48kg Lee Ji-ah, the secret to her bone-thin body? “Be sure to have ‘this’ with you when you eat”

Actress Lee Ji-ah (46) revealed her eating method to maintain her body.

Lee Ji-ah, who recently appeared on the tvN entertainment program ‘Mostly Just the Two of Us’, visited a restaurant with actress Kim Go-eun and ordered cabbage Caesar salad and a taco platter. Kim Go-eun, who ate the salad, said, “It’s so delicious,” and added, “I started liking salad while traveling with my sister.”

Lee Ji-ah said, “I always order salad. “It’s good to eat like that,” he said. “That way, your blood sugar level won’t rise too much.” “So, am I gaining less weight?” Lee Ji-ah is known to be 168cm tall and weigh 48kg.

Salad rich in dietary fiber, makes you feel fuller and prevents blood sugar spikes

If you eat salad with rice like Ji-ah Lee, the salad is rich in dietary fiber, so it is digested and absorbed slowly, preventing your blood sugar from rising rapidly. To maximize this principle, it is a good idea to follow the ‘upside down eating method’, in which you eat salad first, followed by protein and carbohydrate foods.

Conversely, the eating method is to divide the nutrients in a meal into dietary fiber, protein, and carbohydrates and consume them in this order. If you eat dietary fiber → protein → carbohydrates in this order, you can prevent your blood sugar from soaring and induce a feeling of fullness quickly, preventing overeating.

In fact, according to a research team at Cornell University, the group that consumed dietary fiber first and then protein and carbohydrates consumed fewer calories and were less tempted to eat fatty or fried foods than the group that did not.

It is more effective when eaten in the order of dietary fiber → protein → carbohydrates.

If you eat dietary fiber first, it takes a long time to be digested, so your blood sugar must rise slowly to prevent you from feeling hungry easily. Additionally, vegetables that contain a lot of dietary fiber need to be chewed for a long time, so the center that senses fullness is stimulated in the process. As you feel fuller, it also helps you reduce your protein and carbohydrate intake.

The reason protein is consumed before carbohydrates is because it is less likely to be converted to fat than carbohydrates and provides a greater feeling of fullness. In particular, vegetable proteins (legumes) cause blood sugar to rise more slowly than animal proteins (fish and meat), so it is best to eat vegetable proteins first.

The reason for consuming carbohydrates last is to reduce the amount eaten as much as possible. Among carbohydrate foods, refined carbohydrates such as rice, noodles, and bread are more likely to increase blood sugar levels and turn into fat than other nutrients. Therefore, if you already fill your stomach with dietary fiber and protein foods, you will reduce your carbohydrate intake due to satiety.