By Galyna Azarova

Have you wondered how many calories in sushi?

Fortunately sushi is not a fattening food and contains not much calories. It is made with white, short-grained, Japanese rice mixed with a dressing made of rice vinegar, sugar, and salt. Rice contains some amount of carbohydrates. Sushi can be eaten even without rice as sashimi which will also reduce amount of eaten calories. This traditional Japanese food is also rich in protein and this helps in building lean muscle.

Some restaurants with a preference for flavor over calorie watching may add to sushi rolls ingredients, such as mayonnaise, which will increase their caloric values. Sushi that contains mayonnaise and cream cheese, and also tempura sushi, are generally high in calories. They are not recommended in weight loss diets.

However, information on this page should give you good estimation of the calories and nutrition ingredients in various sushi items.

Check the amount of calories and nutrients in basic sushi rolls, Nigiri sushi (sushi on rice bed), sashimi (sushi without rice), and sushi condiments such as Wasabi.

Here are the amounts of calories in the most popular rolls.

One sushi Avocado Roll contains 140 kcal. California Roll has 255 kcal. Cucumber roll Kappa Maki will give you 136 kcal.

Another type of sushi, fish on rice bed, called Nigiri sushi usually served with fish that weighs approximately 0.5 oz or 14 grams.

Wild Salmon Sushi named Sake contains 50 calories. Shiro Maguro White Tuna (Albacore) Nigiri sushi has 55 calories. Nigiri sushi Buri with Yellowtail fish has 51 calories.

If you want to reduce your calories intake but still enjoy Japanese food, try eating sashimi, which is just fish with no rice. For example, Amaebi Sweet shrimp sashimi contains 30 calories per one ounce piece. Ikura Salmon sashimi has 19 calories per ounce. Tako sashimi with Octopus has 46 calories.

You might be surprised but even Wasabi Paste has decent amount of calories. One hundred grams (3.75 ounces) of Wasabi Paste contains 265 calories.

Check full list of sushi items, their calories and nutritional values, – fat, carbs, fiber and protein with TheCalorieCounter.net

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Slimfast and Sushi Diet
By Howard Melamed

I know what you are thinking. Yet another article written about dieting. In fact I am an expert dieter and I believe that I have as much knowledge as any of the experts that we see on television including Dr, Atkins! So what have I tried? Let’s see. I have tried: The Famous Peanut Butter and Ice Cream Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet, The 3 day Heart savers diet, The Atkins’ diet, Sugar Busters, Suzanne Summers (just the diet), lean cuisine, Slim Fast, Jennie Craig, Weight Watchers, the Carbohydrate Lovers diet, protein diet, oh and I forgot one, the low fat diet.

In all, by doing all of the above diets over the past 23 years, I have lost more than 2000 pounds (1 ton). So, yes your honor, I consider myself an expert in the field of diets. Especially Yo-Yo diets.

I always weigh myself while dieting, the more times a day the better. It’s like those stepping exercises you see in health clubs. I step on the scale then off the scale…on the scale then off the scale. It’s great exercise. I gauge the success of a specific diet by the scale in my bathroom. The scale should be a cheap one that you can “fix” to make it look like you’re losing weight. The placement of this scale is of utmost importance. It turns out that my loss of weight in any given day, really depends on which tile the scale is on. You see in each bathroom built in Coral Springs, there is a Nega-tile. This is the one spot in your bathroom, where you can place the scale and you actually lose pounds. Don’t believe me? Try it yourself. Move the scale at various points along your bathroom floor and you will find the one spot where you weigh less. I like that spot. It’s the negative “G” spot. You will learn to like it too, trust me.

So why haven’t the diets worked? It has absolutely nothing to do with me. I think it’s because I have a disorder called “I like to Eat”. It goes along with another disorder called “Can’t Shut My Mouth”. I can even eat while I am talking on the phone! There really is nothing wrong with that. Food is good. I like Food. I don’t eat to live, I live to eat! It makes me happy. Until I get on the scale. You see, it’s the scale that makes me sad. So I believe that I really have a scale problem and food has nothing to do with it.

I get the feeling that when I do go on a diet, or try to exercise, my body goes through what I call “Denial”. It denies me the ability to lose weight. The way I figure it, the human body is very smart. It knows when you are really serious about dieting and when you are not. I’m certain it gets a real laugh when I start to really exercise as it knows that this new way of life, dieting that is, probably isn’t going to last very long. One cruise…One buffet… and that’s it. Bodies are the problem here, they are in Denial, not me.

