In order to correctly lose weight, you need to understand the reasons for its gain and errors that prevent you from getting rid of those extra pounds. Especially if these mistakes are made in your kitchen, during the preparation of the next dishes. What is the most useful and correct way to cook for yourself?
Don’t use too much oil
The fact that you have replaced all the oils available at home with exceptionally healthy olive oils, for example, is very good. But what is useful always borders on quantity. Whatever one may say, oil is the fat that does not always benefit the figure, although it is necessary for the body as a whole. There are 120 calories in one tablespoon of oil. Enough for a salad, and try steaming vegetables and meat.
Don’t cook more than you can eat
Think carefully and calculate how much food you can eat and how many calories you need per meal, based on your daily calorie intake. An extra spoon, which you eat out of habit, the second, third – and now the extra weight. Although without them, admit it honestly, you do not feel hungry.
Experiment with recipes
Include ingenuity and imagination. For example, if a glass of heavy cream is partially replaced with yogurt or sour cream, it will turn out no worse, but much lower in calories. Cook baked goods not based on fermented milk products, but on the basis of fruit purees. Nothing terrible will happen if you do not add a third of sugar according to the recipe – often desserts are inveterate with a sweet tooth. Wheat flour can also be partially replaced with corn, oatmeal or buckwheat. In general, be interested, study and try!
Do not try
On salt, a little, out of habit, because of the feeling of hunger – it doesn’t count, it’s on the tip of a spoon – and so a decent high-calorie portion is collected. If this is not a complicated recipe that requires jewelry proportions, then nothing will happen unless you add a little bit of salt to it. If you still need to try, write it down in your food diary and cut the usual portion.
Don’t eat up the leftovers
The food won’t grow legs and they won’t run out of your refrigerator until tomorrow. Even if the dish turned out to be very tasty and it is hard for you to not finish it to the end, think about enjoying its taste again a little later – on the next meal or the next day.