Stop Eating These 10 Foods to Drop the Fat

Top 10 Unhealthy Health Foods

#1: Diet Soda – You already know diet soda isn’t good for you, but just how bad is it? Artificial sweeteners, combined with artificial flavors and colors in a carbonated beverage is a recipe for disaster. Diet soda is nothing but water and chemicals. Some of these chemicals are known to cause cancer. Choose water with a twist of lemon instead.

#2: Bran Muffins – Beware of portion size. Many bran muffins are huge and pack in a ton of fat, calories and sugar, leading to a late-morning energy crash. Even Starbucks’ popular and relatively healthier Apple Bran Muffin has 350 calories and 9 grams of fat, which still won’t be any major help in keeping your waistline trim. It might be a good idea to avoid muffins altogether. Instead, consider a bowl of bran cereal and small serving of fresh fruit.

#3: Frozen Yogurt – Don’t be fooled. This soft-serve treat may be low in fat, but it’s high in sugar. Just 8 oz of your favorite frozen yogurt can easily contain over 50 grams of sugar and 240 calories or more. Sprinkle with yogurt chips and that’s another 20 grams of sugar and 140 more calories. You could end up with more sugar than a can of soda and some candy bars combined.

#4: Granola Bars – Check the fine print. Granola bars may seem like a healthy alternative to cookies and candy bars but they can actually have significantly more calories. Most granola bars are loaded with sugar and fat. One serving ofNatureValley’s Roasted Almond Crunch granola bar has 8 grams of fat and 11 grams of sugar.

#5: Fruit Juice – Try eating whole fruit. Some fruit juices contain so much sugar you might as well be drinking pop. Just because the packaging says “contains real fruit juice” doesn’t mean the beverage inside is good for you. Eat whole fruit instead and you’ll get tons more antioxidants and fiber, without the insulin spike and crash you get from juice.

#6: Salad – Salads aren’t a health food once you pile on the toppings. Many restaurant salads are packed with add-ins, such as cheese, bacon bits, creamy dressings, and croutons. With added toppings and dressing a salad is a waist-expander, rather than a low-fat lunch. Having lunch at TGI Friday’s. Their Grilled Chicken Cobb Salad has 1760mg of sodium, 36 grams of fat (including 70% of your daily intake of saturated fat) and 590 calories. You would have been better off ordering their Prime Rib Stroganoff if you’re watching your weight with half the sodium, a third the fat and only 390 calories.

#7: Smoothies – Make your own. Most smoothies are not diet friendly unless you make it yourself at home. The average large smoothie contains a whopping 520 calories and 100 grams of sugar. Choosing a smoothie for lunch may seem like the lighter option, but the truth is you’ll get lots more energy from a whole sandwich and vegetables, plus you’ll get fewer calories and less sugar.

#8: Instant Oatmeal / Boxed Cereal – Watch out for additives. The flavored packets of instant oatmeal generally have less protein and fiber, and more sugar, salt, and additives. Boxed cereal may brag about the vitamins and minerals it contains, but a closer look will reveal 10 grams of sugar. Try whole grain oatmeal or shredded wheat for a healthier alternative.

#9: Fat Free or Low-Fat Salad Dressing – Try a small portion on the side. Drenching your veggies with a dressing labeled fat-free means adding more calories and sodium to your meal. The fat in low-fat dressing has been replaced with sugar or artificial flavors and sweeteners. Try substituting with a dressing made with olive oil, or just use olive oil and vinegar.

#10: Frozen Diet Meals – Don’t be deceived. Most of the health benefits from frozen diet meals come from the small portion size. While low in fat, the majority of frozen dinners are high in salt. For a healthier option try preparing batches of food ahead of time and freezing them in small containers. You’ll have a quick and easy meal, without the salt and additives.

The Secret of Weight Loss

In the medical community, "obesity" is generally said to be present in women with more than 30% body fat and men with more than 25% body fat. "Morbid obesity," a more serious condition still, occurs when a person is 50-100% or 100 pounds above his or her ideal body weight or has more than 39% body fat. Medical problems commonly associated with morbid obesity include diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, certain cancers (including breast and colon cancer), depression, and osteoarthritis.

Obesity among the American population is a serious epidemic. The results of a 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicate that an estimated 64% of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese.

Millions of people approach weight control, focusing on the symptom. The symptom being the weight itself. These people put all their energy into baking it off, working it off, starving it off, or all kinds of fad diets.

