By Rebecca Rose of www.ChoiceEating.com

Let’s face it, the real problem with dieting is finding foods that taste good while satisfying your appetite.

According to Health magazine, the following seven foods are especially good for helping those who are trying to shed a few pounds:

1. Oats: Rich in fiber, a breakfast of hot or cold oatmeal cereal, which contains “resistant starch” that increases metabolism and burns fat, can start you off feeling full.

2. Quinoa: Replace rice with quinoa, a protein-rich seed related to spinach that cooks like a grain. This staple of the ancient Inca civilization also is high in fiber, packing a double punch that helps you feel full longer.

3. Black beans: One cup of black beans supplies 15 grams of protein, which helps you feel fuller longer and doesn’t contain the unhealthy saturated fat found in red meat.

4. Salmon: This lean source of protein is packed with omega-3 fatty acids, which promotes heart health.

5. Broccoli: This cruciferous vegetable can fill you up with fiber at fewer than 30 calories per serving. Fresh or frozen, cooked or raw, this vegetable also is abundantly available year-round.

6. Lentils: A great source of protein and fiber, this legume, comes in a rainbow of colors, including red, yellow, green and brown. Like oats, they contain resistant starch that boost metabolism and burns fat.

7. Garbanzo beans: Better known in some circles as chickpeas, they contains two grams of resistant starch per-half-cup serving. One cup gives you 50 percent of your daily fiber needs.

Rebecca Rose is an award-winning writer based in Oak Park, IL, who routinely covers health and fitness, financial and women’s issues regionally and nationally.