We have already talked in this article about alternatives to pasta, not only with shirataki, for those who want to lose weight by choosing low-calorie products. In this article we will instead look at 10 carbohydrate substitutes for weight loss, managing to cut calories and at the same time make a healthier diet.

Duty premise on carbohydrate substitutes (which you can skip by going directly to the list).

• Carbohydrates by themselves do not make you fat.

• Eating too much or eating in a disorderly way increases the risk of losing weight.

  There is nothing wrong with gaining weight if it doesn’t put our health at risk. We must not all have the same weight or all the same size. The important thing is not to get hurt either by overeating at the table or by eating too little.

• On Dcomedieta carbohydrates are not demonized, like any other food.

  With a view to a varied and balanced diet, we can afford any food if we know how to moderate ourselves.

• So why write an article on carbohydrate substitutes?

  Because maybe we would like to eat more vegetables, reduce flour-based products, vary with unusual and low-calorie alternatives, or simply stay on a diet and would like to make it less monotonous. This point in particular is fundamental for me.

• Staying on a diet must not be synonymous with a mortifying cuisine, nor with dishes that are always the same.

  Many people lose their imagination in the kitchen if the ingredients do not include oil, butter, cream, pasta, biscuits, cold cuts and puff pastry.
  The result is that when they are on a diet they only eat chicken breast and salad.
  Yet you can make a cheesecake without a biscuit base, a cake without butter or oil and even a lasagna without egg noodles or a pizza without flour.
  In short, far from demonizing the ingredients I mentioned above, knowing how to vary with less caloric alternatives does not mean giving up those foods. In short, we try not to make a bundle of all the grass.

• Trying lighter products doesn’t mean saying goodbye to more caloric ones!

• Same thing when you tell me: ah, but this is not the Mediterranean diet !!!

But perhaps the Mediterranean diet is not even snacks for breakfast, have you ever thought about it? And the best Mediterranean diet in the world is not the Italian one for scientists, or rather, it no longer is. The gold standard is the Cretan one. In short, the times of Ancel Keys have passed.

The scientist himself, putative father of the Mediterranean diet, in recent years complained that in Italy things had changed a lot since he had lived in Cilento. Keys was not in favor of fat, he was not in favor of pizza, he would have turned up his nose in front of a parmigiana with fried eggplant and a tiramisu. He was not in favor of many things that are part of our country’s tradition for us.
This does not mean that traditional dishes are not healthy or should be excluded, if you eat a cannoli nothing happens to you, nor are you necessarily betraying the Mediterranean diet. But being a “purist” of the Mediterranean diet and eating Italian are things that don’t always go hand in hand.

Now that I’ve clarified all of these things, based on your objections to articles similar to this one, let’s finally see 10 carbohydrate substitutes for weight loss. Some of these contain carbohydrates, but to a much lesser extent.

10 CARBOHYDRATE SUBSTITUTES FOR SLIMMING

• • Low calorie tortillas and wraps

    The wraps with their oil and flour content are generally more caloric than bread. They are very popular, because they allow quick lunches and dinners, but often a portion exceeds 300 calories. Those of Natoo instead have a thin sheet and fewer carbohydrates, in a pack there are 24 and each piadina has less than 150 calories. The coconut wraps, on the other hand, are tortillas made with coconut flour and pulp, with negligible calories. You can buy them on the Body & Fit website or on the Biovea website. We can also save money by making them at home and using this recipe. Even fewer calories and more savings?