Understanding Good Carbohydrates Vs Bad Carbs And Selecting Healthy Food For Weight Loss: Some Tips To Improve Your Diet Plan

There are much confusion about the topic of good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates in recent years... this could help clear up some of that confusion for you and set you on a clearer path to lifelong fat loss success and healthier eating.

Firstly, a lot of people aren't "low carb" believers (many certainly don't think extremely low carbohydrate diets are healthy), but do believe that among the chief reasons that the vast majority of people struggle to ever reduce weight is that they are over-consuming processed refined carbohydrates for example pasta, bagels, breads, cereals, rice, muffins, sodas, juices, chocolates, crackers etc.

Even carbohydrate sources that most people think are "healthy" really are just excess calories that don't really contain significant nutrient density... and many varieties of breads and cereals claim to be "whole grain" through clever marketing although in truth, the first ingredient in them is refined flour, which one is just gonna spike your blood sugar and create an insulin surge. After years of eating excess processed carbohydrates, it becomes harder and harder for insulin to do it's job and continue managing all of this blood sugar, and insulin resistance and eventual type 2 diabetes can occur in many people.

For many people, the opinion on this is that the majority of people struggling to lose weight would get much better results by following these sorts of guidelines:

1. Decrease overall grain-based foods in your diet plan (pasta, cereal, crackers, rice, etc) and focus more of your diet on healthy free range, grass-fed meats and eggs, raw grass-fed dairy, and a whole a lots of vegetables.

2. Rather than grains for most of your carbohydrate intake, try getting most of your carbs from veggies, sweet potatoes, and a variety of berries and whole fruits (NOT fruit juices, which eliminate the useful fiber and other significant nutrients in the fruit)

3. If you're gonna get any grains at all, concentrate on the most nutrient dense and fibrous portions of the grain... the bran and the germ. Which means the healthiest ideas are using oat bran instead of oat meal, and using wheat germ and rice bran by adding them to your salads, yogurt, cottage cheese, soups, smoothies, etc. This technique you get all of the most nutrient dense portions of the grains without all of the excess starches and calories.

4. To replace the void if you're accustomed to consuming large quantities of cereals, bread, pasta, and other carbohydrate sources... try filling that void with additional healthy fats such as avocados, guacamole, nuts, seeds, nut butters as well as healthy proteins like grass-fed raw dairy and grass fed meats, whole free-range organic eggs, etc. Healthful fats and protein sources go a long means to satisfying your appetite, controlling proper blood sugar and hormone levels, and assisting you to make real progress on weight loss for life.

With all of that said, here's one a favorite carbohydrate source that is high in fiber and also contains a high density of antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, and minerals... it's yams and/or sweet potatoes. Try slicing them into slim slivers and sauteing them with a couple of tablespoons of water in a pan for about five minutes for a faster healthy carb (rather than baking them for over an hour). Finish them off with a touch of grass-fed organic butter and a few cinnamon and you've got a delicious and healthy carbohydrate side dish!