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 qualities marketed.

The most consumed pasta is the dry one, while the fresh one barely reaches 1/4 of the national production; there industrial dry pasta MUST contain ONLY durum wheat semolina or semolina, otherwise, the food falls within special pastes. The latter represent an independent category and arise from the additional use of other ingredients such as: eggs (for egg pasta), squid ink, spinach, all kinds of stuffing, etc.
Among the special pastas we also recognize some dietary foods such as: gluten-free pasta, pasta for diabetics and wholemeal pasta.

Does pasta make you lose weight or gain weight?

Pasta is not a food that correctly approaches the lifestyle of the "sedentary man; this" affirmation, although suffered, is the result of a much more reasoned and profound consideration than the banal and trendy dietary concepts of the latest generation. Let me be clear, what I am going to describe concerns ONLY and exclusively the subjects who, for one reason or another, carry out inexpensive work activities and do not practice sports, therefore they have a sedentary lifestyle; the same concept cannot be superimposed for people who play sports and / or carry out particularly strenuous work activities (alas, increasingly rare) and who can therefore afford to consume pasta with greater freedom.

When does pasta make you fat?

Pasta is a highly energetic food rich in carbohydrates; consider that, in an MEDIUM diet, a portion of pasta (80g) with a tablespoon of oil (10g) and a little cheese (10g) it brings about 415kcal, or up to 20-25% of the total requirement. Furthermore, these weights refer to DESIRABLE and BALANCED portions, much more modest than those normally consumed. Ultimately, with a high calorie intake and a medium-high glycemic index (GI), pasta is not a simple food to manage in the context of a weight loss diet.
However, it should be remembered 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 he 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 sedentary people, we cite some indications for the consumption of pasta in order to allow all healthy subjects (non-diabetic) to also include it in a low-calorie slimming diet:

1. Eat pasta no more than 3 times a week
2. NEVER exceed 60-70g of pasta per serving
3. Consume pasta ONLY once a day and NEVER at DINNER
4. Always combine pasta with a sauce as low as possible in fat and as rich as possible in SOLUBLE dietary fiber (remembering that ALSO vegetables contain calories)
5. Prefer dietetic type pasta, therefore wholemeal or better PASTA FOR DIABETICS (low-calorie, rich in fiber and with a low glycemic index)
6. Prefer pasta shapes with a lower glycemic index
7. Eat pasta especially on days of greatest physical movement
8. Eat the pasta AFTER the side dish
9. In the most extreme cases, avoid consuming bread and potatoes with pasta REGARDLESS OF THE TOTAL ENERGY SUPPLY.

By following the aforementioned indications, not only sedentary subjects can consume pasta without fear of gaining weight, but those who are overweight (with some additional nutritional calculations) can include it in the low-calorie slimming diet without nullifying its overall therapeutic efficacy.