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Of course, the part that’s relevant to you—the weight loss part—doesn’t involve sweating out a confession from a perp or adding diamonds to a rapper’s teeth. (Although both would seem to make eating a lot pretty impossible.) But the grill that’s hanging out in your backyard, providing a great place for spiders to spin their webs? Well, once you learn to fire it up right, you’ll discover that it just might be the most effective weight-loss tool in your arsenal.
How's that, you ask? Isn't the grill where we turn to cook fatty steaks and burgers? Sure, but that's not as bad as it seems. When you drop a piece of meat on your grill, much of the fat bubbles out and burns up on the coals below. A study in the journal Meat Science found that grilling a pork chop by conventional methods could actually decrease its fat content by nearly a third.
Now, you may want to take the lazy route and just order something grilled from your local restaurant. But here's where things get tricky. In many cases, restaurant “grills” are actually grill plates, or hot slabs of flat metal that lock fat in instead of cooking it out. Plus, restaurants routinely paint their meats with hot oil and clarified butter, effectively ramping up the fat count to flab-inducing levels.
So if you want it cooked right, you have to cook it at home. Eighty-two percent of American households already own a grill, and the Cook This, Not That!research here demonstrates that by grilling in instead of eating out, you can save from 500 to more than 1,500 calories per meal. With just the four swaps in this slideshow, you can trim nearly 5,000 calories from your diet—enough to blast nearly a pound and a half from your gut. What’s the catch? There is none! You’ll also save nearly $40 by staying out of the restaurants! So pop open a cold drink, fire up the grill, and call up some friends. It’s time to start grilling your way to a lean belly.
How's that, you ask? Isn't the grill where we turn to cook fatty steaks and burgers? Sure, but that's not as bad as it seems. When you drop a piece of meat on your grill, much of the fat bubbles out and burns up on the coals below. A study in the journal Meat Science found that grilling a pork chop by conventional methods could actually decrease its fat content by nearly a third.
Now, you may want to take the lazy route and just order something grilled from your local restaurant. But here's where things get tricky. In many cases, restaurant “grills” are actually grill plates, or hot slabs of flat metal that lock fat in instead of cooking it out. Plus, restaurants routinely paint their meats with hot oil and clarified butter, effectively ramping up the fat count to flab-inducing levels.
So if you want it cooked right, you have to cook it at home. Eighty-two percent of American households already own a grill, and the Cook This, Not That!research here demonstrates that by grilling in instead of eating out, you can save from 500 to more than 1,500 calories per meal. With just the four swaps in this slideshow, you can trim nearly 5,000 calories from your diet—enough to blast nearly a pound and a half from your gut. What’s the catch? There is none! You’ll also save nearly $40 by staying out of the restaurants! So pop open a cold drink, fire up the grill, and call up some friends. It’s time to start grilling your way to a lean belly.
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