Can eating half a grapefruit before meals help you lose weight? The total amount of fruit is the key

Meet the Mid-Autumn Festival with "Yuzu"! Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, grapefruits and mooncakes are frequently released, constantly tempting our olfactory nerves and activating the hunger receptors in the body, making people eat and drink to their heart's content without any resistance. As a result, the calorie intake exceeded the limit, causing the long-standing battle against body fat to be "broken"! There has been a recent internet rumor: "Eating half a grapefruit before meals can help you lose weight." Is this true?

Can eating grapefruit help you lose weight? Nutritionist: Not the only option

The "Grapefruit Weight Loss Method" circulating on the Internet mentions: Eat half a grapefruit before meals, and then reduce the amount of food you eat; if you are very hungry outside of meal times, avoid foods such as biscuits, bread, and chocolate, and then make grapefruit your first choice for snacks. You can naturally get rid of fat and achieve the effect of easy weight loss.

Nutritionist Su Yanchen said that a careful study of the online rumor that "eating grapefruit can help you lose weight" reveals that the reason grapefruit can be regarded as a weight loss helper is that it contains some indigestible fiber. If consumed in moderation before meals, it can reduce the amount of high-fat and high-oil meals. If you are accustomed to choosing high-calorie cookies, bread, and chocolate for snacks, compared to these obesity culprits, grapefruit is indeed an option worth considering.

Eat low GI fruits before a high-fat meal

However, grapefruit is not the only fruit that has this advantage. Other fruits with a low glycemic index (GI value), such as pears, papayas, cantaloupes, guavas, etc., can be enjoyed as delicious snacks before high-fat meals, or as snacks when you are slightly hungry between meals, as long as you can control the total amount of consumption. They are also good helpers to fill your stomach. As for the overall amount of fruit, women should consume about 3 baseballs a day, and men should consume about 4 baseballs a day. As long as you grasp the general principles, you will naturally not lose weight after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Vegetable beans such as green beans, peas, snow peas, and even various melons such as loofah, bitter melon, and chayote are all good fat-reducing ingredients that are essential during a big meal.

Vegetables are also good ingredients for reducing fat. Eat them before meals

In addition, the "hidden weapon" that must be mentioned for losing weight during the Mid-Autumn Festival is the old saying - "vegetables", which are not limited to leafy vegetables. There are various mushrooms such as enoki mushrooms and pleurotus eryngii, or vegetable beans such as green beans, green beans, and snow peas, and even various melons such as loofah, bitter melon, and chayote, which are all essential fat-reducing ingredients during big meals.

It is recommended that, whether it is a dinner with friends, a delicious barbecue party, etc., eat about one palm-sized amount of vegetables before the meal. This will naturally reduce the intake of high-oil and high-fat meals, making the Mid-Autumn Festival delicious and slim.

Don't sit after a full meal and increase your activity level

Nutritionist Su Yanchen said that the "secret weapon" that is not mentioned on the Internet is "increasing the amount of activity." It does not require you to do strenuous aerobic exercises such as jogging or pedaling a flywheel immediately after a meal. As long as you don't sit and chat after a meal, but choose light activities such as standing, cleaning, and walking, you can naturally achieve the effect of filling the gaps during the most critical period for the stomach and intestines to absorb calories.