Nowadays, many people choose to control their weight by improving their diet and choose to eat salad, but the effect is not as perfect as everyone expected. Why is this? The purpose of weight loss control diet is to control calorie intake, and the basic purpose of eating salad is to reduce calorie intake. However, if you do not pay attention to these two points, eating salad will not only fail to lose weight, but may also lead to obesity.

1. Selection of salad ingredients

The combination of salad ingredients is nothing more than vegetables, fruits, hard-boiled eggs, chicken breasts, quinoa, etc. Hard-boiled eggs, chicken breasts, quinoa, etc. are all important to control in quantity, but the same cannot be said for vegetables and fruits. Some fruits and vegetables are not as low in calories as you might think. Take avocados for example. Although avocados contain monounsaturated fatty acids, they are still relatively high in calories, so you should eat them less. Lotus root, sweet potato, potato, corn, pumpkin, etc. are similar starch-rich rice. If you eat too much, the calories will become high, so be careful! Fruits and vegetables such as cucumbers, lettuce, apples, tomatoes, and grapefruit have relatively low calories and are very suitable for weight loss salads. In addition, some people also like to add nuts, which is also a point that needs attention. We are also required to eat less nuts during weight loss, no more than 20 grams per day, so this may cause you invisible obesity, so you need to pay extra attention to it. .

2. Sauce selection

In addition to the ingredients, salads also need to pay attention to the selection of sauces. What your sauce is is the most important factor in determining whether your salad is safe. Vegetable salads, which are originally low-fat and low-calorie, often gain weight instead of losing weight because of inappropriate salad dressings. The salad dressings sold on the market mainly include mayonnaise, Thousand Island dressing, etc. The main raw materials are egg yolk and salad oil, plus a little sugar, salt and vinegar, which are extremely high in calories. One spoonful of salad dressing is about 20 grams, and its calories are basically equivalent to a cone or a bowl of rice. So if we want to lose weight, we should not add these sauces to our salads.