3. Cold potatoes
One of the types of food people usually associate with high-calorie count and gaining weight is potatoes, and they tend to avoid them all they can when in a self-designed diet to lose weight.
However, if you want to get in shape, potatoes can actually be your friends. Besides fat, the nutrient that is best known to play a part in gaining or losing weight is carbohydrates – also known as sugars – and potatoes actually have plenty of those, but the good kind, just as it happens with avocado and good fat.
Carbs found in sweet potatoes are heavy molecules, so they are digested very slowly; as a result, it takes more time for your body to be done with them and ask for more, so eventually you feel more full and reduce your food intake. When potatoes are cooled down, the molecules inside them crystallize, so they are digested even more slowly.
