Beans: The Weight Loss Superfood
Why Do They Work?
To get straight to the point, beans work for weight loss because they actually feed your body. You eat one way, but your body eats in another. Your body has a “brain” of its own. That brain wants to keep you healthy and alive for as long as possible.
Eating too little usually means too little nutrition, which can cause the body to slow down digestion and metabolism in an effort to keep you alive. It can also cause your body to store more fat the next time you eat; just in case you get the notion to try “starving” it again.
When it’s lacking nutrition, it causes you to crave foods that might give it what it needs. Or, in some cases, like in the case of unhealthy candida overgrowth for example, it can cause you to crave what the candida eats; sweets! When your body gets what it needs, it craves less food, because you’re giving it the nutrition that it must have. It’s satisfied; and that’s what beans provide. That’s what makes the bean a superfood.
Most of us are obsessed with counting calories. On average, it takes a certain number of calories to give the body the nutrition it needs for the day. But there’s a lot less nutrition in most foods today, than there was 60-100 years ago.
Black beans and lentils are still packed with so much nutrition that you don’t need to worry about how many calories you’re eating. If you eat a cup with every meal, you’ll be surprised at how little else you will crave; not necessarily because they “fill you up” physically, but because they satiate, which is even better!
Millions of people will eat this powerful weight loss food and ultimately say: “Yeah. I tried it. It didn’t work for me.” Many of those millions of people will be like I was. There are complicated reasons that people have difficulty losing weight and keeping it off. If you’ve never struggled with weight, then it may surprise you to discover how many of those reasons have nothing to do with the amount of food eaten or the amount of daily exercise. I had to figure out what those reasons were for me and fix them, first.
Reference
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Eat More, Weigh Less? Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/energy_density.html