26089 Cutting back on dietary fat in your food and drink
Cutting back on dietary fat in your food and drink
If it were easy to maintain or regain an ideal healthy weight, our nation wouldn’t be one of the fattest on the face of the earth.
However, it’s not, so we have to deal with reality and the reality is this:
We eat too much and we don’t exercise enough.
As the saying goes, you will NEVER out train bad eating habits. It can’t be done and it won’t be done. Period.
So what is the answer? Following a fat reduction-eating plan. Notice it said fat reduction, not fat elimination; you must have fats in your diet to live. Without fat, vitamins A, D, E, and K, have a difficult, if not impossible time, of being absorbed into the body.
Any meal plan that contains more calories than your body uses will cause excess fat to build up. This isn’t rocket science; it’s simply good sense. Once eating this way becomes a habit your body will thank you for taking such good care of it. It’s easy to start.
Begin by looking at the food labels and becoming aware of the contents. Now gradually cut back on those with saturated and transfats listed in the ingredients section.
The evidence is overwhelming that eating a diet rich in plant foods, fruits, whole grains, and low fat is conducive to lowering the risks of getting cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases such as a heart attack and a stroke.
Losing weight is simpler if the amount of fat in your diet is at a reasonable amount. Recall from your high school science class that each gram of protein and carbohydrate contains four calories.
Fat on the other hand comes in over double that amount at nine calories per gram. So it’s no wonder that a couple of handfuls of potato chips each night packs the fat on is it?
In order to make your life healthier here are a few suggestions to consider in reducing your fat consumption.
When making gravies, soups and stews let them set and cool off. Once cool, the fat rises to the top and can be skimmed off and tossed out.
Get used to drinking skim milk. It may take a few days, or in the case of the hard-core full fat, high calorie, fat filled, non-healthy milk drinker a few months. Start out with a 2% reduced fat, graduate to the 1%, and finally into the fat free skim milk.
If you think you are eating substantially less fat in the 1% and 2% types compared to the whole milk think again. It is almost an insignificant difference.
Other ways to cut back on the dairy fat is to try the fat free yogurts, reduced fat cheeses, fat free or low fat sour cream, and cream cheese.
Put a few of these ideas into practice over the seven days and you will notice the difference in your health and appearance.