Not Losing Weight Because of "Healthy" Foods?
Weight Loss Depends on Eating Less or Burning More. So Called "Healtlhy" Foods Can Bring with them Hundreds of Extra Calories. See How
HEALTHY LOOKING FOODS:
Almost everyone realizes that you gain tens of pounds eating fast foods, pizza, highcalorehealthyfoodspart1and a bag of chips. However, a common problem occurs when weight loss slows down, and you become bored and careless and begin choosing what appears to be "healthy" and low calorie foods when they are not. Here is a chance to see if you are making this mistake.
Here is a group of foods that might make good choices until you see the calories and the fat. Each of the foods on the right are arranged by when you might eat them from breakfast thru dinner.
The low fat muffin or 1/2 group of granola for breakfast might look like a good choice, but does low fat or "healthy" really mean low calories?
For lunch you will see a tuna fish sandwich which is a good choice except for the mayo, which can add hundreds of calories. Compare it to a ham and cheese sandwich which may be without the mayo 300 calories.
The pretzel is a real fool-er, lots of calories, all carbs and no nutrient value at all.
The little piece of white bread at an Italian restaurant is not so bad, until you smoother it in olive oil.
Almost all of us assumes Japanese food is low in calories and healthy. However, on you right is a fried, shrimp-tempura roll. What started out healthy was changed by the frying process.
SALAD ISSUES:
The lesson for everyone, don't assume something is low in calories and fat until you have looked at it carefully. Often the extras or how it is prepared can add hundreds of calories.
Think Salads Are Low?1200 Calorie Salads May Shock You
Chicken Caeser, Cobb Salads, and Chef Salads can easily exceed 1000 calories or more! What might be low may not be so low. Even a Big Mac may have lower calories and fat content.
March 30, 2009: Journal of Consumer Research
Mary Ann Twist reports in her press release "Full Disclosure: People Will Make Healthier Choices if Restaurants Provide Nutritional Data" that better food choices are made when nutritional information is supplied.
The authors of the study noted that trying to estimate calories by sight is almost impossible. In a study where calories and fat were supplied after the subjects ate the food, they noted better choices in future meals. Apparently when a seemingly "low calorie" item turns out to have much higher calories than the subject thought, the food is much easily avoided in future meals.
TOO MANY NUTS CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN
Latest News On Nut Consumption and Obesity: They might prevent weight gain.
Released in April 2009, the Women's Health Initiative reports that after following more than 51, 000 women for 8 years there was less weight gain(about lb.) in those subjects that ate nuts twice or more a week.
We need to be careful, this does not mean the more nuts you eat the more you lose. It was only about not gaining weight, and the differences were reported as "slight." The problem is the misinterpretation of this data. Nuts add extra calories, for those trying to limit their calories, it makes a poor choice. This massive, long term study did not say that if you eat nuts you would lose
weight.
Eating so-called "health" foods can stop any attempt at weight loss and even make you gain weight without even realizing it. Calories are more important than low fat, low carb,
high protein or food claiming so-called "health" benefits. When the extra calories of health foods make you fat, any benefit, if any, is eliminated by the clear dangers of weight gain.
Here is the weight gain when eating a single serving a day for a year, assuming these represents
excess calories:
These are NOT "free" calories. They count! How we get fooled into thinking we can lose weight eating high calorie, fattening with portion control. See In Part 1
Oprah has recently given up on dieting and is seeking "balance" and eating "health" foods. In fact, she was eating so called "health foods"--nuts, olive oil, whole grains and brown rice all along.
How did it help her? Not much.
She still struggled for 20 years and will struggle the rest of her life until she realizes that fat people cannot imitate skinny people and lose and maintain their weight. Oprah's struggle mirrors all over weight American's struggle.Their obsession with so called "health" foods--especially the low fat and more recently the low carb ones has not failed to reverse the obesity epidemic.
Not losing weight? "Health" foods have fueled the obesity epidemic.
Instead of rethinking the message, people have simply try harder: lower and lower fat, more and more exercise, eating more and more high calorie "health' foods.
Skinny people are different from fat people:
Besides not recognizing that skinny people like different foods, like to exercise, often forget to eat, and rarely eat of anxiety, stress or boredom, they forgot three basics concepts:
"Health foods" often are high in calories:
Look at olive oil & nuts- both 130 calories/ serving. Eating an extra 100 calories a day for a year adds 12 lbs and 2 inches to every one's waist.
"Health" foods have serious portion control problems:
Maybe a skinny person can eat 10 almonds and be done, but not an overweight individual. If they could they probably would not be fat in the first place.
"Health" foods have an aura of being low in calories:
Everyone struggling with their weight needs less food, when they see "reduced," lite, low, no fat, low carbs they have an excuse to eat more.
Losing weight is more important than eating "health" foods:
Which is more important the weight loss associated with reducing calories or the possible benefits, if any, from eating foods that carry "healthy" labels. All the evidence points to the fact that if you reduce 2 inches from your waist line you lower blood pressure, heart disease and cholesterol by more than 25%. The effects of so called "health" foods on these metabolic parameters are unknown, and may not be seen for 25 years, if at all. Can you wait to find the answer?
Calories are calories
Everyone trying to lose and keep his weight off needs to eat less, not more food--"healthy" or n