Turns out that Quest has great tasting chips. Today, I had the Ranch Tortilla Chips. OMG. They were delish. 19g of protein, 4 net carbs for the whole bag. So delish. I am going to try the other flavors (one … Continue reading
“One reason that people resist change is that they focus on what they have to give up, rather than what they have to gain.” –Rick Godwin
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How many of you don’t like the idea of dieting because you feel like you are giving up your favorite foods or that your diet will be boring and no fun?
Giving up the wrong foods and the wrong way of eating lets you gain so much in self-esteem and being healthy.
Let’s face it, you have been doing it “wrong” for years or you wouldn’t be here right now. I know that is true, I have lived it. And yes, you might have a health issue (like me) or aging (like me) and it is harder to lose weight and you can’t eat nearly all of the same things you used to love to eat.
Look at it this way. How lucky for you to eat all of those so-bad-for-you foods for so long, but now it is time to grow up and learn how to control yourself. You are not a child anymore and you don’t have to eat all of your favorite things every day.
I eat at a salad and sandwich shop a lot and every time I am there, I am shocked to see how many patrons who are overweight, buy a bag of potato chips with their healthy salad or sandwich. If you want to be thin, you must have portion control and you have to count carbs.
I don’t eat sandwiches for lunch anymore because there are anywhere from 11 to 36g of carbs PER slice of bread. And the bag of chips has about 14g of carbs. So, if you eat a sandwich with a bag of chips, you could be eating anywhere from 36 to 86g of carbs per lunch (without counting meat, cheese, etc) and sugary carby soda. If you want to lose weight, you have to eat between 50g and 100g of carbs per day and you just had almost all of it in one sitting. This is why people find it hard to eat right or diet. They have had NO idea how to count carbs and eat in a way that is conducive to a maintaining a normal weight. Now, you can eat all of this if you are going to go for a run later…but how many of you do that?
But, even my own family member who refused to change her food habits has finally changed after she was told she is VERY pre-diabetic. Do you have to wait until you are that sick to finally do the right thing for yourself? Go to Overeater’s Anonymous or a Medically supervised plan (like Lindora), join a workout club or group exercise (like my Pilates and Yoga–start with the beginner classes), but get help and do it right for the New Year–this year should have prosperity and well-being. Do it for yourself.
Going to be tough today!
Every day I have a salad with some form of meat and/or cheese–with vegetables, for lunch. I also have a salad at dinner, but the salad and veggies might be separate from my meat.
But, for the most part, that is what I eat. I have discipline. I have snacks in between and after dinner–protein-based.
It saddens me to see people trying to lose weight and still get stuck on eating white bread sandwiches (which have gluten and no nutritional value at all–it is all about just FILLING UP THE BELLY)–and boy does it fill up the belly, outwardly.
But, SO many people now seem to feel that they need to wash that sandwich down with a bag of chips.
I eat at a lunch place where they serve salads, sandwiches and soups. There is a rack of potato chips to choose from. Everyone who orders a sandwich (except my husband), grabs a bag to have with their lunch. Most people eating salads seem to know better and don’t eat the chips.
What is the deal with the chips? Is everyone so addicted to the carb, glucose-high?
Do you want to lose weight? You have to get through the addiction. I did it. I was addicted to pasta (wheat-based). It takes a few weeks and you must have a lot of low-fat cheese snacks and hard-boiled eggs to tide you over until the addiction clears…but it does. I learned to like coffee even more.
Then, you will lose the weight and keep it off.
Until then, the chips and bread are winning, not you! Nutritionally, they are useless. A lot of sodium (Not good for the heart), few vitamins, only 2g of protein and 24g of carbs. If you want to lose weight and only want 50 to 100g of carbs a day, you are going to waste it all on a bag of empty chips? It is going to turn to sugar and only make you crave more sugar later (about 6 sugar cubes worth)….
The sandwich in itself is about 24g of carbs for the bread. Great–in one sitting, little nutritional value and around 50g of carbs. This is not going to help with losing weight.
So, it is your choice. Do it or not. Stop complaining though if you don’t lose and you hate how you look!
