Collection of Tricks and Easy Ways to Lose Weight

The traditional diets of the Mediterranean countries are not only good for losing weight, but they are delicious and healthy. They bring together lower cholesterol, lower rates of heart disease, lower rates of cancer. One great dish of the Mediterranean countries is the salad. So, let’s learn how to make one such salad and start feeling healthier. Those that are bored of eating the regular old salads will like this one.

Ingredients:

1 tomato – thinly shredded
1 cucumber – thinly sliced
300 grams of light white cheese – cut in cubes
5 leafs of laaf lettuce – thinly shredded
A few black olives
Some mint, some oregano, a bit of lemon juice, salt, pepper

Mix all the ingredients in a blow and decorate with the olives. Yes, you can eat the olives! As long as you keep the major ingredients, feel free to add a bit of other vegetables that you might like. A bit of onion wouldn’t be bad, would it?

Let’s take a trip to the East… Well that’s East for the Westerners out there. You probably have heard of shish kebap (kabob). You can make it with meat or chicken. This recipe uses chicken and is a diet recipe.

Ingredients:

2 breasts of chicken
Cherry tomatoes or some medium sized normal tomatoes
Shallots (small onions)
Green peppers

Keep in mind, all these are what will go on the shish, or rather “skewer”. So you’ll probably want a tomato, a shallot, a cut green onion on the skewer with pieces of chicken in between them. Depending on the length of your skewers or your taste, feel free to add more tomatoes (or what you want) and set up the dish as you want.

But before we get there, we need to marinate the chicken. So here are the ingredients for marinating:

Some salt and pepper
A grated clove of garlic and some thinly sliced onion
Olive oil and some paste/sauce (tomato or red pepper)
Additionally, if you would like to add some other spices, go ahead.

Cut your chicken so that you have pieces around the size of the shallots. Marinate the pieces in the ingredients mentioned above.

After a few hours of marinating, line up your goodies (marinated chicken, tomatoes, shallots, green peppers cut to fit, etc.) on your skewers. Grill these until the chicken meat is no longer pinkish.