I also go to one of those fancy athletic supporter clubs. I call them athletic supporters because I really support them. I worked it out. I pay roughly $450 per visit. Since I pay for the club all year round and show up only once a year, that one time I exercise at the club costs me $450. I am athletically supporting the club, pathetically speaking of course.

I have also come to the conclusion that consuming a diet drink while eating something fattening like pizza cancels out all the fat in that pizza. The more diet drinks you consume the less likely that the fat is going to effect you. I think it’s something to do with physics. Fat is matter, and diet drinks are anti-matter which when combined, produces something they call in physics “Doesn’t Matter”.

When I was on The Atkins’ diet I was in great shape. I lost a lot of poundage which quickly came back because who in their right mind can stay on a diet that feeds you fat and denies you fruit and vegetables. I can see Dr. Atkins saying to his patients “Eat this fat…it’s good for you! And by the way, have a smoke while you are at it!”.

While on the Atkins, I dined at quaint but super breakfast and luncheon restaurants. I would always order a 4 cheese omelet with bacon, sausage and an extra order of sausage on the side for good measure. I would ask the waitress to not bring out the tomatoes or toast because I was on a diet! I would raise my voice slightly, because my dieting was everyone else’s problem. I made sure of that. “Atkins?” she asked. “Yes” I said. She shook her head from side to side and walked away laughing to herself. She yelled to the cook ” Make that a number 2 with a side of sausage!.” I screamed back and said ” I wish”. You see one of the drawbacks of being on the Atkins diet is constipation. Dr. Atkins’ has a great sense of humor if nothing else. Given the side affects on this diet…you better have one too!

It’s not my fault, I’m handicapped; Either horizontally embellished or my girth is excessively accentuated. Should I be responsible for something I can’t help? So I have no explanation when it comes to why I am 20-30 pounds overweight at any given time in my life. More specifically I can’t seem to get rid of those so called “love handles”. Maybe I am fat because I consume too much air or it must be drinking that bottled water. One thing is certain. When you are a Diet Expert like me, you can come up with all sorts of reasons why you haven’t lost weight.

Which brings me to the one diet that I know works. It’s the infamous or soon to be infamous Sushi-Slim Fast diet plan. (Please note: This is not to be confused by the Modified Wolcove Slimfast diet, invented by a friend of mine. His diet was truly amazing. You have a slim fast shake in the morning, followed immediately by eggs, bacon and sausage. For lunch…another shake, followed by hamburgers and French fries. Then for supper.. it’s a big salad, with steak. You leave out the potatoes and desert because after all you are on a diet. He never lost a pound but was very happy.)

Watch out for impostors! Beware of imitations! Make no mistakes. There is only one true and tried Howard Melamed ’s SLIM-FAST-SUSHI diet and remember you heard about it here first on your own.

The beauty of this diet is that Sushi is the most filling food that you can get. It does not contain any animal fats, but it does contain good fish oils. Try to eat as much as it takes to fill you up…or stop when you run out of cash. The Slim Fast Shake gives you a stable source of energy, with no fat. It is also the easy way for breakfast since all you have to do is grab one out of the refrigerator. In the table below any lunch can be replaced by Sushi or one of those awful chocolate Slim Fast bars.

Here is the 7 day plan for my Slim Fast – Sushi Diet:

Monday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Forget about it. What do you think this is? A cruise?

Tuesday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Forget about it. Don’t you want to lose weight? Stop eating snacks!

Wednesday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Forget about it. Your not listening!

Thursday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Forget about it. What are you doing up at this time? You need the rest!

Friday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Forget about it. Go to Starbucks and have a nice strong coffee. Maybe if your up all night you’ll lose some more weight

Saturday

Breakfast: Slim Fast Shake

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: You have been good eat something else instead of Sushi. Stay away from the bread and potatoes

Bedtime Snack: Water

Sunday

Breakfast: Sleep in and Lose a meal.

Mid Morning Snack: Forget about it

Lunch: Slim Fast Shake

Afternoon Snack: Forget about it

Dinner: Sushi

Bedtime Snack: Go to bed already!

