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.