I was talking with someone the other day about losing weight. They have a desire to do it, but they aren’t willing to learn new habits. They are in a rut. They need to re-learn how to eat a healthy lifestyle diet and not just eat foods for a “diet.” These people want to “nosh” on things when they are home, and they are all comfort foods: Chips, crackers, ice cream (low-fat). Their health is not as important as that need to satiate their addiction to carbs, sugar, salt and fat
Wrong Philosophy Makes You Stay Fat:
If you are eating potatoes of any kind (chips included), and you aren’t putting in any exercise, then you will not lose weight. You most likely will gain.
Some people think that if food is from Trader Joe’s, that it is good for them. However, if items have flour in them and are processed, no matter where they are from…they are not good for your diet.
Some people think that low-fat is good way to diet. I have news for you, NOPE! Read about it online. It is an advertising scam that we all fell for and that is why everyone got fat. We eat low-fat, but they replace things in food to taste good that are high in carbs to make up for it (like Fructose Corn Syrup) and that is the stuff that is making us all fat and getting diabetes.
If you read anything that Dr. Mark Hyman writes about in his Blood Sugar Solution, he talks about how you need to eat food that is fresh and covers a wide variety of colors in the rainbow–eat, not juice and drink.
Let’s look at Empty Calorie Snacks:
1. Lay’s Baked Potato Chips: 1 ounce bag or about 15 chips: 24g of carbs
2. Ruffles Potato Chips: 1 ounce bag: 15g of carbs and believe it or not, the light, no fat is more at 17g carbs.
3. Cheese Its Crackers: 29 crackers: 20g of carbs. (Reduced fat is the same)
4. Trader Joe’s Mini Cheese Sandwiches: 13 crackers: 16g of carbs
5. Trader Joe’s Multigrain Crackers: 14 crackers: 22g of carbs.
(AND THERE IS LITTLE TO NO PROTEIN in crackers, so you are eating empty calories. If you ate something good that had protein, you would be less likely to be too hungry again later and scarf your next meal. You would be better off making a turkey sandwich on whole wheat or a pita, for the same amount of carbs than to eat a bunch of white flour that does nothing but bloat you. Eating mindlessly does nothing to help your diet or your health. If you learn to have a nutritional snack between lunch and dinner and after dinner and stay away from snacking on bad foods, you will feel and look better.)
6. Dreyer’s Reduced Fat Slow-Churned Vanilla Ice Cream (12g of sugar or about 4 sugar cubes): for half a cup (have you seen how small half a cup is???): 15g of carbs. If you eat it like most people, you are probably eating 1 1/2 cups at 45g of carbs. The three main ingredients of this are all forms of sugar.
Fat doesn’t matter! THE REGULAR DREYERS is 16g per half a cup. You are NOT going to keep your weight down with the slow churned REDUCED fat ice cream.
Better Choices:
1. There is Breyers Carb Smart Vanilla ice cream and that is a better choice if you have to have ice cream. It is 4g of carbs per half cup. That is a huge difference. Less carbs means less sugar–less fat on the body.
2. A low-carb tortilla or sandwich bread protein sandwich.
3. A protein salad.
4. Western Bagel Perfect 10 Bagel at 10g of carbs per bagel. You could even melt some cheese on it! Make your sandwiches with it! (sold at Western Bagel or Westernbagel.com)
5. A low-carb protein bar or shake.
6. Two low-fat string cheese or slices
7. Low-carb Greek Yogurt and some fruit
8. Measured out nuts (look at the label on how many nuts equals how many carbs). Try to keep your snack under 15g of carbs, which is a lot, considering that if you want to lose weight, you must have between 50 and 100g of carbs per day. But, if you have most of them in this one snack, it messes up your whole day.
Eat a good protein lunch with salad and veggies so you aren’t starving before dinner and a protein snack will be enough for you until dinner time.
Try this:
(LC) A low-carbohydrate diet minimizes sugars and starches, replacing them with foods rich in protein and healthy fats.
(RF) “Real food” means choosing foods that humans had access to throughout evolution. Processed, unnatural foods with artificial chemicals are avoided.
LCRF is not a “diet.” It is a way of eating, a lifestyle change based on bulletproof scientific evidence.
For more information:
http://authoritynutrition.com/how-to-eat-healthy/
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