Nutritional tips to avoid gaining weight during the fast!

Lent is a great chance to detoxify our body, taking out from our diet the numerous animal fats that burden our health and add weight to our body. Still, despite the benefits of fasting, there is always a danger of overdoing it with Lenten food, wrongly assuming that they have fewer calories simply because they do not contain meat or dairy. As a result, we gain weight and all our efforts get wasted!

So, how can we avoid the missteps and not gain weight during the fast? Read the following tips and get the silhouette of your dreams while making the most of the benefits of the fast!

Mind the oil

Animal fats may be replaced by plant oils, with olive oil as a first pick, but overusing it in cooking could raise the caloric value of your meals. In addition, oily dishes often urge us to enjoy them with far greater quantities of bread or other carbohydrates, like pasta.

 
 3 main meals and 3 fruit snacks

Balance during and between meals is important for the balanced allocation of calories. Follow the golden rule of 3 main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), with an equal number of nuts or fruit snacks in between.

Avoid pasta

Overconsumption of carbohydrates tends to bloat us instead of sating us. Hence, no matter how interesting culinary creations they may offer, better avoid overconsuming pasta of all sorts, because they tend to add weight around our waist without offering any valuable proteins. 

Prefer whole grain products

Whole grain products are rich in plant fibres and are very nutritious. Being only lightly processed, they maintain their vitamins and other elements. That’s why cereals like wheat, oat, barley, corn, groats, and rice are far superior to husked grains. In a period of dietary privation, like the Lent fast, it is important to keep ourselves protected, and that’s why whole grain products should never miss from our salads and wraps.

Opt for protein-rich foods

Fast certainly means abstaining from meat, but not necessarily from rather important proteins essential to our body. Plant fibres are called to fill the void, combining the benefits of meat with zero danger of saturated fats. Better include foods likes legumes, peanut butter, and tahini (sesame paste), as well as organic soy, which is rich in amino acids.

Avoid fried food

Fasting or not, doctors and nutritionists recommend a limited consumption of fried food because, aside from unwholesome, they are literally a caloric bomb for our body, being rather difficult to burn. Especially during a fast, the last thing you want is the headache… of trans fats, which abound in every stodgy fried food.

Whether we fast or not, adopting an overall healthy profile should always be the case. Apart from a good life quality and longevity, it offers us good health, well-being and makes us feel more connected with our body and its needs. Therefore, keep these useful tips even after Lent, and adapt your dietary habits to healthier standards throughout the year.

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