Lose Weight - Eat Fat and Carbs
Fats and carbohydrates are not all bad.
In fact we need them to lose weight.
There's a lot of information in the media, magazines and books that tout that we need to stop eating fats or cut out carbohydrates or do both to lose weight.
You will initially lose weight but you will have very low energy, feel bad and ultimately you will not be able to sustain the weightloss.
So let's take a look at what fats and carbohydrates are and why they are so important to a balanced and healthy weighloss plan.
We need fats for energy but it has an even more important role in fat soluble vitamins and the cushioning of our organs.
There are several different types of fat; polyunsatuated fats and monounsaturated fats.
You should get most of your limited fat intake from polyunsaturated fats (as in liquid corn oil or soybean oil) and monounsaturated fats (in olive oil, avocados, and nuts).
Limit saturated fats (beef, pork, veal, butter, shortening, and cheese).
So good fats come from vegetables and cold water fish such as salmon and fats from animals are what you want to limit.
You also want to avoid transfats (hydrogenated fats) which are found in stick margarine and in many processed foods such as crackers and cookies.
Transfats are now shown on the nutrition labels found on most packaged foods.
Transfats is a man made product and was created as an healthier alternative to butter which is a saturated fat that you want to limit but unfortunately transfats do more harm than saturated fats.
So it's actually better to have butter, then a cookie that has transfats in it.
Vegetable shortening such as Crisco is another man made fat that was meant to be a healthier alternative than pork lard, but you're better off eating lard than vegetable shortening.
Despite all of our technology voodoo we can't improve on mother nature.
My philosophy is to eat less processed foods and more natural foods that haven't been altered.
So now let's take a look at carbohydrates they give us the most energy.
Unfortunately it's gotten a bad rap, with the Atkins diets, and the media perpetuating that carbohydrates are something we should limit.
There are two types of carbohydrates - complex carbohydrates and simple sugars.
The simple sugar's are found in confectionery, cakes and biscuits, cereals, puddings, soft drinks and juices.
These are the carbohydrates that you want to limit somewhat.
Now complex carbohydrates are found in potatoes, rice, bread, wholegrain cereals, semi skimmed milk, yoghurt, fruit, vegetables, beans.
You want to eat more of these complex carbohydrates than simple sugar carbohydrates.
Complex carbohydrates are the ones that have all the vitamins and minerals compared to simple sugar carbohydrates which have very little and are what I call empty calories.
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Also complex carbohydrates are low in fat as long as you don't slap on loads of butter and fatty sauces.
To recap fats from non animal sources such as olive oil, sunflower oil and corn oil and cold water fish such as salmon are the healthier fats.
Complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain cereals and breads, rice, pasta, fruits and vegetables have the most nutrition.
Eating a moderate amount of these fats and carbohydrates will keep your energy up and your metabolism running on high to lose weight rather than totally excluding fat or carbohydrates which will result in very little weight loss and a sluggish metabolism.
In fact we need them to lose weight.
There's a lot of information in the media, magazines and books that tout that we need to stop eating fats or cut out carbohydrates or do both to lose weight.
You will initially lose weight but you will have very low energy, feel bad and ultimately you will not be able to sustain the weightloss.
So let's take a look at what fats and carbohydrates are and why they are so important to a balanced and healthy weighloss plan.
We need fats for energy but it has an even more important role in fat soluble vitamins and the cushioning of our organs.
There are several different types of fat; polyunsatuated fats and monounsaturated fats.
You should get most of your limited fat intake from polyunsaturated fats (as in liquid corn oil or soybean oil) and monounsaturated fats (in olive oil, avocados, and nuts).
Limit saturated fats (beef, pork, veal, butter, shortening, and cheese).
So good fats come from vegetables and cold water fish such as salmon and fats from animals are what you want to limit.
You also want to avoid transfats (hydrogenated fats) which are found in stick margarine and in many processed foods such as crackers and cookies.
Transfats are now shown on the nutrition labels found on most packaged foods.
Transfats is a man made product and was created as an healthier alternative to butter which is a saturated fat that you want to limit but unfortunately transfats do more harm than saturated fats.
So it's actually better to have butter, then a cookie that has transfats in it.
Vegetable shortening such as Crisco is another man made fat that was meant to be a healthier alternative than pork lard, but you're better off eating lard than vegetable shortening.
Despite all of our technology voodoo we can't improve on mother nature.
My philosophy is to eat less processed foods and more natural foods that haven't been altered.
So now let's take a look at carbohydrates they give us the most energy.
Unfortunately it's gotten a bad rap, with the Atkins diets, and the media perpetuating that carbohydrates are something we should limit.
There are two types of carbohydrates - complex carbohydrates and simple sugars.
The simple sugar's are found in confectionery, cakes and biscuits, cereals, puddings, soft drinks and juices.
These are the carbohydrates that you want to limit somewhat.
Now complex carbohydrates are found in potatoes, rice, bread, wholegrain cereals, semi skimmed milk, yoghurt, fruit, vegetables, beans.
You want to eat more of these complex carbohydrates than simple sugar carbohydrates.
Complex carbohydrates are the ones that have all the vitamins and minerals compared to simple sugar carbohydrates which have very little and are what I call empty calories.
.
Also complex carbohydrates are low in fat as long as you don't slap on loads of butter and fatty sauces.
To recap fats from non animal sources such as olive oil, sunflower oil and corn oil and cold water fish such as salmon are the healthier fats.
Complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain cereals and breads, rice, pasta, fruits and vegetables have the most nutrition.
Eating a moderate amount of these fats and carbohydrates will keep your energy up and your metabolism running on high to lose weight rather than totally excluding fat or carbohydrates which will result in very little weight loss and a sluggish metabolism.
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