Bikini Feeling a Little Tight? Eat Yourself Skinny With These 5 Foods

From Atkins and South Beach to Paleo and juicing, fad diets comes and go, but it's still possible to eat yourself skinny once you know what to fill up on. Incorporating the star ingredients of the most popular diets into your own daily menu however, could be the key to lasting weight loss. Here are the five best foods to eat daily if you're trying to shift that belly before you hit the beach. Eggs Packed with filling protein, zinc and iron and low in calories, eggs are the ideal breakfast, lunch or dinner. Keep a bowl of hard boiled eggs in the fridge to snack on. Or mix up an egg mayo with fat free mayonnaise, chopped cress and spring onion and serve with Ryvita. Bananas A serious source of potassium, which is essential for heart and kidney function, bananas are the key ingredient in some of the coolest new healthy recipes doing the rounds right now. Try our famous Banana Pancakes and mix up a batch of Banana Ice Cream. Apples There's more to the apple than the satisfying crunch; the fruit is a great source of filling fibre, while the peel is home to a wealth of antioxidants that fight cancer, prevent Parkinson's and help detoxify your liver. Soup It's cheap, healthy and easy to make, but soup has yet another important attribute: it's extremely filling. Make a batch of something delicious on a Sunday and enjoy a bowl for lunch during the week. If you usually eat bread with your soup, try and save it for afterwards... you'll likely find you don't want it when the soup is gone. Experiment with Pho if you like a broth-y base. Oats The gloopy porridge of your youth may have given oats some bad press, but these days savvy dieters serve up steel cut oats in a variety of delicious ways. A cup contains just 147 calories, a day's worth of manganese and plenty of hunger-pang blitzing fibre. Use oats in your meatball and burger mix instead of breadcrumbs for a firmer, tastier result and try this mouthwatering recipe for Peanut Butter Overnight Oats, which taste as good as dessert.