Hi and welcome back!
Remember your body needs fueling before and after your workouts and your starchy carbohydrates are a perfect fuel for providing energy to your muscles and helping them refuel and recover. Protein helps protect the muscles, especially if you are trying to lose weight, helps keep the muscles strong and helps you feel fuller for longer. Healthy fat helps the body absorb vitamins, can help with endurance workouts and helps protect against some diseases. So, make sure you are not exercising on empty, not starving yourself after exercise and not treating food as the enemy! Food provides the fuel we need so when you are making your choices try asking yourself "Does my body need this fuel and is the best fuel for my body?"
Sue x
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Mara has just asked me about houmous and its fat content and whether this makes it a good, healthy choice.
Here is a list on ingredients of Tesco's Morrocan Houmous and nutritional values:
Cooked Chick Peas (38%),Vegetable Oil ,Water , Sesame Seed Paste (12%) ,Onion ,Concentrated Lemon Juice , Red Chilli Purée (0.9%) ,Salt , Coriander (0.7%) ,Garlic Purée ,Tomato Purée ,Sugar ,Coriander Powder ,Cumin Powder ,Paprika ,Mint ,Cooked Chick Peas contains ,Water ,Chickpeas
Typical Values 100g contain (recommeded serving size is 50g)
Energy 1196kJ (289kcal)
Protein 6.8g
Carbohydrate 8.1g
Sugars 1.0g
Fat 25.5g
Saturates 2.6g
Mono Unsaturates 13.3g
Polyunsaturates 8.4g
Fibre 7.3g
Sodium* 0.4g
*Salt Equivalent 0.9g
Moisture 50.7g
As you will see, all real ingredients here so got to be good. Yes, it does contain fat, but mainly polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats which are thought to be beneficial to the body. It's the saturated fats and trans fats that you need to be careful with.
If you think about it, when you are choosing no sugar, no wheat and low dairy products, you are automatically reducing your levels of saturated fat, as these are the foods that usually contain higher levels of saturated fat. So the little bit you are eating now in your houmous or yoghurt will be a lot lower than what you were eating before in you cakes, biscuits or ready meals!
Another thought to choosing foods with fat in them is that fat does make food taste nice and keeps you feeling fuller for longer, so I believe that with something like yoghurt or houmous it can be better to eat the normal version than the low fat version as in the end it can be more satisfying and you are more likely to eat less.
Hope this helps! x
Hi there. I had a great workout with Sue tonight. It was very indulgent working on a one to one basis with her. Learnt a but more about what exercises my body needs to improve some flexibility. Also how being asked to hang from a door challenged me in a scary way! More work needed to build me and my strength up to do it.
After my exercise I had a wonderful reflexology session, oh it was bliss!!
So now in bed really chilled.
Food choices
porridge yog apple seeds
apple and cheese
chix and avocado on rocket toms and cue
rice pud half banana
small bowl muesli with half banana yog
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