Avoid These 2 Foods When Losing Weight
The 2 foods to be avoided may come as a surprise to you. You may even find it hard to believe. The common belief would be that they are fine to have as part of a controlled diet. It comes as a big surprise for most people, to learn that they should ditch them.
It is a reasonably well known fact that when dieting, trans fats are to be avoided, and also to be avoided is the high-fructose corn syrup. I am sure you are aware of this. I’m not going to go there - I am not talking about either of these.
Number one to be avoided when you are on a diet, is all wheat products - that means anything that contains wheat. This would include bread of all types, bagels, pasta and cereals (and this even includes all those “whole wheat” cereals).
The reasons for wheat products are, first of all, much of the population has an allergy to the gluten in wheat products and other grains. But what most people do not realise is that we were never meant to have a large proportion of wheat in our diet. Our digestive system has never adjusted to it.
Wheat has only appeared in the human diet in the last couple of thousand years or so, and has NEVER been such a large part of our diet until the last 80 to 100 years! Previous to that, we had a much healthier diet which consisted mainly of a mixture of of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.
When someone is trying to lose weight, they should try to eliminate wheat from their diet for 2 to 3 weeks. If they do this, they will lose weight and they will feel a lot better also. In some cases, it has been known to eliminate headaches and indigestion problems that had been plaguing people for years.
The second food that I would recommend you avoid comes as a surprise to almost everybody, because I am referring to good old fruit juice. It’s known as a healthy choice and does not seem out of place in a weight loss program.
Don’t get me wrong - I am not totally against carbohydrates. I believe that most fruits are actually very healthy, when they are consumed whole. But when you separate the juice from the fiber and the other beneficial parts of the fruit, it’s no longer useful for dieting. What is left is a sugary mixture that is high in calories.
If you only drink the fruit juice, you are missing the fiber. Apples and oranges are two of the best examples of this problem. You will only end up craving more carbohydrates. Fiber in fruit helps to quell hunger, and unlike the fruit juice, it slows down the response of the blood sugar.
To sum up, having too much fruit juice is only going to make you fat. But eating whole fruits is an important part of a weight-loss diet and it will provide a high level of nutrients to your body. Of course, this also depends on you keeping processed foods out of your diet as much as possible.