Tomato is a low calorie, low fat and highly nutritious fruit. Yes, it is a fruit for those who still want to argue that it is a vegetable. Many people will also try to convince others that fruits are not good for weight loss because they contain natural sugars; However, tomatoes don’t fall prey to that belief. The amount of sugar in these is not high.
Knowing that the tomato is a diet-friendly fruit, you can start to see how it can help you with your diet. But it’s not just eating them that will help you lose weight. It’s eating them at night that can help you.
Why tomatoes help you lose weight
You should have at least 15mg of lycopene a day. how much is that? To get 15mg of lycopene, you would need to eat 2 large raw tomatoes, 1 can of whole tomatoes and about 2 cans of tomato juice. It sounds like a lot, but once you start adding them to meals and snacks, you can easily reach that amount and maybe even more.
Before you think that eating so many tomatoes must be high in calories, each tomato has about 30 calories. As you can see, this means you can only get about 200 calories from all the tomatoes you eat as part of your tomato diet.
The reason you need to eat so much is because the lycopene in tomatoes releases the weight loss hormone 13-oxo-ODA. This hormone will speed up your metabolism.
In addition to activating weight loss hormones, tomatoes contain fiber, which helps you feel full for longer and helps flush toxins from your body. These added benefits support all your weight loss efforts.
Why should tomatoes be eaten at night?
It’s not really them eating late at night. It’s eating them for dinner. Since dinner is traditionally the largest meal of the day, it is when most people consume the most calories. By adding a large number of tomatoes to dinner (and replacing them with other high-calorie foods), people are able to reduce many of the calories in that meal. This means that not only are they getting the metabolism-boosting nutrients and weight-loss factors of tomatoes, but they’re also consuming fewer calories.
This diet should be followed for at least three months. Six months is better because it takes that long for the metabolism to reprogram itself. This means that once a tomato has caused it to speed up, it is more likely to stay that way after six months.
Try this diet. This will probably be the most nutritious, healthy diet you’ve tried for many, many years.
