jeudi 24 janvier 2013

Quick Tips for Eating a Low Carb Diet

By Ron Stucky


These days, everyone wants to eat a low carb diet. Years ago, reducing your carb intake was frowned upon. Carbs should do you some good. Energy is provided by carbs. Carbs should be a part of all healthy diets. While this is many times a true statement, it is really not that simple to understand. There nutritious carbs and carbs that have no nutritious value. If you want to have a low carb diet, you must cut out the bad carbs. Then you can monitor the intake of your good carbs to maintain your energy and balanced diet. Here are some hints that you can use to help yourself eat a low carb diet.

Salads can be a low carb dieters best friend. This will be very easy for you if it is summer time. Nothing beats a big salad when it gets too hot out to cook. This meal option can be great even when the weather cools off. You can even eat salad for several weeks without having the same one twice because there are so many ways to prepare them.

Salads can be loaded with fruits vegetables and in some cases, meat. These are all tasty low carb foods. Enjoy!

Many assume getting to eat all the meat they want is the best part of a low carb diet. While this is partly true-meat is, after all, carb free (for the most part)-it is also true that you can't eat just any old cut of meat. Meat, even if it doesn't have carbs, does have fat and other elements that aren't healthy. You should be using lean cuts of meat when preparing your meals and snacks. Be sure to get lean cuts of the beef, chicken, and fish already mentioned. When you limit the fat in your meat dishes, you will feel even better.

One great way to cut down on the carbs that you would normally eat at lunch (especially for those who are used to eating sandwiches or fast food for lunch) is to simply make large low carb dinners and then save the leftovers for lunch the next day. Because you'll know you have a tasty lunch waiting, you will be more likely to resist the call of fast food. Saving your leftovers for a few days will allow you to mix things up a little and will give you a variety to choose from. Lots of people think that the only thing they need to do to be healthy is to eat a low carb diet. This is not the case. When you start eating a low carb diet, you have to be provided with all of your nutrients and vitamins and keep your calorie intake low. One of the main things that make low carb diets hard to remain on is that most of the snacks that we want will have tons of carbs. If you do not have trouble making good decisions, you will see that eating low carb is not that hard.




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