This recipe just shows you that healthy, fat burning foods can also be very tasty and also easy to make. Make sure that you regularly include this recipe in your meal plan for lunch or for a light dinner. That way you will also be getting in lots of fat burning foods that may help you lose fat. Fat burning foods can also help you to be fuller for longer,to have less cravings and it can also speed up your weight loss.
Salmon and cottage cheese wraps
Salmon is high in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids (the good fat). A recent study has shown that healthy fats keep us fuller for longer. So this lunch will ensure that you don’t get any hunger pangs. You can include a salad if you like to fill you up even more. Just make sure that you use a light/fat reduced salad dressing,that you use fat reduced feta cheese and that you skip the croutons.
Info:
Serves: 2
Number of fat burning foods: 4 (tortillas, cottage cheese, salmon, rocket leaves,avo)
Calories per serving:410
Fat per serving:6g
Ingredients:
2 Whole-wheat tortilla wraps
6 heaped teaspoons of fat free cottage cheese
200g smoked salmon ribbons
2 handfuls of fresh rocket leaves
half an avo
Lettuce, sliced
Lemon juice
Instructions:
Heat the tortillas in a pre-heated oven; spread 3 heaped teaspoons of cottage cheese on each tortilla. Add 100g of smoked salmon to each tortilla together with half of the avo and the rocket leaves, add some lettuce and sprinkle with lemon juice.
I hope that you enjoyed my lunch recipe. It will really help to make you healthier and it may even help you to lose some weight. Including more fat burning foods in your diet will also help you even more. But what ever you do, please stay away from fad diets, like the 1000 calorie diet. They will only harm your long term weight loss by slowing down your metabolism. Rather stick to a healthy,balanced diet and include fat burning foods in your diet to lose fat.