Carbohydrates are a scary word for anyone who is losing weight. Let's dispel the myth about their harm. Carbohydrates are the key to health and a beautiful figure. The main thing is to choose the right carbohydrates and eat them at the right time.
Recently, carbohydrate-free diets have become very popular in the world of dietetics. You can often find diets high in protein and even fat, but carbohydrates bypass everything. There are even diets that completely exclude carbohydrates from our diet (for example, the Ducan diet). But none of the authors of these diets warn about their harmful effects on health. Today I will tell you how you can eat rice, pastries, pasta and lose weight!
Of course, it is much easier to completely abandon certain products than to understand their composition, and then it is more to cook yourself. But don't we want to be healthy and happy? After all, carbohydrates are responsible not only for the health of our diet, but also are the most important condition for our good mood. Surely you often noticed when you were on diets that the joy of life disappears, thoughts only about food, about sweet, chocolate, "well, when will this hellish diet end?" And all this from a lack of carbohydrates in your diet.
So what are carbohydrates and how can you tell the "bad" from the "good"? There are two types of carbohydrates: simple carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, white rice, pasta, ice cream, chocolate, etc.) and complex (whole grain flour, oatmeal, wild rice, buckwheat, barley, legumes, durum wheat pasta and etc.).
Simple carbohydrates, as you might have guessed, are the bad carbohydrates. Their unpleasantness lies, first of all, in the fact that they all sharply increase blood sugar levels, as a result of which our appetite increases after we have eaten a chocolate or a bun, the feeling of hunger does not go away, but on the contrary intensifies. This is a chemical process that provokes simple sugars that are contained in simple carbohydrates. The second minus of simple carbohydrates is their uselessness. Even if after eating a bun you did not reach for a second, then hunger The thing is that the body spends a minimum of energy on the digestion of simple carbohydrates. They are easily digested and deposited in fat on our body. Unfortunately, there is no benefit in such carbohydrates.
Complex carbohydrates, on the other hand, have only positive properties and enrich our body. Complex carbohydrates differ from simple ones by the presence of fiber, about the benefits of which you can slogan poems. Fiber is contained in the hull of the grain, which is removed entirely to produce premium flour or milled rice, but it persists in wholemeal flour and wild (unpolished) rice, for example. Fiber is digested by the body for much longer, thereby giving saturation for a longer period than simple carbohydrates. In addition, fiber, entering the intestines, helps to cleanse it. Passing through the intestines, it collects all the "muck" that has accumulated in it for a long time and removes it naturally.
But even complex carbohydrates in large quantities or at the wrong time for them can become our obstacle on the way to a slim figure. Carbohydrates are primarily a source of energy for our body, this is our "gasoline". Therefore, it is important to eat them when you still have time to "burn" them, otherwise our energy will be stored "in reserve", that is, in excess fat on the body.
The most correct habit that we have been instilled in since childhood is porridge for breakfast. The right time for carbs is in the morning. The body has awakened from sleep and requires "gasoline" on which it will work all day. What you eat in the morning will never be stored in reserve! Therefore, in the morning, you can even afford a simple carbohydrate, if you really want to (but for those who are losing weight, a piece of chocolate in the morning should be the exception rather than the rule, because we are losing weight without prohibitions, without restrictions! You can easily add a side dish for lunch (brown rice, lentils, chickpeas, beans, pearl barley, buckwheat, etc.), but in less quantity than in the morning. But for dinner it is still better to avoid carbohydrates, because in the evening we do not need carbohydrates and all excess fat will remain on our sides.
