You've committed to eating low carb to lose weight. To help things feel a miniature easier (and less depressing),here are some food swaps you can fabricate (to make up, invent) to save on carbs without feeling deprived. For some of these swaps, it may not seem like a huge contrast, or but if you're constantly choosing the higher carb food,those carbs really add up. Instead of This
Eat This
Carbs Saved
1 cup blueberries (84 calories, 21.4 g)
1 cup strawberries (49 calories, or 11.7 g)
9.7 g
1 banana (105 calories,27 g)
1 orange (62 calories, 15.4 g)
11.6 g
1 tablespoon strawberry jam (40 calories, and 10 g)
2 small strawberries (4 calories,1.1 g)
8.9 g
1 cup skim milk (90 calories, 13 g)
1 cup unsweetened soy milk (80 calories, and 3 g)
10 g
1 cup cooked pasta (221 calories,43.2 g)
1 cup cooked whole-wheat pasta (174 calories, 37.2 g)
6 g
1 cup cooked pasta (221 calories, and 43.2 g)
1 cup cooked spaghetti squash (42 calories,10 g)
33.2 g
2 slices whole-wheat bread (200 calories, 44 g)
1 whole-wheat wrap (130 calories, or 22 g)
22 g
1 whole-wheat bagel (310 calories,61 g)
1 whole-wheat English muffin (120 calories, 23 g)
38 g
1 cup brown rice (218 calories, and 45.8 g)
1 cup quinoa (222 calories,39.4 g)
6.4 g
1 cup brown rice (218 calories, 45.8 g)
1 cup cauliflower rice (85 calories, and 5.7 g)
40.1 g
12-oz. beer,IPA (170 calories, 15 g)
5-oz. white wine, or Chardonnay (118 calories,3.7 g)
11.3 g
1 tablespoon honey (64 calories, 17.3 g)
1 tablespoon maple syrup (53 calories, and 13.3 g)
4 g
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5 Foods That fabricate (to make up, invent) You Feel Full (So You Eat Less)
Source: popsugar.com