How to Balance Carbs on the Body for Life Diet
The Body for Life Diet combines diet and exercise in an intense duo to deliver fast results including weight loss, fitness and health. Dieters balance carbs on the Body for Life Diet by decreasing the overall quantity of carbs and improving the quality of carbs eaten. It's not a carb-free diet, but it is high in protein and bad carbs are knocked off the menu. Here's how to balance carbs on the Body for Life Diet and get the most out of this fitness plan.
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Instructions
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Plan your menu, which should include six small meals per day, according to diet recommendations. The Body for Life Diet discourages large, carbohydrate-rich meals because of the bad effect these have on blood sugar. Each meal should include protein and complex carbohydrates, but no simple carbs such as those in white bread, sugary foods and white rice.
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Eat complex carbs for your breakfast. The first meal of the day should include whole raw fruits and whole grains. Soaked Irish oats with cream and berries makes a great start to a healthy day. Your first snack could be an apple with mixed nuts or carrot sticks and a whole wheat bagel.
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Balance carbs with protein-rich foods, such as a turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread, for lunch. Include a glass of milk with your sandwich and you're still doing well. Just skip the soda--that has way too many bad carbs to qualify on the Body for Life Diet.
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Include protein and good carbs in your afternoon snack while getting fit and losing weight with the Body for Life Diet. Dill pickles, fresh tomatoes with olive oil and vinegar and pears are all great options. Don't forget to include the protein, such as a piece of cheese, a hard boiled egg or a handful of mixed nuts.
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Eat a healthy dinner and balance your carbs by including protein with your meal. Main dishes such as sirloin steak, chicken breast and salmon filet are all allowed.
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Don't forget about dessert. Just because you're on a diet, doesn't mean you can't indulge your sweet tooth a little. Just stay away from sugary foods and try fruit instead. Fresh berries in yogurt or a serving of applesauce are great options.
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Tips & Warnings
Diet for six days and take the seventh off while you're on the Body for Life Diet. On your free day, you don't have to exercise and you can eat what you like. The day off will help you stick to your diet the rest of the time.
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