Living Right - Losing Weight

Chicken eggs have been a human food since prehistoric times.
Throughout this time, we have learned a great deal about eggs and why are good or      bad for us.
I want to talk about eggs as part of your diet,
Detailing on calories, fat, cholesterol, proteins and vitamins.

First, let’s start with egg calories.
Then sum of calories in an egg depends on the way you cook it.

Fried Egg, calories count: 92
The fried egg is very popular,
The only problem with it is the frying.
Oil is not so healthy and frying is usually the fattest type of cooking.
You may want to choose a different way to eat your eggs.

Scrambled Egg, calories count: 100
The scrambled egg is my favorite egg dish.
However, it’s also the fattest.
In contrast to the fried egg, calories are added due to the oil that is added to this kind of egg.
In the fried egg version you can get rid of a large percentage of the oil.

Hard-Boiled Egg, calories count: 76
The hardboiled egg is a great supplement of proteins to any meal.
You can add it to your salad,
Put it next to your meat or even eat it between meals.
I strongly suggest you have some hardboiled eggs ready in the fridge,
It’s much better than eating fatty snacks.

Poached Egg, calories count: 76
The poached (cooked in water without the shell) egg doesn’t really differ from the hard-boiled egg, calories wise.

No matter how you like eating your eggs,
The important thing is that you eat them and not other sorts of fatty foods.
Egg calories are not a burden on your meal plan.

Also, like any other food in our diet,
There are many nutritional concerns about the egg, Calories are not the only thing that matters!
The egg in general is a high protein food.
Egg protein is very valuable to building muscle and you should eat eggs after every muscle building workout.
They supply a good protein addition and the low egg calories that you “pay” for them is really worth it.
In addition eggs also supply the body with other nutrients.
Vitamin A, for example, is very effective in improving your vision and also helps with skin health.
Vitamin B7, also called Biotin, strengthens your hair and is a natural preventer of hair loss.
The only problem with eggs comes from high cholesterol.
For 100g of egg there are 424mg of cholesterol and 10g of fat (but only 27% of the fat is saturated).
There is an unconcluded discussion whether or not egg consumption can induce heart problems with people already prone to it.
If you do have high cholesterol then you should consider eating only the egg whites every other day instead of the whole egg. Only the egg yoke contains cholesterol.

The last use of the egg is as a substitute or even an addition to meals in your meal plan.
The bottom line is: you should include eggs in your diet.
Egg calories are low, proteins are high and vitamins and minerals are plenty.
Eat at least one egg (preferably boiled or poached) a day.
If you don’t have high cholesterol, you can eat afford two.
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David H. Mason

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Oh the wonderful snack, the little piece of heaven that we all crave so much.
The tiny yet oh-so-glorious minute of joy.
Yes, you and I both know it, snacks are a diet killer, no questions asked.
Snacks are like a bullet proof system to break your diet.
Let me tell you exactly why and how it happens…
First of all, the old calorie is a main attribute of the snack.
Snacks pack a huge amount of calories with the highest weight to calorie ratio.
This makes us eat a lot of it and still feel hungry.
Just think of how much you can eat to feel full. Now try to apply it to snacks.
You will realize that it is easy enough to eat a huge amount of calories - without even noticing.
Second, these calories are not only many but are also bad.
By bad I mean, light, cheap, simple calories, that do not supply the body with any valuable nutrients.
So it’s not only a lot of calories that you are eating but it’s the worst kind of calories!
The last thing about snacks is their high energy aspect.
When you eat a chocolate bar, you get a temporary energy boost,
This is due to a sudden rise in blood sugar which translates to energy.
These energy boosts are very dangerous because they it is easy to get addicted to them.
Before you know it you eat some candy whenever you’re a bit tired.
So whenever you eat a snack, the probability you’ll have another one soon goes up.
By now it must be pretty clear: you should avoid eating snacks at all costs.
The biggest problem with snacks is very simple: Availability.
When you open your kitchen cupboard and you see a candy bar looking back at you,
It is very hard not to smile back and have it.
What you should do is just eliminate those candy bars and snacks.
Obviously, you already know its bad for you and you will not damage you own diet consciously.
All you need to do is just remove the temptations so you won’t slip.
Of course it is not an easy thing to do,
This is why we have snack substitutes which can satisfy our cravings with a much lower “cost”.
One of these substitutes is fruits,
Fruits can provide the quick energy boost that chocolate provides because they are also sweet and sugary.
On the other hand fruits do supply additional nutrients to the body and have a contributing part in our metabolism process.
And of course fruits do not contain as many calories as candy.
If you are not a fruit person, you can find low fat energy bars and similar low fat snacks to satisfy your cravings without interrupting your weight loss efforts.
I hope you will take this information in consideration,
Good Luck,