ermintrude said:Like the others said, you're NOT eating "a bigger plate of food". Without the superfree you would fill your plate up 100% with free food and syns which is much hiugher in calories than superfree food.
When you fill your plate 1/3 full with superfree food (which is relatively negligible calories) there is only space for 66% of it to be full of free food and syns.
So by filling your plate up with superfree you are automatically reducing the portion size of higher-calorie food you eat such as meat, potatoes etc.
Its not a case of eating "more" its about eating *the right kind* of food - reducing the amount of higher-calorie stuff you eat - by filling the plate up with low-calorie stuff so there is just less space to fit high-calorie stuff in. You eat the *same volume* of food (a plateful) but *what* you eat has far less calories in it than it would if you didn't pad it out with superfree (veg etc)
here's a really rough example
250g carrots = 100 calories
250g beef = 300 calories
250g pasta = 450 calories
So if you ate a plate full (750g) of just beef & pasta it would around 1200 calories. If you filled it 1/3 full of carrots it would only be about 850 calories. Thats about 350 calories saved - not that much but if you do it at *every* meal, *every* day it saves a HUGE amount of calories over the week. Simples
i do love a calculation and stats! cant you tell i work in accounts. haha! x
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tara40 said:Can I just ask you experts. By eating the superfree foods do they speed up your metabolism in any way. As I find that if for example I eat a big bowl of pre SW bolognaise I feel like a slug after, but if I have a big bowl of SW bolognaise I feel light on my feet, if that makes sense.
Can I just ask you experts. By eating the superfree foods do they speed up your metabolism in any way. As I find that if for example I eat a big bowl of pre SW bolognaise I feel like a slug after, but if I have a big bowl of SW bolognaise I feel light on my feet, if that makes sense.
ermintrude said:Yeah kind of. Carbohydrates come in different kinds - simple & complex. Simple carbohydrates are basically sugars and your body doesn't have to break them down, it can absorb them immediately. So after eating them you immediately have a 'high blood sugar' - but as they are absorbed so quickly your blood sugar then falls again very quickly, so you feel tired and sluggish with 'no energy'.
Complex carbohydrates on the other hand take time to break down and absorb - so there isn't that initial hit of energy absorbed and nor is there the sudden drop where you feel tired and sluggish as your soon as your blood sugars fall again. Instead blood sugars slowly rise and then slowly fall again as they are slowly broken down - so you dont get either a sudden alertness (like you would eating chocolate or something) but you dont get the sudden drop again either.
The other thing is that the body has to use energy up in this breaking down process - it is hard work to break things down - so simple carbohydrates (sugars) require minimal energy to break down whereas complex carbohydrates (fibrous, superfree stuff) require a lot more - you have to USE energy to CREATE energy from the food you break down. Some foods like celery have so little content in them that it costs more energy to break them down than the energy you get out of them - this is the 'negative calories' idea. This is less to do with the sluggishness thing though, just shows why you should be eating superfree.
Hope that helps
Ermintrude, you are like the fount of all slimming world wisdom . I live it. Makes stuff so much clearer than in the book