i like sandwhiches. is it ok to eat them while trying to burn body fat? wut kinds of things should i and should i not put on them (mayo, cheese, mustard, pickles, etc...)? thanks...
Sandwhiches
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Use wholegrain bread. Try to avoid Butter, Margerine and Cheese. If you HAVE to eat those thing use the low fat stuff.
Good stuff to have on them is lean Chicken breast, Beef and leafy greens. Avocado is also good for those heathy fats.
If you are really serious about burning fat you need to understand nutrients and calories. You need to eat a calorie deficeit, but not too much or you'll lose muscle as well and that is counter productive. The best way to do this is to keep a food log and record everything you eat. Dividing your meals up into six small meals, instead of three is also a good idea. Try and eat protein with every meal.
Here's a good online food log.
Why avoid butter and cheese?
also, going for the low fat option is not always the healthiest due to the large amount of what i can only call sh*t they subsititute real ingredients for.
for example butter will be 'purer' than most margerines, whilst i stopped buying low fat houmous and went back to regular as most the ingredients ended in "...enzine".
i think your better off knowing what you're eating and just controlling serving sizes.
for example butter will be 'purer' than most margerines, whilst i stopped buying low fat houmous and went back to regular as most the ingredients ended in "...enzine".
i think your better off knowing what you're eating and just controlling serving sizes.
is turkey breast a lean meat?
only if its whole sliced turkey breast...not 'deli style' which is usually processed turkey 'loaf' (which gives you nice uniformly sized slices of meat, tons of sodium, preservatives, and gelatin fillers...not the best stuff).
and on a cut, no, stay off the bread as much as possible. even whole grain bread is STILL processed carbs.
Whole grain means WHOLE grain...oatmeal, barley, rice....not ground into a powder, bleached, enriched, etc.
especially on a cut.
Question:
If you bake your own bread and use non processed flour for it, will that be ok?
WHY? fat doesn't make you fat....excess calories make you fat, and its arguable that excess calories from carbs are the most easily stored as fat.
I purposely take fish oil caps, nuts and natty PB every day to make sure I'm getting at least 70g of fat a day in my diet.
Some people tolerate bread very well. others don't.
Karky, even if you make your own bread, it may be better than store bought stuff, but still not an equivalent substitute for actual whole grains. when doing this, try to get the least processed, non-enriched flour, something like a stone ground wheat, which will be coarser and less refined than the traditional flour we're used to. add wheat germ, slightly ground flaxseed, and stuff like that to beef up the nutrition in homemade bread.
Yes, I'm a bit of a food nazi, and I"m ok with that.
so a good sandwhich would consist of wheat bread, lean lunchmeat, leaf lettuce? wut about onions, tomatoes, pickles, and mustard?
Ham and cheese or plain old salmon sandwiches on white bread does it for me (although wholemeal is better)
I was under the impression that mayo consisted of a large portion of saturated fat. Except I just checked a label and it's roughly 15% saturated fat and 85% non-saturated fat.
saturated fats are bad and non-saturated fats are good?
yes, i have been told about it in this forum. i signed up last night but i haven't taken a good look around yet.