The secret to a low-fat, multi-vegetarian Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue without gaining weight!

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and it is a good time for barbecue and eating grapefruit. However, eating too much barbecue and heavy flavors can easily cause weight gain, edema, bloating, and constipation. In fact, there are also tips for barbecue to be healthy and reduce weight gain!

When enjoying barbecue, people often eat too much greasy, high-calorie meat, such as beef, mutton, pork, sausage, bacon, saury, etc., as well as fish and offal containing high cholesterol. In addition, they eat too few vegetables and fruits, which can easily cause gastrointestinal burden and cause bloating and constipation. Patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia should be especially careful.

Many people like to use toast to sandwich grilled meat slices or grilled corn or sweet potatoes, but consuming too much starch can easily cause blood sugar to soar for those who are losing weight or have diabetes, and the calories are unimaginable. I would like to remind everyone that corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes are also starches and should not be eaten too much.

It is recommended to choose high-fiber vegetable foods, such as broccoli, onion, green onion, wild rice shoots, fresh mushrooms, bell peppers, etc. Eat the vegetables first to increase satiety to reduce meat intake; choose more meats with low fat content, such as chicken, seafood, lean pork slices, etc., try to avoid starch, and use lettuce and cabbage leaves instead of toast with meat slices to reduce calories. You can also consume more fiber and promote gastrointestinal motility.

Although heavy-flavored sauces such as barbecue sauce, ketchup, chili sauce, and shacha sauce can add to the deliciousness, a large amount of salt or MSG is added during the production process. These invisible high-salt and high-fat contents will cause water to be retained in the body once consumed in excess, making the face or lower body prone to swelling.

It is recommended to use light salt soy sauce with a little ginger, vinegar, onion, garlic, etc. to marinate meat, or add some rose salt to enhance the flavor when it is almost cooked; lemon juice, white vinegar, onion, garlic, diced onion, etc. can be added to seafood to enhance the flavor of the food and enjoy the freshness of the ingredients themselves; others such as enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, loofah and clams can be wrapped in aluminum foil, sprinkled with salt and chopped green onions to enhance the flavor, which will be sweet and delicious.

When barbecuing, alcohol or cold drinks such as cola are often indispensable. "Alcohol" belongs to the category of "damp heat" in traditional Chinese medicine. Excessive drinking is most likely to damage the spleen and stomach. Drinking a lot of cold drinks will also lead to increased dampness in the spleen and the phenomenon of "damp heat in the spleen and stomach". After drinking a lot of alcohol on the same day, you will find that your weight has increased by 2 kilograms the next morning. There may also be symptoms such as swelling of the face and lower eyelids, dry mouth, gastrointestinal bloating, dull pain, burning sensation or constipation.

You can make your own health tea to replace sugary drinks, remove oil, relieve greasiness and eliminate meat accumulation. For example , "Hawthorn Cassia Tea" can remove oil, relieve greasiness, unclog the intestines, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. The ingredients are 2 qian of hawthorn, 2 qian of cassia seed, 2 qian of poria, and 1 qian of tangerine peel. Wash the herbs, wrap them in a filter bag for repeated flushing, put them in a thermos, pour in 800cc of boiling water, and steep for 20 minutes before drinking.

This article comes from: Beautiful and Sweet Love─Dr. Zhang Wenxin's Chinese Medicine Beauty Book

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