Lose weight with pasta

Generality

Pasta is a typical Italian product; it is a food whose production is strictly regulated and differentiated for the various commercialized qualities.

The most consumed pasta is the dry one, while the fresh one barely reaches 1/4 of the national production; industrial dry pasta MUST contain ONLY durum wheat or semolina, otherwise the food is included in special pasta. The latter represent an independent category and arise from the additional use of other ingredients such as: eggs (for egg pasta), cuttlefish ink, spinach, farce of any kind etc.

Among the special pasta we also recognize some diet foods such as: gluten-free pasta, diabetic pasta and whole-wheat pasta.

Does pasta make you lose weight or get fat?

Pasta is not a food that approaches correctly the lifestyle of the sedentary man; this affirmation, although painful, is the fruit of a far more reasoned and profound consideration than the banal and fashionable dietary concepts of last generation. Let me be clear, what I will describe concerns ONLY and exclusively those subjects who, for one reason or another, perform inexpensive work activities and do not practice sports, therefore they have a sedentary lifestyle; the same concept is not superimposable for people who do sports and / or perform particularly strenuous work activities (alas, more and more rare) and that can therefore be allowed to consume pasta with greater freedom.

When does pasta make you fat?

Pasta is a highly energetic food rich in carbohydrates; consider that, in a MEDIUM diet, a portion of pasta (80g) with a tablespoon of oil (10g) and a bit of cheese (10g) brings about 415kcal, or up to 20-25% of the total requirement. Furthermore, these weights refer to DESABLE and BALANCED portions, much more modest than those normally consumed. Ultimately, with a high caloric intake and a medium-high glycemic index (GI), pasta is not a simple food to manage in the context of a slimming diet.

It is however worth mentioning that, as usual, it is the dose that makes the poison! This means that even a sedentary person can consume a portion of pasta without gaining weight, as long as it respects the real energy needs of his body.

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How is it possible to lose weight by eating pasta?

Continuing to examine the diet of the sedentary, we cite some indications for the consumption of pasta in order to allow all healthy (non-diabetic) subjects to insert it ALSO in a low-calorie diet:

1. Eat pasta at most 3 times a week
2. NEVER exceed 60-70g of pasta per serving
3. Consume pasta ONLY once a day and NEVER a DINNER
4. Always associate pasta with a possible poorer fat dressing and as rich as possible in SOLUBLE dietary fiber (remembering that vegetables also contain calories)
5. Prefer dietetic type pasta, therefore integral or better PASTA PER DIABETICI (low calorie, rich in fiber and with low glycemic index)
6. Prefer the lower glycemic index pasta shapes
7. Eat pasta especially on the days of greatest physical movement
8. Eat the pasta AFTER the side dish
9. In the most extreme cases, avoid eating bread and potatoes with pasta TO FOLLOW THE OVERALL ENERGY SUPPORT.

Following the aforementioned indications, not only the sedentary subjects can consume pasta without the fear of gaining weight, but overweight ones (with some extra nutritional calculations) can insert it into the low-calorie diet without losing their overall therapeutic efficacy.