Low Carb Dessert
low carb dessert that help you to lose weight while enjoying you fovorite dessert.
Low Carb Dessert - If you have recently adopted low carb diet, you may be feeling slightly upset especially when friends are feasting on sugar laden, after-meal treats like cakes, cookies and pies, chocolate and etc. It does not have to be that way. You have a lot more low carb dessert options than you might think. You can enjoy sugar-free fruit-flavored gelatin with a dollop of whipped cream. Or make pudding with vegetable gums instead of cornstarch. Experiment with meringues of different flavors or different fillings (and use up all the egg whites you'll have left from making all that mayonnaise and hollandaise sauce). There are a number of wonderful sugar-free low carb dessert ice creams on the market now. Top the low carb ice cream with sugar-free chocolate sauce and whipped cream, or with fresh blueberries, or with a blueberry sauce you make yourself by cooking down a package of frozen blueberries.
With a little bit of creativity there are also a wide variety of low carb dessert that you can prepared it yourself and fit perfectly on your meal plan.
First rule of preparing low carb dessert is obviously to eliminate sugar as much as possible. With all the artificial sweeteners on the market now this shouldn't be a big problem. Some individuals do react to the chemicals in these sweeteners but for most it isn't an issue. For those of you who are concerned over the health risks of such ingredients, while there have been few studies to have shown negative effects, most of these are only seen when you are taking in extreme portion sizes, which so long as you are careful won't be an issue at all.
Other ingredient that is much needed in low car dessert is fat. On the majority of lower carbohydrate diets do allow for some fat, this in itself will also give you a lot more options for what you will make. For a healthy low carb dessert use fats from plant sources (such as olives, olive oil, canola oil, peanuts, peanut oil, soy or soy oil) rather than from animal sources (butter or meat fat).
The one thing you will of course have to watch out for is fruit desserts, as since fruit is a simple sugar it should not be taken in. That means finding alternatives to garnish your various low carb dessert, such as a few low-sugar chocolate shavings perhaps.
A final precaution to keep in mind in preparing low carb dessert, if you are actively trying to lose weight on your low carb diet and are not just using this way of eating as a lifestyle, you will need to watch portion sizes. Just because the carbs are cut out does not mean you will not gain weight if you eat too much of it. Remember that there are 9 calories per gram of fat whereas there are only 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate. This means that given equal volumes of food, one consisting of mostly carbohydrates and one consisting of mostly fat, the one with fat is going to be much more calorie dense. This will translate to more weight gain if you eat the same amount of it.
Here are some great low carb dessert recipes for you to try. They are also low calorie as well, making them really the perfect choice for any low carb dieter
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Protein Wrap
Low Carb Cheesecake Cup
Low Carb Pudding
Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies
So next time you are craving something sweet, rather than turning to the local bakery whip something up yourself that stays within the guidelines of your diet
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