When it comes to a weight loss diet 'sweet' may not mean the taste of success.
How many of you have started on a weight loss programme where you have restricted your calories and fat but have not had the success you expected? Many popular weight loss programs actually encourage you to eat sugar and this may be why they fail.
I understand you may be wondering what I am talking about - of course you don't eat sugar when you are on a weight loss program.
Right? Wrong - many of the so called 'diet foods' contain plenty of sugar.
Low fat foods are often laden with sugar to compensate for the reduced fat.
Also foods such as white pasta and bagels are going directly to the sweet department of your body to be available to use as fuel for your muscles.
So why is this bad? Two reasons: 1.
If you are not expending as much energy as you should be during the course of your day, this excess energy is going to go directly to your fat piggy bank to be used later when it is need.
The problem is we keep saving this energy and just like a real piggy bank our fat piggy bank just keeps getting fuller.
Not good.
2.
All this sweet taste, even if it is artificial such as in diet sodas, keeps you wanting more.
The more sugar or simple carbs you eat the more you usually want.
This state is commonly known as cravings and the more cravings for sweet you have the harder it will be for you to crack open that fatty bank and spend your fat stores.
So what do we do now? Try for 4 weeks to eliminate most grains, and simple starchy carbs from your diet.
This includes cereals apart from natural oatmeal, all white starches - white potatoes, rice, flour, bread, etc.
Follow the dietditch program and limit your fruit to include those on the tart side, granny smith apples, and grapefruit and reap the benefits.
Cravings will soon be a thing of the past and you will sail through your weight loss experience to a new you.
How many of you have started on a weight loss programme where you have restricted your calories and fat but have not had the success you expected? Many popular weight loss programs actually encourage you to eat sugar and this may be why they fail.
I understand you may be wondering what I am talking about - of course you don't eat sugar when you are on a weight loss program.
Right? Wrong - many of the so called 'diet foods' contain plenty of sugar.
Low fat foods are often laden with sugar to compensate for the reduced fat.
Also foods such as white pasta and bagels are going directly to the sweet department of your body to be available to use as fuel for your muscles.
So why is this bad? Two reasons: 1.
If you are not expending as much energy as you should be during the course of your day, this excess energy is going to go directly to your fat piggy bank to be used later when it is need.
The problem is we keep saving this energy and just like a real piggy bank our fat piggy bank just keeps getting fuller.
Not good.
2.
All this sweet taste, even if it is artificial such as in diet sodas, keeps you wanting more.
The more sugar or simple carbs you eat the more you usually want.
This state is commonly known as cravings and the more cravings for sweet you have the harder it will be for you to crack open that fatty bank and spend your fat stores.
So what do we do now? Try for 4 weeks to eliminate most grains, and simple starchy carbs from your diet.
This includes cereals apart from natural oatmeal, all white starches - white potatoes, rice, flour, bread, etc.
Follow the dietditch program and limit your fruit to include those on the tart side, granny smith apples, and grapefruit and reap the benefits.
Cravings will soon be a thing of the past and you will sail through your weight loss experience to a new you.
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