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Have you ever wondered how on earth the Chinese can stay slim after eating Chinese food all day? I worked in Shanghai for 4 years. During those days, I observed the locals' great passion towards food. If you look at their day to day life, it all revolves around food. Their common greeting to friends is "Have you eaten?" (Ni Chi La Ma?) -It doesn't mean that they want to invite you to dinner though. It's just like people here saying "Miserable day isn't it?"
Well the truth behind their fat burning diet and life style is:
1. They eat a lot of vegetables every day. It is such a blessing that in China, the fresh vegetables are available all year round. Go to the local market, you could find vegetables you have never seen in your life, picked from the fields on the same day on display. They are so fresh no matter how you cook them, they are just unbelievably tasty. Ordinary Chinese families cook differently from the Chinese takeaways and TV chefs here. They don't use those fancy cooking sauces for vegetable dishes. All those cooking sauces are developed just for the west. I may have to go into more detail about Chinese vegetable dishes on another paper.
2. They like to slice meat up into small bite sizes and fry with vegetables. In older days, it might be practical reason due to the fact that, meats were 3 times more expensive than vegetables. Nowadays people just genuinely believe mix vegetables and meat will taste better and look nicer.
3. They always have soup with their main meal. Though they never add milk or cream into soups. Their soups are light, liquid based normally adding ginger, goji berries or dates to bring more flavour out. Drinking soup does tend to fill you up while not adding too many calories. So soups will defiantly help you control your appetite. There must be some natural fat burning theory behind this.
4. And there's their old saying about their three meals a day-"Eat good in the morning, eat till full at lunch, eat little at night". This should be another important role in the Chinese fat burning diet.
5. Chinese walk a lot. They walk everywhere, even nowadays they have cars. For them 20 minutes walk in Shanghai is not too far at all, not even worth taking a bus or catching a taxi. The majority of them still like to follow the old saying: "Walk 100 step after dinner every day, have a long life of 100 years". If you have a chance to visit any cities in China, after the supper, you can see all green fields or park lands are packed with people having their "after-meal-walk", or "after-meal group-dancing" session. They are naturally a much more active bunch of people.
6. They drink tea or boiled water. Chinese green or red teas are more popular among the mature generation. Traditionally, when the Chinese want another cup of tea, they'll keep the same leaves and add water to the pot. Young girls are keen on girly flower teas, like rose tea and chrysanthemum tea. They put REAL dry follows into the cup. After the boiled water is added, you can smell them from 5 desks away. They do drink coffee in the office before they prepare for working long into the night. Or at the weekend young sweet hearts would like to meet up at Starbucks. Just to make they look trendy. And ordinary families drink boiled water. Why boiled water? Because you can't drink straight from the tap in China. Even now families have mineral water machines, they still prefer heat up the water before drinking. Apparently they believe drinking too much cold drink is not very nice for your stomach.
Well, in short, if you want to copy their fat burning diet, you should cut on down ready-made meals and milky drinks; eat more vegetables and fruits, drink a lot of plain tea /water, and then walk at least 30 minutes a day, cook your own food and eat your main meal at lunch.
Actually, there are quite a few popular and well designed dieting programmes on the market are applying the above principles. Trying to lose weight on your own can be tough. Using a complete fat burning diet program combine with the real Chinese cooking, will help you improve nutrition, change your eating habits, bring up some fun onto your fat loss plan.
Act now, summer is around the corner!
Maggie Y. Charters, lived in Shanghai from 2003-2007, enjoys Chinese cooking. She believes in changing one's lifestyle to improve nutrition combined with a workout to daily activities is the healthy and natural way to lost weight. For more information on fat burning diets and cooking tips, visit: [http://www.fatburning-diet.com]
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