Yummy foods you can eat on a diet

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Yummy foods you can eat on a diet

Good news!

Yes, you know you need a life-long healthy eating plan. Will you have to nibble on rabbit food for the rest of your days? Nope! Good news -- there are plenty of choices which are healthy and low-glycemic.

Getting through

There are even some surprise foods that may not help you lose weight, but may help you keep from blowing your plan. These aren’t "free foods," (check your Glycemic Index!) but foods that, when eaten occasionally, may get you through those particularly tempting times.

Snickers?!?!

A Snickers candy bar? Really? Is there a Snickers diet? Well, no -- sorry! Eating a Snickers won’t help you lose weight. However, it does have a low glycemic number because of the fat and protein in it. Eating one bar instead of a higher glycemic treat will satisfy you and keep you from feeling deprived. Wouldn’t you rather have a Snickers than a handful of vanilla

Cream cheese!

Here is another surprise for you — cream cheese. You probably thought it was the cream cheese on the bagel that was adding the inches to your waistline. Actually, it was the bagel! Cream cheese is on the green-for-go list. The fat and dairy components make it slow to digest and so gives a slow sugar release into the bloodstream.
It has a glycemic number of zero. That’s right -- zero. It does, however, have 9 grams of fat and about 100 calories in a one-ounce serving. That’s about two tablespoons or so. You won’t want to eat the whole block of cream cheese in one sitting!

Pasta

Here’s another food you probably thought you could never see again on a healthy eating plan — pasta. Most pasta, when cooked al dente, is low to low/moderate on the glycemic index. That doesn’t mean that your whole diet can consist of pasta, but it does mean that pasta can be a good switch for a higher glycemic side like rice or potatoes. It also means that you can use favorite recipes with pasta and low glycemic sauce ingredients.

Yes, spaghetti!

Spaghetti, for example has a low GI number of 23, which puts it on the green list. It has 220 calories for a one-cup serving, though, so it is not a low calorie food.

Whipped cream!

It’s amazing what a little whipped cream can do to make a bland dish into a indulgent-feeling dessert. Yes, I said whipped cream. Like most dairy products, whipped cream has a zero glycemic number and, a 1/4 cup serving has about 90 calories.

Guacamole!

The last in our series of surprise low-glycemic foods is another which you probably avoided in other diets -- guacamole. The avocado has received a bad rap over the years and is listed as an exception in the “eat fruits and vegetables” chapter of many diet books. That’s because avocados do contain fat and are higher in calories than most other vegetables. One fifth of an avocado has 50 calories. However, the fat is one of the “good fats.”
Also, the fats and fiber make the avocado low glycemic, even though it is higher in calories. Avocados are high in some essential nutrients, too. They contain significant amounts of Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, magnesium, lutein, Vitamin E, potassium, and folate. When you eat Mexican food, it’s nice to know you don’t have to skip the guacamole!

Be careful out there!

So can you live on guacamole and Snickers and still lose weight? No, but if you carefully use these surprise low glycemic foods to help you stay on track, you may find that they do, indeed, help you reach your long-term healthy weight goal!

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