Worst Diet Foods

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Worst Foods You’ve come to terms with yourself and decided that you need to go on a diet. Remember that the purpse of dieting should NOT be just to lose some weight (unless you only have 5 to 10 pounds to shed, and even then there is a “bigger picture”). More importantly to change your eating habits and create a happier, HEALTHIER you!

The food you consume is used by your body like the gas you put in your car. Would you knowingly pour muddy gasoline in your gas tank instead of clean gasoline?

Probably not…unless you’re doing some sort of strange experiment and don’t care about your car. So why not take the same care when putting fuel into your body?

You can always replace a car, you can’t replace your body! It is important to read the labels of the food you intend to eat, steer clear of foods that are high in saturated fat, sodium, transfat, and of course sugar.

The following are the worst five foods that you can put into your body. These foods may halt your weight loss and promote weight gain. They are always unhealthy choices.

1. FRIED FOODS This should truly come as no surprise, but fried foods are bad for you! These foods are cooked in heated, overcooked oils and dripping with grease.

Would you pour a gallon of grease down your sink drain? I didn’t think so…so why would you put that into your body?

Don’t get me wrong, we’re almost all gulty of eating these foods because they taste great and they’re usually convenient, but that is exactly why the percentage of obese children grow each day. We teach our children by what we do. They learn their eating habbits from us.

One of the most popular fried foods is french fries. They are high in fat and salt and dangerously harmful to your body. However, since french fries and other fried foods have come to be “comfort foods” for most of us, don’t expect to never eat them again. Just be more mindful of what you order (as these are usually grabbed on the go from fast food chains or restaurants) or what you cook yourself.

2. POTATO CHIPS Again, it is pretty common knowledge that potato chips are bad for you. They are the main snack food most of us grab while we’re sitting on the couch watching tv, or at a barbeque.

Most snack foods are extremely high in saturated fat. It’s a better idea to grab a piece of fruit instead. If you are a huge potato chip eater, snack on baked chips instead. At very least cut down on your intake of chips. If you eat them less and less, little by little, eventually you won’t even miss them at all. Just believe in yourself that YOU CAN DO IT!

3. BUTTER AND CHEESE Both butter and cheese top many of our favorite foods and neither is particularly healthy. In fact, both are bad for your health and your waist-line. They have extremely high levels of saturated fat and will clog your arteries along with causing weightgain. If you must have cheese, you can always use low-fat cheese but you should try to use as little as possible.

4. DONUTS This is one of my personal weaknesses but I have changed my outlook on snacking. Donuts can be fried or processed but either way they’re bad. Donuts pack tons of calories and sugar but no real substance and certainly no nutritional value.

5. SODA POP Carbonated drinks are bad for us! Another piece of common knowledge. Don’t fool yourself into believing that diet sodas or zero calorie sodas are okay because none of them are good for you. If you absolutely HAVE to have a soda, try to limit yourself to one a day. That is still not recommended but it’s much better than having three or four. Teach yourself to enjoy that one a day and drink water or 100% real fruit juice the rest of the time (keep in mind you don’t get all of the nutrients and goodness from juice as you do from a real piece of fruit). Soda is crammed full with sugar and chemicals that your body just does not need.

The bottom line is to be informed of what you are putting into your body. The better you eat the better you will feel. It may take a while for you to get used to eating better, but your body will thank you later. Just like anything else, your body is used to what you put into it day in and day out.

Eating habits including the caloric intake and quality (or lack there of) of food you subject your body to every day is what your body is used to getting…so give yourself a few days to “detox” from these unhealthy foods. It will get easier day by day. Remember you are what you eat.

The cravings will get easier to deal with and dissipitate once you get your body used to eating healthier more nutritional foods. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have a “sweet” snack or a small helping of potato chips once in a while, it just means you should limit yourself on how much of these bad foods you will allow yourself to consume.

By Staff Writer Amy Cravin

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