Can I drink coffee? – the 10 most common – Dietetics – Articles |

1. Can I drink coffee?

Yes, but try to limit its amount to e.g. max. 2 coffees a day. Don’t sweeten her. Add milk to 2% fat if you like. Try not to use cream, condensed milk or cream powder. Choose coffee beans and avoid instant coffees. We wrote more about coffee in: ‘Coffee do you know what you’re drinking?’

2. Do I need to exercise for the diet to be effective?

Exercises perfectly support the fight against extra kilos. It is therefore worth including them from the very beginning in the weight loss process. You don’t have to become Ewa Chodakowska or Ania Lewandowska right away and practice at this level. If you are obese, start with brisk walking or swimming. As you weigh less and less, your condition will keep getting better. Then you will be able to increase the frequency and intensity of exercise. More on this in the article ‘To exercise or not to exercise?’

3. Are these meals really salt-free?

Yes. If you find it difficult to give up salting completely, you can add max. half a teaspoon of salt throughout the day. Replace salt with herbal, homogeneous spices. Avoid spice mixes. They usually also have salt in them. In the beginning, it will be difficult to live without salt. However, after about 2 weeks, the body gets used to the taste of salt. In the article: ‘It’s time to crack down on salt’, we expanded on this topic.

4. Do I have to eat all of these meals proposed in the diet?

Yes. Paradoxically, to lose weight you need to eat. You often think that to lose weight you have to starve yourself. It’s not true. The body needs nutrients to function properly.

5. Can you sweeten your tea?

Not. When losing weight, but also when changing your lifestyle, it is worth giving up sugar completely. If you can’t quit sugar right away, try reducing the number of teaspoons of sugar until you get to the day when you don’t need it at all.

6. Can I eat fruit between meals?

Yes and no. Daily consumption should not exceed about 200-300 g of fruit. This translates to e.g. 2 apples. However, you can even eat vegetables in unlimited quantities (all except legumes) on a slimming diet. How to deal with snacking, you will learn from this article: ‘Stop snacking’

7. How do we weigh dry products (eg groats, rice, pasta) before or after cooking?

We always weigh all products before cooking.

In addition to standard questions, we sometimes get quite surprising questions. The most memorable for me:

8. Can groats be cooked?

To my surprise, one of my clients asked me to suggest cooked groats in the next diet plans, because raw groats were difficult for her to swallow. Of course, the groats had to be cooked. The misunderstanding resulted from the fact that such information was not included in the description of the preparation. Fortunately, eating raw porridge did not end up in the hospital.

9. Can frozen food be cooked?

A similar situation was related to frozen foods. One of the clients, “very desperate”, looking for magic in the prescribed diet and wanting to follow it with full conscientiousness, ate it cold right after taking it out of the freezer. It cost her quite a lot of unpleasant sensations. The whole thing came to light after the client asked us to propose frozen food in the form of “hot”.

10. Do you have to eat the orange peel or throw it away?

There was also a person who ate an orange with its skin on.

What a person is different dietary concerns. When you have gone through many miracle diets, which required you to go through different phases, rules, switching to a healthy diet, you also expect magic. You can do anything to lose weight, even eat frozen vegetables or dry porridge. That is why I always say: ‘whoever asks does not err’, and thus usually harms himself less.

And for you, what were the most difficult questions when changing your eating style?

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