5 Shed fat faster with almonds!

Already cutting calories and not seeing the results you want? Instead of cutting more calories (eating too little stalls weight loss by prompting your body to hold on to and store fat), eat a handful of raw or dry-roasted almonds twice a day. In a 12-week study, dieters who did lost more than twice as much fat within 12 weeks—especially from their midsection— as those who ate the same calories, but no almonds. ✤ The slimming science: Almonds’ unsaturated fat revs your fat-burning mechanisms, and their protein keeps you feeling full between meals!

Also try hops!

Women who supplemented with hops—the grain that gives beer its distinctive flavor—saw their total percentage of body fat plunge within 12 weeks! Compounds in hops called iso-alpha acids activate your beneficial “brown” fat, the type that gobbles calories! One option: Vitacost Perluxan Hops Extract, $8.99, Vitacost.com.