Breakfast Menu
Too many working women skip breakfast and then gobble down the wrong foods after they've checked in with the boss. Take-out breakfast from fast-food establishment are very high in fat, salt, sugar, and cholesterol-typically eggs, croissants, doughnuts, sweet rolls, fried ham, sausages, or bacon. Commercial bran muffins are likely to be high in sugar and saturated fats. Fruited yogurt contains 140 calories of heavily sugared preserves and 140 calorie of yogurt. Watch out for bagels with cream cheese and for commercial granola, usually high in fat and sugar. Nondairy creamers are a bad idea because they're made of corn syrup and coconut oil.
Time to eat.
The following suggestions will help you to eat well without putting on those pounds:
What To Eat
- Eat at least five servings of fresh fruit a day. Fresh fruit does not lead to obesity, as some people erroneously believe. To the contrary, in addition to having very low energy density (few calories in lot of weight), it provides vitamins and fiber that inhibit obesity.
Eating Outside
Here are some tips for eating out and staying on track when you're on the Protein Power Plan:
- You may occasionally have a single 3-ounce glass of dry red or white wine or light beer, but they will add 3 to 4 grams of carbohydrates to your meal.
- These beverages are okay: diet soda, water, mineral water, tea or coffee without sugar.
cooked fish
In the Netherlands, researchers discovered that those who ate an ounce of fish a day had half the heart attack rate of those who didn't eat fish. Some suggested this was because the fatty acid EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) kept the blood from clotting. Later, however, studies in Canada and Norway revealed that fish eaters and non-fish eaters have no difference in heart attack rate. Even the original Netherlands study showed that fish contains very little EPA. It was then suggested the selenium in the fish may have done some good.
Fat is a worldwide obsession. Over 80 million Americans are overweight. Everybody wants to lose all that excess poundage - but at the same time, we don't want to give up a single thing we love. The bad news is that there is still no magic formula to get rid of fat forever. But certain foods have the exciting potential to make us slim and trim. There is new evidence that when it comes to body fat, it isn't necessarily how much you eat - but what you eat - that really counts.
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