Food To Avoid To Lose Weight

There’s a lot of things going on in the food we eat and how it ultimately affects your body and your health. Being overweight can cause a number of serious health problems. There’s some food to avoid to lose weight and be healthy.

Of course most people know about saturated fat and trans fatty acids and the potential problems that they can cause with your cardiovascular health. Heart disease, plaque build up, cancer, etc. The food you eat at fast food restaurants tend to be high in both saturated fat and trans fatty acids. If you must eat there stick to the salads (low fat or no fat dressings) and broiled chicken.

Refined and processed foods also tend to make losing weight more difficult and often times lead to weight gain and poor nutrition instead. Refined foods such as white rice, white flour, bleached flour, etc. have had the vitamins and nutrients bleached out and the body doesn’t work as hard to digest it, meaning you’ll tend to gain more weight, if that’s not bad enough you’re also filling up with empty calories. The fiber in unrefined foods help to move the excess food you eat out of the body before it turns to fat and help lose weight.

Also avoid sugary foods and high glycemic foods. For example, certain types of refined carbohydrate (those with a high-GI value) is absorbed by the body to quickly and raises the blood sugar levels causing a “sugar spike”. This in turn causes the body to “overract” and produce to much insulin which results in producing low blood sugar. Thus you get a “yo-yo effect” often resulting in mood and appetite swings.

Eating low glycemic food results in more consistent blood sugar levels. Low glycemic foods includes apples, plums, cherries, yogurt, skim milk, etc. High sugary foods should also be avoided. Fruit contains sugars so whenever possibly eat the entire fruit as it contains fiber that won’t cause as much of a spike in your bloodsugar.

Other food to avoid to lose weight are hydrogenated oil, partially hydrogenated oil, vegetable shortening, high fructose corn syrup, corn oil, margerine, food preservatives.

A weight loss tip that you may want to keep in mind is eating regularly, eat smaller but more frequent meals and snacks. This produces a more consistent blood sugar level and you’ll have less mood swings and be less likely to “binge”.