So you wish to get into some kind of dietary program or non-formal healthy eating practice to reduce calories and avoid getting fat. Good luck. The food web is obviously built on calories and fat and the world seems to be too tight to find ourselves an escape from luscious cuisines.

Here’s a tip: Sort out foods low in calories and either avoid them or regulate your consumption. Let’s start off with morning meals:

Black Coffee    12kcal/cup

Bread     55kcal/slice

Buttermilk    85kcal /cup

Cornflakes    100/cup

Egg     75 kcal/piece

Egg Sandwich   265 cal/serving

Jams     50 kcal/tbsp

Milk     19kcal/30 gm

Vegetable Sandwich   167 kcal/serving

Tea     10 kcal/cup

You may or may not be a breakfast person and we bet these are the common items on the table before you start the day. It does not matter what time during the morning you take them, the calorie content stays unless you modify them. Now let us check the possible choices for lunch and dinner:

Apple Juice    50 kcal/ half cup

Banana    100kcal/ piece

Chapatti    100kcal/ serving

Chicken (boiled)   100 kcal/ half

Chicken Leg roast   90 kcal/ serving

Chicken Soup    80 kcal/ cup

Chicken Thigh Roast   95 kcal/ serving

Chowmin    150kcal/ half cup

Mushroom cream soup  100 kcal/cup

Mutton soup    110kcal/cup

Onion (fried)    101kcal/30 gms.

Potato (boiled)  100 kcal/piece

Potato (fried)    200kcal/piece

Rice (boiled)    200kcal/serving

Spaghetti    104kcal/30 gms.

Tomato soup    100kcal/cup

Vegetable Oil    110kcal/tbsp

Vegetable soup   100 kcal/cup

Vegetables and fruits are never high in calories they are the ideal food and it would be best to focus your diet on them. If you surely take snacks in between meals, you should know this: Junk or processed foods are high in calories and fats as there are some raw foods that release certain amounts of fat, salts, and oils when processed. Although you can have a serving or two of, say, potato chips once in a while, a professional dietitian won’t advise junk foods if you are serious about dieting. 

In dieting, this rule is always in place: You may not be able to always have what you want, or if you want it, you can indulge only moderately. It’s your choice. The food chart mentioned is not provided to scare you. The reason why you enroll in a diet program is for you to know the calorie content of certain food groups and develop control over the food you eat, you should know how they work inside our systems, and eventually achieve your dream figure and health status.



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Saturday, March 1st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
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