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Salad Dressings And Controlling Your Diet
By Julia Taylor-Fernandez
Salad dressings can contain a lot of calories and may adversely
affect your diet control plans. If the only reason you are eating
salad is to control your weight, then use a low calorie salad
dressing as an appetizer on your salad.
Salads should contain only fruit and vegetables and with some
vegetable oil and a little vinegar. If you want to increase the
taste, you can add a low calorie salad dressing, to control your
weight.
Lose Weight By Eating Less Calories
You always see people who are on a diet eating salad, and you
see those same people weeks later saying their diet didn’t
work and they just can’t lose weight. It may be they do
have a hard time losing weight, but it may also be their salad
dressing.
If you review your options and look at the calories contained
in lettuce, tomato, and cucumber, for example, they are very low
calorie. This is why so many choose salads, but they don’t
realize what they are doing with the dressing.
Blue Cheese Salad Dressing
Most of the salad dressing you buy is very high in calories.
My favorite is blue cheese, and it has a whopping amount of calories
in each tablespoon.
If you think about how many tablespoons of salad dressing you
might put on your salad, you can see where you are killing your
diet. Just three of them can add up to over 300 calories.
Too Many Add–Ons In your Salad
The salad dressing is not the only problem. There are many other
things that people put on salads. If you look at any salad bar,
you will see where the problem lies. There are people who put
egg, bacon, cheese, and ham on salads.
They taste great that way, and if you aren’t dieting, they are
fine. However, if you want to lose weight and you think that those
salad toppings are okay, that might be one of the reasons why
your scale isn’t moving down. In fact, it might be moving
up.
If you are serious about dieting, but you still want to use your
salad dressing, take close note of calories. Remember that the
calorie per serving usually refers to one tablespoon, and that’s
not a lot.
Low Calorie Salad Dressing
There are many new types of salad dressings on the market that
are made to be very low calorie. They might not taste as rich
as the ones that you want to use, but if you give them a try for
a few weeks, you may find that they grow on you very quickly.
A healthy salad can help you lose weight as long as you don’t
include a high calorie salad dressing on your healthy salad. As
long as you are using a low calorie salad dressing, you should
lose weight over a period of time.
Your Reward May Be A Smaller Waistline
Just don’t add all those high calorie add–ons like
egg, bacon, ham, cheese and full calorie strength salad dressing
on your salad.
I have decided to avoid salad dressing altogether and just eat
a healthy salad. I have found that although I may be missing that
tangy taste, I am rewarded with a smaller waist line.
Every now and then I do include a little low calorie salad dressing
on my healthy salad. I just don’t add it to my salad every
day. This may be your solution to control your diet and lose those
pounds.
About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on dieting, nutrition and cooking including
General Nutrition,
Meal Plans,
Teapot Cake,
Low Carb Cheese Cake,
Fresh Fruit,
Nutritional Information,
Healthy Appetizers,
Low Carb Dinners,
Health Food Store.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
Can child food allergies ever be grown out of?
Most child food allergies do fade as the
child grows up. It is estimated that only 1-3% of adults actually
have a food allergy. But it is interesting to know that 5-8% of
children have a food allergy.
This does lend credence to the fact that
most children will outgrow their allergies to certain foods. But
you have to be careful about what foods you reintroduce to your
child.
If they have had a severe anaphylactic
reaction to nuts, then you may want to be very cautious about
giving them anything with nuts when they are older. The allergy
could still be present and it could be life threatening.
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