Eat out to lose weight and eat light hot pot for dinner

Of the three meals a day, dinner is the one that gives you the most opportunity to enjoy your meal leisurely and slowly. However, for those who want to lose fat and lose weight, dinner is the key to successful weight loss, especially for those who have to eat out after get off work before going home. They can easily consume nearly a thousand calories by eating a pork ribs bento or barbecued pork rice to fill their stomachs. To master the tricks of dinner, the foreign website "EatingWell" offers several tips on how to eat out for dinner for those who want to lose weight.

When eating out for dinner, pay attention to the cooking methods and seasoning of the meal, and try to eat until you are 60% full. (picture/)

Tip 1: 3:2:1 servings for three meals

The body's metabolism slows down as it gets closer to night, so don't think about rewarding yourself at night and going out for a big meal. The calories you take in at night will accumulate in the body and be stored as fat, making it more difficult to lose weight. It is recommended that the proportion of dinner should be one-third of that of breakfast, that is, eat until you are about 60% full. It is best not to eat again 3 hours before going to bed. Eating dinner too late is also one of the reasons that cause gastrointestinal burden and digestive system problems.

Tip 2: Low Carb

There is nothing wrong with starch, but you will not lose weight if you eat too much of it, especially during dinner. The body is about to enter a resting stage and does not need to consume starch to replenish energy for activities. Therefore, one of the tips for dinner is to reduce the amount of starch in dinner.

For example, if you originally had a bowl of wonton noodles for dinner, the noodles are refined starch, and the wontons are filled with minced meat, and the dry noodles will contain more fat, so a small bowl of calories is not low; you can change to eating a whole wheat steamed bun with a cup of milk or soy milk, which can supplement protein and whole wheat, and has richer nutritional value than noodles.

When you go to a noodle stall, don't choose thickened soup or dry noodles, as they are much higher in calories. (Photography by Huang Zilun)

Tip 3: Small hot pot is low in calories and filling

If you are not sure about the calories and nutritional value of each ingredient, and are afraid of ordering too many calories, you can go to a small hot pot restaurant and choose the lightest Japanese tofu hot pot or Korean kimchi hot pot; the ingredients include tofu, enoki mushrooms, glass noodles, cabbage, eggs, etc. Vegetables can provide dietary fiber, and tofu is also a source of protein. It is filling and low in calories, making it a good choice for dinner.

Tip 4: Avoid sauces and heavy-tasting foods

Don’t underestimate the flavorful sauce; it may be the reason you keep eating more for dinner. Soy sauce, soy sauce paste, sesame sauce, etc., although they are just ingredients, the calories they contain are very alarming. Any food whose name reveals that it is marinated in sauce should be avoided as much as possible for dinner, such as honey pork ribs rice, fried noodles with soybean paste, sesame noodles, etc.

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