As long as you can understand carbs and sugars you are halfway there. Again your body turns sugars (including things like fruit) and carbohydrates into glucose. Carbs and sugars are the easiest things to turn into glucose. If your diet is high in carbs and sugars and fats your body will store the fat in the usual places.
If you are serious about being healthy and slim then you do need to look at everything you eat. To make your body live on mainly fats you need to lower your carb intake to below 50 grams of carbs a day. Easy as you say but thats only 4 slices of white toast bread.
So you will only eat fruit and vege’s, one apple and one peach thats 27 grams of carbs, half way to your day’s target. One large carrot 10 grams and one tomato 12 grams. You now see how even eating healthy can put weight on.
Generally any vegetable that grows above the ground is lower in carbs than those that grow below. I’m not saying don’t eat the below ground stuff just eat them sparingly. Berries have the lowest amount of carbs. Meats are high in fats and have no carbs but your body does turn protein into glucose so eat more fish and chicken. Meats should be the highest food group to eat.
Eat other fats like butter, avoid artificial spreads which are harmful.
Things to avoid include white flower (70 percent of white flower is carbs) and everything containing this flower. includes pasta’s, corn flours. All is not lost as we have put recipies and alternatives to carbs, sugars and flowers on this blog. If you are not sure on what I am saying here google it and make your own mind up. If you are gluten intolerant then be carefull with some alternative flowers.
Look at the back of packets when you shop for carb content. Once you get the hang of this you will only visit 2 or 3 isle’s in the whole supermarket. But be warned anything that is really healthy is expensive but you will save money by not having to pay for weight watchers (look at the amount of carbs in weight watchers meals at the supermarket, you slim by porsion size).
We have spent hours researching all this stuff for our own well being and our intension is to show you our journey and not push you into anything, we encourage you to look things up and make your own mind up.
below is a pyramid guide to how much of different food groups to eat.
