Winter is a great season for hot pot, but friends who want to lose weight are hesitant—they want to eat but dare not. Now, let Ru Hua, a weight loss expert, tell you how to enjoy hot pot without gaining weight, and what to eat and what to avoid!
1. Sauces -- Avoid: Satay sauce, sesame oil, egg yolk. Welcome: Light Japanese soy sauce, scallions, minced garlic.
Each teaspoon of satay sauce has as high as 166 calories, a real enemy of your figure. Next are sesame oil and egg yolk, which are also high in calories.
Light Japanese soy sauce is low in calories. Adding some chopped scallions makes the sauce more fragrant. Minced garlic is also very low in calories. For those who love the taste of garlic, adding it to light soy sauce won't make you gain weight.
2. Meats -- Avoid: Pork belly, pork shoulder, marbled pork. Welcome: Chicken breast.
Red meat is the main "must-have" for everyone when eating hot pot, and they often order three to five plates. It's satisfying to eat, but the fat and cholesterol leave "after-effects." Each slice of pork belly has 30 calories and a lot of fat, making it highly fattening.
Chicken breast is the lowest-calorie meat among red and white meats. Although it can be dry, it has no excess fat. When choosing meat, look at the white fat and skin. If the white fat is as much as the red meat, be careful, as the calories are surprisingly high.
3. Staples -- Avoid: Fish balls with filling, fish tofu, fish skin dumplings. Welcome: Konjac noodles, glass noodles.
One piece of fish tofu has a quarter of the calories of a bowl of rice! A small fish skin dumpling also has over 20 calories! Although these processed balls and dumplings come in various shapes and flavors, be wary of the high-calorie trap. Many dumplings contain fatty minced meat to enhance the taste, and eating too many will surely lead to excess calories!
Glass noodles and konjac noodles are filling. Glass noodles have fewer calories than rice and wheat noodles, making them a hot pot ingredient recommended by nutritionists.
4. Side Dishes -- Avoid: Pork blood. Welcome: Mushrooms, radish, bok choy.
Don't think that because it's pork blood and not pork, it has much fewer calories. In fact, pork blood has nearly 100 calories, and you can unknowingly consume too many calories.
The soup stewed with mushrooms, radish, and bok choy is delicious. Mushrooms are also filling and low in calories, so maintaining your figure isn't difficult with them.