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Mustard for Fat Loss?

Q:Mike, I know that cream sauces should be avoided if someone is trying to lose fat. What type of sauces would not be bad to include in your diet during a fat loss phase? For example, ketchup, honey mustard, etc…

Mike: Great Question. When people start dieting the always think this means their food has to taste bland and they start cutting out seasoning, condiments, etc. This is just crazy! Diet foods and flavor do not have to be exclusive of each other. I have recently written about a great low sugar ketchup option. Mustard is another condiment that you don’t need to cut out. Regular yellow mustard or spicy/deli-style mustards are both low calorie and can offer a great flavor boost. Honey mustard may be the exception as it will have a higher sugar content but if you are crazy about honey mustard then you should definately be able to fit it into your nutrition. A couple other condiments that you can use to boost your foods flavor without worrying about hindering your fat loss are: horseradish sauce, Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, and Thai Garlic-Chili sauce (hot stuff!).

The Key To Maximum Fat Loss

The key to maximum fat loss is often elusive to people because it really doesn’t have to do with the mechanics of nutrition or training. Finally, two weeks ago on the Biggest Loser TV show the nation was shown that key (although it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention). What am I talking about? Support.

Two weeks ago on the show the contestants were sent home for a week to visit family but they were being tested to see if they could lose weight when exposed to the environment that made them fat in the first place. In my opinion this was the best episode of the season because it showed what it really takes and how the contestants had changed.

The contestants that lost the most weight when they went home had the most support. One contestant’s (Dan) mother had a gym membership ready for him and a refrigerator full of fat burning foods. Needless to say Dan continued to lose weight when he was home. The two brother contestants (Mark and Jay) both lost significant weight while at home (Jay lost 16lbs!) – but they had wives that had committed themselves to losing weight while their husbands were away and thus had created an home environment that allowed Mark and Jay to eat right and exercise while away from “the ranch”.

The other contestants that didn’t do as well had friends who took them to their former favorite pastry shop where a pastry had been named after them while anther family spent a couple hours saying how proud they were of the contestant because of all the weight he had lost and then decided to take him to an all you can eat wing bar!

How is your life set up? Do you have the support you need? Is your environment arranged for fat loss success or failure? If you have been struggling with your fat loss and don’t know how to fix it – look at your environment, support, and make the necessary changes.

“No weight training for me, I’m just going to do cardio today!”

How many times have you heard something similar to that or said it yourself. I bet a lot. I hear it all of the time and have been guilty of telling people to just do cardio today instead of weights. Looking back and thinking about it, many of us have missed the boat with our “cardio day.”

Let’s break it down…honestly. Why do most people do “cardio” in the first place? To get in better condition for their daily lives? Maybe some, but most, I would venture to say do their cardio during the week to lose unwanted weight. Seriously, poll people you workout with and ask them why they would walk, jog, or do anything for more than 30 minutes at a time on a machine. Most will tell you that they are burning calories or fat…something like that. Some may be working on the fitness, trying to strengthen their heart or similar, but most are really trying to lose unwanted weight.

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Low Carb Diet Foods That You Should Be Eating

With the explosion in popularity of low carbohydrates diets, low carb diet foods have become very popular as well. This has brought some good and bad foods to the market. While I could go on and on about the bad ones (i.e. low carb chocolate), today I wanted to talk about two great “regular” foods that have gone low carb.

I’m talking about Heinz One Carb Ketchup and Hood Calorie Countdown milk (Chocolate is my favorite). First let’s look at One Carb. As innocent as ketchup looks it always contains a nice dose of added sugar – high fructose corn syrup in regular ketchup and usually cane sugar if you spring for the organic stuff. One Carb is different. Instead of the standard 5-8 grams of carbs per serving as the name states One Carb has just 1 gram of carbs. It is sweetened with splenda so you don’t feel like you are eating tomato paste but it isn’t overboard sweet. I recommend that even people that aren’t on a low carb diet check out One Carb ketchup as it is a great way to cut out unnecessary calories from sugar from an unlikely source.

 

Next up is Calorie Countdown Milk. When Hood first released this onto the market it was called “Carb Countdown.” Apparently branding this product as a low carb product wasn’t working for Hood as they switched the name. Fortunately they didn’t mess with the formula. Chocolate Carb…sorry CALORIE Countdown Milk has only 5 grams of carbs per 1 cup serving compared to 30 grams per serving as seen in some brands and 12 grams as found in regular milk. Not only did Hood remove the added sugar from choco-lating the milk (yes, I made that word up) they also removed some of the naturally occurring sugars in milk (lactose). This is good news not only for low carbers but people afflicted with lactose intolerance (myself included). This stuff is goooood. Now, Hood isn’t exactly giving this milk away as it is more in the price range of organic milk but even if your grocery budget doesn’t allow for a weekly half gallon of this chocolate food science masterpiece you’ll definitely want to treat yourself every so often to glass.

As Frank the Tank so delicately put it “When it hits your lips it’s just so good”. Seriously, you’ll feel like you’re cheating on your diet but you’re definitely not. Again as with One Carb Ketchup even if you aren’t a low carber this should make it into your nutritional rotation.

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