You can substitute any Slim Fast Shake at lunch time for Sushi Lunch Specials. Have as much raw fish as you can suck in. Stay away from the fired Mayo, anything sweet, and try to substitute the white rice with Brown rice once and a while. Repeat the above until you are a)sick of Sushi b) developed a tape worm from eating Sushi which is great in a way since you will be losing a lot more weight than this diet can offer c) You end up with Mercury poison from all of the fish you are eating. d) your grocery store runs out of SlimFast shakes, which you can always buy online from some other dieting company.

Here you will have the unique opportunity of following a diet that will hopefully be accepted as a huge (watch it!) rather a widely (hey!) acclaimed success!

Become one of those faithful followers of the SlimFast and Sushi Diet and lose the weight. Please let me know of your successes. The good news is that there is nothing that I am selling you.

Enjoy!

Howard Melamed is living proof that the Science of Opportunity works. His book ” the Science of Opportunity ” has helped people make decisions in their life moving forward in business and personal relationships. ( http://www.scienceofopportunity.com )

As Howard moved through life, he continued to see opportunity where others did not and then capitalize on his insight and using his foresight as a marketer to ride the crest of the Internet wave with his ecommerce store-all unique openings he identified and developed following the principles of The Science of Opportunity.

To those who might say he is lucky, Howard explains that, luck had nothing to do with it. He always found a way to be open to, recognize, and act on opportunity when it came his way. Today Howard is CEO and President of the CellAntenna Corporation, ( http://www.cellantenna.com ) a multinational, multimillion- dollar telecommunications service company with employees worldwide. He has been interviewed by Associated Press, International Tribune, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, MSNBC and on numerous radio talk shows. He continues to contribute articles to his Web site and plans to publish two more novels in 2011.

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If you are on diet and you like sushi, you are in luck. Sushi helps you maintain your healty diet, but beware! Not all sushi are low in calory. When it comes to choosing low cal sushi, all you do is excercise your common sense. Anything cooked including tempura and spider rolls are high in calory because… you guessed it. An oil is used in the process of making them. Go for the sushi with fresh ingredient, but stay away from those with mayo. Again, no brainer.

Author: Simmy Redalph

How about as many bananas as you want every morning and down it with warm water? Well this is the foundation of the Japanese banana diet; the diet that started to make some noises last year. So how does this Japanese banana diet works? Well here is short description and a plan for the Japanese banana diet that made noises and continues to make noise of the right kind this year.

Planning is a key in the Japanese banana diet

Here we list the five major key points that should be remembered by the interested person if he or she wants to take the Japanese banana diet seriously:
• For breakfast. You need to eat one or a few pieces of banana and you need to wash it down with warm water. This is the important requirement for the Japanese banana diet.
• Lunch. Sensible lunch choices and the good thing here is that there will be no restrictions on what you will eat for lunch.
• Snack. Is it nice to see a diet that allows room for snacks? Other dieting plans will scrap the need to have a snack hour since this will only contribute to the growing amount of calories in the body. But not with the Japanese banana diet. With the Japanese banana diet, you get to have your snack time and according to the Japanese banana diet you can get your snack at around 3pm.

Feel free to choose dinner for Japanese banana diet but dessert is out of the question
• Dinner to be set before 8pm. There will be no restrictions for your dinner too, but of course it pays to make sensible choices in your Japanese banana diet. If you make sensible choices under the Japanese banana diet, then you improve your chance of slimming faster and healthier. One key point for this time of the day is for you to avoid desserts. This is quite logical enough; you will pile on added calories since desserts are often packed with calories. And finally, the Japanese banana diet calls for you to;
• Sleep before midnight. It’s nice to give the body a rest. This is the perfect end for the Japanese banana diet plan.

Stick with the 5 key points of Japanese banana diet to get results

And when you stick with these five key points on the Japanese banana diet, then you ensure that you will slim down in a short period of time. But why does these five-step Japanese banana diet works? And what’s with this Japanese banana diet that makes it one of the best known diets to have come out of the country? There are a number of reasons why this kind of diet works. First of all, you can really lose weight when you eat any kind of breakfast- whether those are bananas or pancakes. Eating your breakfast will offer that metabolism boost that can help your body burn as much as 300 calories per day. And when you eat a banana every morning under the Japanese banana diet, then you will only get 100 or around 200 calories which is really small compared with the other breakfast food items. This alone makes this five-step suggestion of the Japanese banana diet works.

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