, olive oil, pasta and wholemeal flour, flakes of oats, honey, spices, eggs, cocoa. These key foods will allow you to have quick and healthy dishes in no time.

Blending some rocket, chickpeas, a tablespoon of oil and a little garlic, you get a lean hummus that you can combine with roast chicken. A quick and easy dinner that can be prepared in ten minutes. Or, by blending vegetables with legumes and an egg, you can get very simple veggie burgers.

3) Always make a list: never go to the supermarket with that air of who knows what I want, make a list.

4) Consider online shopping:  eye does not see, scales do not hurt. Shopping online is a great tool for making a more dietary grocery list . The service is now active in many Italian cities. You pay a contribution towards the delivery costs, but you save time, gasoline costs, etc. In addition, it saves us from having to wander around the supermarkets and look at all the news between snacks, ice cream and snacks.

5) Eat before grocery shopping: Eat an apple or large salad before grocery shopping, not a snack. In fact, it has been established that if you go to the supermarket with a full stomach, you will make fewer impulsive purchases, and you will arrive unscathed at the payment despite the snacks at the checkout; all the more true when we eat something healthy just before.

6) Aim for quality and fresh for meat, fish, cheeses and cured meats:  little but good, this is the imperative for meat, fish, cheeses and cured meats. Avoid savings and rely on the local and organic whenever you can.

7) Experiment: the shopping cart must never be the same as it was the week before. If we always cook the usual dishes, we will only want those. Instead, you need to challenge yourself, improve your health by focusing not only on seasonality, but also on diversity. If you’ve never eaten barley, try it. If you have never tried the bio under the house, why not give it a chance? The food variety makes you lose weight.

Helps the enzymatic variety, stimulates the metabolism.

8) Avoid pre-prepared foods: they are extra calories.