Top 3 Healthy Food Replacement Options During Delray Beach Weight Loss

Saying farewell to some of your favorite foods can be tough, but it's necessary when you consider making changes toward a healthier lifestyle – specifically losing weight.

Though complete elimination of these unhealthy foods isn't always necessary or encouraged by Delray Beach Weight Loss, finding replacements to eat on a regular basis in place of some of the unhealthier foods you'd eat on a regular basis is a great way to keep up the good work.

Delray Beach weight loss program seeks to empower clients to make healthy decisions for themselves. The program is doctor supervised, so everyone who participates is in great hands, making healthy, safe decisions unique to their situation. The program is not a one size fits all endeavor. Rather, each person works specifically with a doctor to create a diet and exercise program that will meet their needs, and add any supplements that will enhance the weight loss process. Included in the program is promises of accountability and a wealth of other helpful information, including how to keep you on track with times get tough and the cravings creep up. As previously mentioned, when this happens, you'll find one of the best things you can do is reach for one of the top healthy food replacement options that you'll learn about here.

Cauliflower for Potatoes

What beats a steamy bowl of mashed potatoes, complete with butter, sour cream, salt and pepper? How about a steamy bowl of mashed cauliflower with ghee, salt and pepper? Don't take our word for it, though, go ahead and try it. Simply boil or steam a cut up head of cauliflower until the cauliflower is soft (around 20 minutes). From there, place it in a food processor with a spoonful of ghee (clarified butter that lacks the hormones and cholesterol that regular butter contains), and salt and pepper. The ghee has much more flavor than butter does, and though the cauliflower texture isn't identical to that of mashed potatoes, it's pretty close. If you don't love mashed potatoes (or cauliflower), consider roasting the cauliflower in olive oil,  Italian seasoning, and salt and pepper. Either cauliflower option will serve as an outstanding low carbohydrate option to replace the simple carbohydrate-stuffed potato.

Nut Butter for Cheese

Dairy in moderation can be fine, though you'll find that too much of it is not a great thing. A lot of dairy is chock-full of growth hormones that contribute to inflammation and stunt any hope of losing weight, and all dairy is packed with cholesterol with no added benefit (maybe other than a vitamin or two). Your best bet? Put the dairy away and opt for some nut-cheese. Blanched almonds or cashews, when processed with a bit of olive oil and salt, will make a wonderful cheese like substance that actually stands in as a nearly identical replacement in pasta dishes and appetizing dips and sauces. Add some spices and change it up to alter a recipe for a new or unique taste!

Zucchini Noodles for Pasta

By now, in your weight loss journey, you've probably figured out that simple carbohydrates aren't good for you. On the contrary, they're actually very bad for you. Simple carbohydrates are turned to sugar in the body; they toy with our blood sugar and turn to fat simply because our bodies don't need them. This means pasta is one of the worst things you can put into your body when you're trying to lose weight. Many people can't take the idea of living pasta-less lives, so these people have turned to the zucchini in a life changing turn of events. Have you ever heard of a spiralizer? You can put almost anything in a spiralizer and turn it into noodles. Zucchinis happen to work really well with this. When done correctly, you can still eat your pasta sauce with zucchini noodles, and rather than overloading your body on carbs, you're overloading it with nutritious vegetables (and getting the same great taste). Simply spiralize your zucchini, place the spirals on a paper towel lined cookie sheet, and allow the noodles to “sweat” their moisture out in the oven (on 200 degrees). Once the noodles have sweat their crunch out, they'll strongly resemble a noodle in appearance, in taste and in texture.

In all of your weight loss efforts, don't forget to find replacements for the foods you love! Your body and your tastebuds will thank you for it later.