They all experience the ups and downs on the weight charts and scale. This makes for a lot of upset and depressed people who think that they will never solve the problem of eliminating, permanently, those excess pounds and inches.

The only time that anyone has to be concerned with weight control is when they are eating. The fact of the matter is that people are concerned with weight before they eat and they beat themselves up after they eat. While people are eating there is no concern.

We spend a small amount of time each day eating and that is the only time that people have to increase their conscious awareness and focus on developing proper eating habits.

If you are overweight, you may be so because you formed a habit of eating improperly.

By re-educating your eating habits, you will find that you still enjoy eating and for much more positive reasons. You'll eliminate weight -- and you won't regain it.

The plan is very basic, simple, and easy. Every week, for a period of six weeks, you are going to practice a new and different mental exercise to help you change your eating habits.

WEEK ONE: Sit down to eat and drink. Even if it's only a piece of gum or a sip of water, sit down! This will help eliminate the unconscious snacking that is so much a part of being overweight. This also eliminates tasting foods for those who cook.

WEEK TWO: Relax! Take a minute to breathe comfortably and be thankful for the food in front of you. This will help you become aware of the foods that you eat and the way in which you eat them.

WEEK THREE: Chew your food well. Sip your drinks. Take small bites. Depending on what you are eating, chew from 25 to 40 times with each mouthful. By consuming small portions and eating more slowly, your taste buds will have a chance to get the full and wonderful flavor from the nutritious foods you are eating.

Your stomach will have a chance to tell your mind that you are full and satisfied and that you require a smaller amount of food than before. It can take the same amount of time to eat a small amount of food as it does to eat a large amount.

WEEK FOUR: Get rid of bad emotions and frustrations. if you have a problem or transaction that you are working on, clear your mind before you eat. Eating out of frustration is a very common bad habit.

WEEK FIVE: Think about the food you eat, especially the flavor.

WEEK SIX: Leave something on your plate (besides your fork). We’re conditioned to clean everything from our plates and programmed to believe that cleaning our plates will help starving children elsewhere in the world or that it’s a sin to waste food.

OTHER ATTITUDES TO CONSIDER

1. Refer to diets as menus.

2. Refer to losing weight as eliminating weight permanently.

3. Use smaller plates and glasses.

4. Serve yourself smaller portions.

5. Use one room in the house in which to eat, perhaps even one chair.

6. Keep a diary of the food you eat.

In addition to these exercises, it is important that you utilize the techniques learned in altered- states (hypnosis) to effect habit change and visualize exactly the way you want to look.

Imagine yourself standing on your bathroom scale and looking down at the weight you want to be.

Some sample weight control suggestions:

1. I weigh ___ pounds and am slim, healthy, and attractive.

2. I eat only those healthful, nutritious foods that allow me to maintain my weight at ___ pounds.

3. I eat my meals slowly and enjoy every bite. I taste and savor my food better than ever before.

4. The desire to eliminate fat from my body is stronger than ever before. I am, on a daily basis, eating less and enjoying food more, and the desire to eliminate weight is stronger than the desire to eat.

5. I see myself as being slim, trim, firm and solid. I think thin.

6. I am staying satisfied for longer periods of time. The desire to eliminate unnatural fat from my body is stronger than my desire to eat. I see fattening eating behavior and I have no desire to indulge in such behavior. I enjoy being slim, trim, thin and slender.

By utilizing these behavior modification suggestions you will completely re-educate your eating habits and will have formed a successful pattern for creating and maintaining a slim, trim, permanent new shape.

Article by Don L. Price

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Hypnosis goes to the CORE of your PROBLEM! Stop Having Stressful Days and Sleepless Nights Thinking About Your Weight? Finally There is a Better Way For Losing Those Excess Inches and Pounds!" Let's face the truth... Diets programs for many people just do not work. And the real reasons they don't work all boils down to one simple fact. People work only on the symptoms and not the problems. The symptoms are the excess weight and inches we put on our bodies by eating incorrectly The problem is in how we eat -- the mental attitudes and behaviors we have about food and self. Without question there are many other factors that contribute to weight gain and obesity as you know. Eating, when stressed, we shovel food down our stomach and eat too fast. Overeating -- we continue to stuff our stomachs when we are filled to the brim Our attitudes about wasting food. And a long list of other reasons that would fill this entire page. Unquestionably healthy weight elimination includes knowing what to eat -- However, more importantly is to develop and reeducate your mind with new eating habits and behaviors that result in permanent weight elimination for life. Hypnosis goes to the CORE of your PROBLEM!

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