Indian food is different
_Prabh_Sandhu
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exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
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The only "eating right" we need be concerned with when losing weight is "eating less"
"right" is subjective and open to opinion/debate.
"less" is objective, quantifiable, and measurable.0 -
sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
I'm not Indian, but I absolutely love Indian food. You just reminded me that I have not had any in a long time.0 -
Huh?0
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We are talking about food from India..0
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sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
I'm not Indian, but I absolutely love Indian food. You just reminded me that I have not had any in a long time.
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SergeantSausage wrote: »The only "eating right" we need be concerned with when losing weight is "eating less"
"right" is subjective and open to opinion/debate.
"less" is objective, quantifiable, and measurable.
Less is also debatable, it depends upon your lifestyle hence the term right..0 -
Indian food...Yummm I got to have this on a treat day, but I would imagine I would have to work out extra. It's loaded with yummy calories. I can smell the spices now!0
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Indian food is easy to adapt to lower calorie and no different from any other cuisine
It's habit and tastes ...try to remove ghee and creams, reduce portion sizes of rice ...go for plain boiled rice rather than pilau or fried...take more veg curries, avoiding heavy sauces ...they can be cooked without oils and heavy creams (coconut milk and low cal yogurt), dhosas and chaphatis aren't awful in moderation...eat bhajis and samosas and other fried foods with care ...tikka spices on chicken breast, dhals can be adapted etc
You have a wonderful range of spices to work with you just need to adapt ...your issue is Indian hospitality and the strength of Indian chefs
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sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
1. Develop long-term pneumonia during wedding season
2. Tie pillow around waist under clothing in presence of aunties to disguise ongoing weight loss attempt
3. Skip the naan, or make it your entire meal
4. Cook with a tandoor or tandoori-style dishes
5. If evening plans include dinner at my mother-in-law's, morning plans include running a marathon.
In other words--in my experience, the heaviness and quantity of Indian food is cultural as much as nutritional.0 -
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cheshirecatastrophe wrote: »sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
1. Develop long-term pneumonia during wedding season
2. Tie pillow around waist under clothing in presence of aunties to disguise ongoing weight loss attempt
3. Skip the naan, or make it your entire meal
4. Cook with a tandoor or tandoori-style dishes
5. If evening plans include dinner at my mother-in-law's, morning plans include running a marathon.
In other words--in my experience, the heaviness and quantity of Indian food is cultural as much as nutritional.
:laugh:
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We eat a lot of Indian food, all of it homemade and healthy. Some good recipes include mung bean dahl from www.thehealthychef.com and no-butter butter chicken recipe from bal arneson of the food network.
We don't normally have naan or roti - these can really pack on the calories. I usually make a large side of veggies, and no one misses it.
I also don't eat the desserts ever. I never really liked them, even with my sweet tooth. Plus, they are crazy high in calories.
When eating at parties, all I want is warm fluffy naan and butter chicken. So - that's all I have. I skip appetizers and dessert and other sides, and just have water so that my dinner doesn't go too over on calories.
Good luck!
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Mmmm indian food. I'm planning on making butter, uh, beef tonight. Minus the butter... will be using coconut oil instead, I think. And minus the naan. And the rice. I loooooove Indian food, but paleo for now.0
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I eat a lot of Indian food as my husband is Indian. Honestly, all I do is eat smaller portions. I eat the same foods but keep under my calorie goal. It's no different than eating Italian or British foods. And I do eat rice and naan and everything - I just work it in.0
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Good idea..We eat a lot of Indian food, all of it homemade and healthy. Some good recipes include mung bean dahl from www.thehealthychef.com and no-butter butter chicken recipe from bal arneson of the food network.
We don't normally have naan or roti - these can really pack on the calories. I usually make a large side of veggies, and no one misses it.
I also don't eat the desserts ever. I never really liked them, even with my sweet tooth. Plus, they are crazy high in calories.
When eating at parties, all I want is warm fluffy naan and butter chicken. So - that's all I have. I skip appetizers and dessert and other sides, and just have water so that my dinner doesn't go too over on calories.
Good luck!
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »cheshirecatastrophe wrote: »sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
1. Develop long-term pneumonia during wedding season
2. Tie pillow around waist under clothing in presence of aunties to disguise ongoing weight loss attempt
3. Skip the naan, or make it your entire meal
4. Cook with a tandoor or tandoori-style dishes
5. If evening plans include dinner at my mother-in-law's, morning plans include running a marathon.
In other words--in my experience, the heaviness and quantity of Indian food is cultural as much as nutritional.
:laugh:
Tandoori chicken is one of my favorite high-protein lower-calorie Indian dishes. There are also many lower-calorie dal recipes out there.0 -
https://www.youtube.com/user/RajshriFood/videos
This is my favorite channel. They do a mix of Indian and Western recipes. I've bookmarked quite a few that I want to try out! They also did a video on homemade garam masala.0 -
If you watch the salt and added fats(oils..ghee). It's actually pretty healthy....... Make your own chappathi using higher fiber flours... Skip on Naan and sweets.0
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Damnit now I want Indian food!
The place near me makes a mean tandoori salmon, and their Dal Makhani (insert Homer Simpson drool here) OMB it's ALL ghee and I don't care!0 -
sandhu_3007 wrote: »exchanging notes with East Indians about eating right to reduce weight and getting better fitness...
Indian food can be very delicious and full of good lean proteins and vegetables and wonderful spices. I love it personally. Unfortunately, there's nothing inherently healthier or less healthy about the food itself, and I've had several Indian friends who got obese eating traditional diets, mostly because they were eating big portions and worked in an office so they got little exercise.
Like a lot of traditional cultural cuisines, the recipes were created to make the most of scarce ingredients for people who worked physically much harder than we do today. In the end, it's not the type of food that gets you to lose weight, it's how much of it you eat compared to how much you exert.0
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