A Great Way to Get Your Veggies

• The USDA considers a half-cup of cucumbers to be about a fifth of the fruits and veggies you need for the day. At just eight calories per half-cup, cucumbers are a nutritional bargain. It takes two minutes of walking to burn those eight calories, so it's easy to see how you can create a calorie deficit by eating plenty of cucumbers.
  
  

Feel Full

• Cucumbers contain a lot of water, but very few calories and a negligible amount of fat. Eat as many as you like, because your stomach doesn't know that you're eating a large amount of a low-calorie food; it feels just as full as if you'd eaten the same amount of a fattening food.
  
  

Cucumbers and Energy

• Dehydration is an energy zapper. Fortunately, fruits and vegetables with high water content go a long way to keep the body hydrated. Cucumbers' water content has the added bonus of more efficiently pushing fiber through the body. The better the digestive system works, the more energy you'll have. Maintaining regularity can result in higher energy levels, making you feel revived and healthy while losing weight.