How to Eat Healthily at an Indian Restaurant: South Wales Nutrition Expert Explains

Cardiff Bootcamp guru and Cardiff Personal Training expert explains how you can eat healthily in many restaurants. “I go to many lovely restaurants in Cardiff with my family and I am always, looking for healthy options. Restaurants in Cardiff are pretty good and the waiters are extremely helpful in helping you choose a healthy option, to help you reach your weight loss goals while still having a lovely meal”.

The key to eating healthily is to make sensible food choices. Avoid alcahol when going out for meals as this will severely affect your judgement. Plus alcahol packs on more calories, fat and empty (useless) carbohydrates into your system. Drink water with your meal and score ten out of ten for your food choices and decision making.

Indian food is loaded with empty calories and it is extremely high in trans fats. These saturated fats have absolutelyno benefit to your bodily functions and will serve little purpous rather than clogging arteries, raising blood pressure and increasing your ody fat percentage. Indian foods should be a one off treat and should not be consumed reularly.

All the food that you see at an Indian restaurant is maufactured/processed food. A cave man or your great, great, great. great grandparents couldnt have eaten a chicken korma, rice, naan and popadoms. Were your great, great, graet, great grandparents overweight? Is a caveman from hundreds of centuries ago overweight? Certainly not. The point I’m trying to make is that in order to get fit, we must eat heathily. Indian food does not come into the healthy category, in fact it is totally the oppositte.

Indian food is predominantly made with ghee. his is basically pure fat and has absolutely no nutritional value. The worst dishes for ghee are buttered dishes such as butered chicke and korma, such as chicken korma. Due to the high content of ghee, these dishes are extrelmely high calorie.

One of my biggest calorie savers is to swap fried rice for pilau rice or boiled rice. This will save you hundreds of calories and around 25 grams of fat. This small change on rice emphasises the importance of healthy food choices. By choosing the fried rice your body is subject to 25 grams of extra fat and 400 extra calories.

When eating at an Indian restaurant, take a look at how the food has been cooked. This is another superb tip! Fried, battered and crispy describe unhealthy ways to cook food, where as grilled, steamed and boiled resemble healthier options. This will save you hundreds and hundreds of more calories per dish. Your waistline will be gretful!

Sam O’Sullivan is the owner of Cardiff Weightloss Clinic.

 He runs successful a successful Cardiff personal Training Company.

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