Tomatoes are 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 due to the natural sugar they contain; however, tomatoes are not victims of that belief. They do not contain a large amount of sugar in them.

Knowing that tomatoes are 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 is eating them at night that can help you.

Why tomatoes help you lose weight

You must have at least 15 mg of lycopene daily. How much is that? You would need to eat 2 large raw tomatoes, 1 can of whole tomatoes, and about 2 cans of tomato juice to reach 15 mg of lycopene. It sounds like a lot, but once you start incorporating them into meals and snacks, you’ll easily reach that amount and probably even more.

Before you think that eating so many tomatoes must be high in calories, each tomato has around 30 calories. As you can see, that means you may only be getting 200 calories from all the tomatoes you eat as part of your tomato diet.

The reason you need to eat so many 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 the weight loss hormone, tomatoes contain fiber, which helps you feel full longer and helps flush toxins out of your body. These added benefits support all of your weight loss efforts.

Why eat tomatoes at night?

Actually, it’s not eating them late at night. It’s eating them for dinner. Since dinner is traditionally the largest meal of the day, that’s when most people consume the most calories. By adding a lot of tomatoes to dinner (and replacing other high-calorie foods), people can cut down on many of the calories in that meal. This means that they not only receive the nutritional components of tomatoes and weight loss factors, such as increased metabolism, but also consume 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. What that means is that once it gets revved up by tomatoes, it’s more likely to stay that way after six months.

Try this diet. It will probably be the most nutritious and healthy diet you have ever tried and it will be effective now and for many years to come.