How to eat mooncakes without gaining weight How to eat mooncakes without consuming too many calories

As we all know, mooncakes are a common traditional food and a popular food around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. Many people like to eat mooncakes, especially the elderly and children. Mooncakes are high in calories and eating too much will easily make you gain weight. So how can you eat mooncakes without gaining weight? Let's take a closer look!

How to Eat Mooncakes Without Gaining Weight

1. Eat a small amount each time and share with everyone

If you want to eat mooncakes without gaining fat, you need to have a smaller impact on blood sugar fluctuations. After calculation (the calculation process is at the end, if you are interested, you can refer to it), for normal people, eating 50g of mooncakes each time will not have a big impact on blood sugar fluctuations and can prevent fat accumulation. Then 50g of mooncakes is roughly equivalent to 1/4 of a large mooncake and 1/2 of a small mooncake, so it is recommended to cut mooncakes into small pieces and share them with everyone.

2. Cleverly pair with meals

Some families often eat mooncakes as part of their main meals, especially in the morning. Many people often eat a mooncake as breakfast, but they don’t know that they will take in too many calories and feel less full, and they will often feel hungry before noon. So if you eat mooncakes for breakfast, just eat 50g of them first, and then pair them with a cup of sugar-free and protein-rich milk or soy milk, an egg, some vegetables (cucumber, cherry tomato or a small cold dish), and a few nuts for a nutritious breakfast. If you eat them for lunch and dinner, it is recommended to reduce the staple food of refined rice and flour by 1 liang accordingly. It would be even more perfect if you can add some coarse grains.

3. Take a walk after eating

Many people like to sit or lie down after eating and stay there without moving. In fact, because there is a peak in blood sugar after a meal, fat is most likely to accumulate at this time. Therefore, you must seize the opportunity and start exercising properly for half an hour to an hour half an hour after a meal, such as going out for a walk, or doing housework at home. In short, don't let yourself stay still in one place.

4. Mooncakes instead of snacks

When you feel hungry between meals, don't choose snacks such as cakes and potato chips. It is also a good choice to use a small piece of mooncake instead. Because mooncakes are high in sugar, they can quickly replenish energy and relieve hunger after eating. It should be noted that you should not eat other snacks after eating mooncakes, and you should not use mooncakes as snacks for a long time.

5. There are some things to pay attention to when choosing mooncakes

Although mooncakes are generally high in oil and sugar, I would recommend the five-nut mooncakes, which are frequently complained about by netizens, as the first choice. This is because the filling of the five-nut mooncakes is nuts, and the fat in them is natural unsaturated fat. Compared with mooncakes with other fruit fillings, date paste fillings, etc., the sugar content is relatively lower, and it does not have as much cholesterol and salt as egg yolk fillings. Just don't eat a lot of nuts after eating mooncakes with five-nut fillings.

6. Don’t listen to the hype about “sugar-free”, “healthy”, “low-calorie” and other concepts

"Sugar-free" mooncakes do not contain sucrose, but can be replaced by other sugar substitutes (such as xylitol and sucralose). However, because the flour in "sugar-free" mooncakes cannot be replaced by other materials, mooncakes made of flour will still increase blood sugar after eating. Therefore, it is a legend that diabetics can eat "sugar-free" mooncakes at will.

To say that "sugar-free" mooncakes can be made is pure nonsense, but "low-calorie" mooncakes are pure nonsense. All mooncakes are made of flour and oil. A medium-sized mooncake of 120g has a calorie content of about 500kcal, which is equivalent to the calorie content of a meal.

Finally, let's talk about health mooncakes. Mooncakes that claim to contain American ginseng, abalone, shark fin, and bird's nest actually contain no more than 10% of real ingredients, and the rest are refined flour, refined sugar, and oil. This can be seen directly from the ingredient list, because the ingredient list is arranged according to the amount of these ingredients. If you look closely, you can see that these precious ingredients are often arranged at the end.

How to eat mooncakes without gaining weight during weight loss

The first trick is to choose mooncakes. When buying mooncakes, you must read the ingredient list and nutritional composition table of the mooncakes, and choose mooncakes with fewer food additives, relatively less sugar (carbohydrates) and lower calories.

The second tip is to choose a reasonable time to eat mooncakes. It is better to eat mooncakes for breakfast or as a snack, and try to avoid eating mooncakes for dinner or before going to bed.

The third trick is to just taste a little and don’t eat the whole mooncake. One mooncake should be shared by the whole family.

The fourth tip is to reduce the intake of other staple foods while eating mooncakes to ensure that daily energy intake does not exceed the limit.

The fifth tip is to eat more vegetables while eating mooncakes.

The sixth tip is, if you really can’t control your food intake, you have to rely on exercise to consume the excess energy.

What kind of mooncake is better for losing weight?

1. Choose mooncakes with lower calories. Mooncakes with red bean paste and fruit fillings have lower calories, while those with egg yolk and five-nut fillings have higher calories.

Double yolk lotus seed paste mooncake 426 calories (kcal/100g)

Teochew Crispy Mooncake 460

Five-nut mooncake 416

Red Bean Paste Mooncake 405

Snow Skin Mooncake 358

Low sugar mooncake 398

2. Eat only a quarter of a traditional mooncake a day, and only one piece of mini mooncake. Don't eat more than that.

3. Drink Pu'er tea, which can effectively separate the oil and reduce the body's absorption