Can I get some fat with my carbs please?

Now if you freaked out at reading that sentence then we need to break it down for thee!!  So when we’re talking about carbs, obviously, you know, that we know, that you know we are not talking ’bout bread and pasta etc, cos that’s the wheaty stuff and that be the stuff that will bloat the best of bellies and make thee tired.  So let’s first just do a little carb break down.

Amazing carbs that you didn’t even realise were carbs:

1.All bright and beautiful veggies – spinach, peppers, broccoli, courgettes, carrots
2.All fruits, although the tropical variety tend to be high in sugar…oops…so we like antioxidant berries, they’re def at the top of the FG fruit list!!

Your classic carbs that you will recognise as carbs:

1. All good starchy carbs – brown rice, rye bread (wheat-free honies), sweet potato

Wheaty carbs – these babies bloat you:

1. wholewheat pasta, wholewheat bread (notice we use wholewheat not the white stuff that’s had all of the goodness sucked out of it!!…see below)

Refined carbs, that need a mention cos they’re still carbs and can have their effect tamed mildly by good fats:

1. Refined carbs – white bread, pastries, cakes, biscuits

OK, so when you eat carbohydrates on their own, whatever the variety, they convert into sugar in your bloodstream.  The amazing carbs that you didn’t even realise were carbs do this to a lesser extent than the other carbs, particularly the refined carbs.  Now we harp on about you eating protein with every meal cos this slows down the rate at which sugar gets absorbed into the bloodstream, reducing the likelihood of a sugar high followed by a low.  Now good fat has the same effect.  So drizzling some olive oil on your salad or gorgeous veggies will slow down this sugar thing, leaving you satisfied and not craving more carbs…usually of the processed variety!!  We like olive oil or coconut oil for cooking and extra virgin for salads.  The slower the rate of sugar absorption into the bloodstream, the less like that stuff gets stored as fat…you dig!!

Related posts:

1. A Perfect Food Day – Part II
2. Food myth number 2 – Low carbing helps you lose weight