Confessions of a Carb Junkie
Today
I want to tell you a little secret about me. I am a Carb junkie. I have
suspected this for a while and now I know. And why would you be
interested to know this?
Maybe you are as well; and maybe you just cannot shift that last few kilos or hav reached a weight loss plateau
What does it mean to be a Carb Junkie? In my world it means that I eat too many Carbohydrates for my lifestyle.
Why does our body need Carbs? Carbs are the main fuel for our muscles.
What are good Carbs?
Good Carbs are unprocessed carbohydrates in the "natural" state or very close to natural state; minamally altered or treated.
Leafy Green vegetables are about the best
Fruits provide good carbs
Beans and legumes are also, generally, included on the
'good carbs' list, as are nuts and seeds.
Whole-grain cereal foods -
including whole-grain breads and pastas - are considered by many to be good
carb foods
How much/ how many carbs do I need? and here is some brand new information for me. I need only about 80-100 grams of carbs per day
Which carbs have how many grams of carbohydrate?
Let me give you just a few examples.
If you are really interested you might like to buy a Carb Counter from
the newsagent. It might be interesting for you to track your carcb
intake for a few days or a couple of weeks - you might be surprised just
how many carbs you eat.
100g of Yoghurt ranges from:
19g carbs for the fruit low fat varieties to
4.6g carbs for the plain low fat
a cup of brown rice cooked is about 45 g carbs
a cup of cooked white rice is about 55g carbs
an apple is about 14g carb
100grms of blueberries is about 14 g of carbs
a slice of rye bread is 14g per slice
2 slices of Turkish toast is 80g carbs - almost the whole days carb allowance
I discovered very quickly that every
day I was eating way more Carbs than I was burning fuel. No wonder
those couple of holiday kilos were proving stubborn to move. It is a
wonder I wasn't gaining more weight.
So I now eat less carbs and mostly I eat them in the first half of the day and this is making a difference; a slow difference.
Remember carbs give us fuel for our
muscles. If we are reasonably sedentary then we don't need much muscle
fuel and we don't need many carbs. And of course, if you do want to eat
more Carbs then then you just need to get those muscles moving.
Have a great rest of your week and here's to Healthy Wealthy You
Ingrid Louise
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Posted by Healthy Wealthy at 10/7/2011 4:08 PM 
Categories: Eating Habits
Tags: carbs healthy eating too many carbs how to lose the last 5 kilos
Categories: Eating Habits
Tags: carbs healthy eating too many carbs how to lose the last 5 kilos
clever!
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