6 Foods to Avoid for Weight Loss

New Year ... new diet! 2020 has arrived and it's time to start putting into practice everything you promised in 2019 (or 2018 ...)! Meet new people, travel more, read more, learn a new language - well-known resolutions that everyone makes at least once a year. However, if there’s something that a lot of people want and try to accomplish throughout the year, are diets and healthy habits! Weight loss is undoubtedly the New Year's resolution that everyone promises and only a few can accomplish. In & Out Cooking blog will show you 6 foods to avoid if you want to lose weight and become a healthier person this year.

Being overweight should not be seen as an aesthetic problem, but as a health problem. Overweight and obesity are, in most cases, associated with unhealthy diets and physical inactivity. However, these don’t have to be your habits, and with our help you can start your year in a healthy way and without major restrictions.

But… how do you know where to start? Losing weight doesn’t have to be an impossible mission - start with the simple practices and, gradually, eliminate food that should not be included in a healthy and balanced diet.

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Alcoholic Beverages

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Fruit Juices

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Soft Drinks

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Pastry

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Fried Foods

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Fast-Food

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Alcoholic Beverages

Few people are aware of this, but alcohol has a high level of calories in its composition. Drinking alcohol drinks on regular basis is not only, an unhealthy habit, as it can be preventing your from losing weight. Leave alcoholic beverages for special occasions only.

Fruit Juices

It’s difficult to resist a delicious fruit juice, whether it’s for breakfast, snack or even as post-workout drink. However, fruit juice may not be the best option for those who want to lose some weight. Most food that contains fructose, such as fruit, are nutritious and very good options to include on our diet. Fructose is a natural sugar found in all fruits and, consecutively, in all fruit juices. However, whole fruits have all their nutrients intact – which is not the case with fruit juices. Fruit juices remove most of the existing fibre and concentrate only the sugar - fructose. Choose to eat whole fruits, 2 to 3 pieces a day.

Soft Drinks

These cannot be news for you! We all know that sodas and soft drinks contain huge amounts of sugar, but more important than talking about weight loss, is adopting a healthy diet, so we must extend this article and talk about more than calories and sugar.
In addition to sugar, soft drinks contain components that damage every organ in our body, not dismissing the fact that they have zero nutritional value or quality. Light sodas, for example, may have zero calories, but they’re very appealing from a nutritional point of view.

Pastry

Are you used to take you breakfast elsewhere? Change the pastries (which, in most cases, contain high amounts of sugars and flours that are harmful to our health) and choose to have the first meal of the day at home – You can be aware of what you’re really consuming, and at the same time, you save some money.

Fried Foods

Start with small changes. Switching fried food to grilled or whole-processed foods can be a good long-term investment for your health as well as for your weight.

Fast food consists of foods rich in simple carbohydrates, salt, fat and artificial preservatives added to foods. Fast food is usually very caloric - sandwiches, burguers, pizza, chips, among others. Besides the high calorie content that favours weight gain, fast food has other effects on our body, such as fatigue, high cholesterol or bloating. 

Eliminate food from our diet, is not the ultimate solution for weight loss. If the calories (energy) we spend are higher than the calories we consume (for example, we spend 2000 calories and we consume 1500), we’ll easily lose weight. The inverse situation also happens - if the calories we spend are lower than the calories we eat, we’ll gain weight. Regardless of the calorie content of food, if we consume less calories than the ones we spend, we’ll not get fat.

However, … Is the number on of the scale the most important thing? Is being caloric deficit and not looking at the food we eat is valuable just because we want to lose weight? Not only weight is a determinant of our health and that is what you should focus on. What we eat, our nutrients intake, also matter. Not only should we look at calories, but we should not overlook them when the goal is weight loss. The most nutritionally interesting foods, such as vegetables or fruit, are low-calorie and high-volume. These will leave us more satiated, because we’ll eat a larger meal with low calories. Be reasonable and do things in a balanced way: control you fats intake when cooking, drink more water, don’t put exercise aside, choose foods there are as natural as possible and learn to read the labels of what you eat!

Be conscious when consuming, and don’t follow a super restrictive plan. Invest on your dietary re-education and on a more sustainable long-term diet - learn how to eat delicious and healthy with In & Out Cooking! 

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