Healthy Foods that can make you fat
Some smart eats, as they are called, are just junk food in disguise. Cut back on them and your waistline will thank you. Chips, gooey desserts, anything that starts with fried you know to fight off these caloric behemoths with a baseball bat. What's tricky is that some foods with famously healthy reputations are actually worse than the typical snack found in your local vending machine. Take a look at what follows and see if we can help you keep from hitting a higher number on your bathroom scale.
1. Sushi Rolls
The vegetables and seaweed wrap are for sure lo-cal, but a lot of the most popular rolls are way too heavy in cream cheese or mayo (due to the spicy sauce) and the seafood inside may be Tempura battered. That roll, containing those ingredients can easily reach 500-600 calories apiece. Also, soy sauce is loaded with sodium and while it won't make you gain weight it will cause you to retain water and your jeans will look and be tighter.
2. Dried Fruit
Some dried fruits have five to eight times more calories than fresh fruit since the dehydration process makes them denser. As an example, fresh grapes have 60 calories per cup while raisins have 460. Not to mention that some brands have been processed with sugar and the caloric content can reach stratospheric heights as a result.
3. Granola (my favorite)
It's loaded with healthy and good for you nuts but it's a shame that they add oil to make it crisp and high levels of sugar to make it taste better. Some bowls meet and exceed 500 calories per bowl. There are much better choices of cereal available in the marketplace that pack the same amount of nutrition with significantly less sugar and oil.
4. Bran Muffins
Another crap shoot here. They come in so many flavors like plain, apple, bananas, and while the fiber gives you that full feeling the sugar and butter it contains makes it nothing more than a round slice of cake containing as much as 20 grams of fat, 420 calories and 34 grams of sugar.
5. Half & Half
Even though you put just a couple of spoonfuls into your coffee cup 2-3 times a day it is enough to total 200 or more calories per day and contains approximately the same amount of fat as a big pat of butter.
6. Wraps
Let's take a very close look at this one as it is a major offender. If you unroll the tortilla you will find that it is 1 foot (12 inches) across and contains upwards of 300 calories. Now look at the surface area of this huge flour disc just begging to be coated with mayo or some type of high fat dressing. It is way bigger than two slices of bread and now you are going to stuff with more ingredients, other than lettuce, tomatoes, that contain more calories. Oh my!!!
7. Bottled Teas
Most popular brands of teas are sweetened with honey or sugar and contain two or more servings for a calorie count of 200 or more which is very similar to a bottle of regular soda.
8. Rice Cakes
These light snacks are fat free and low in calories but are lacking in fiber and protein which are the hunger curbing constituents one needs to feel full and satisfied after eating these. Eating two or three of these won't do much to curb your appetite and will leave you wanting something else even though they contain sugar and sodium which have added to your daily caloric intake.
9. Veggie Burgers
Eating these instaed of a 100% beef patty may save you a little fat and cholesterol but depending on the brad and what you put on it you could easily approach the caloric content of a 100% meat burger. The size of these burgers and the cheese that holds them together are hardly diet friendly often approaching 1000 calories. Add a bun, some mayo and you might as well have had a Wendy burger and called it a day.
10. Juice
Trying to reach your recommended daily fruit servings in liquid form is fraught with ills. A 16 ounce bottle of Orange or Apple juice has 55 grams of carbohydrates which is the equivalent of 5 slices of bread, most of which is sugar- 12 spoonfuls of it.
11. Diet Microwave Meals
These meals tend to be high in sodium since the producers can't use fat to carry the flavors well enough to have them taste decent. Eating these will cause you to retain water and cause the jean and t-shirt fitting problem we referred to earlier.
12. Salads
There is nothing better than a salad with naked veggies for your waistline. However, after you add cheese, candied nuts, croutons and a healthy topping of dressing you might as well have had
a big bowl of pasta since the caloric value of each will almost be equal. Even vinaigrettes, while not as high in calories as ranch dressings are almost as high cal.
13. Tofu (potential diet disaster)
Order this healthy item at a restuarant and what you will most likely get is a plate of sodium, calories, fat and possibly even sugar. Tofu as a stand alone dish is excellent but it is so bland that quite often it is deep fried to give it texture and flavor and served in a decadent and yummy sauce making it a diet disaster.
In order to eat well, healthy and keep from gaining an extraordinary amount of unwanted weight we need to teach ourselves to be ever watchful of how our foods are processed and what ingredients are used or contained in our favorite foods. Only then will we be able to make good decisions on our daily food and drink intake.
For a free 23 step habit changing report please contact: www.myhealthmanagement.com and request your free report by e-mail.
1. Sushi Rolls
The vegetables and seaweed wrap are for sure lo-cal, but a lot of the most popular rolls are way too heavy in cream cheese or mayo (due to the spicy sauce) and the seafood inside may be Tempura battered. That roll, containing those ingredients can easily reach 500-600 calories apiece. Also, soy sauce is loaded with sodium and while it won't make you gain weight it will cause you to retain water and your jeans will look and be tighter.
2. Dried Fruit
Some dried fruits have five to eight times more calories than fresh fruit since the dehydration process makes them denser. As an example, fresh grapes have 60 calories per cup while raisins have 460. Not to mention that some brands have been processed with sugar and the caloric content can reach stratospheric heights as a result.
3. Granola (my favorite)
It's loaded with healthy and good for you nuts but it's a shame that they add oil to make it crisp and high levels of sugar to make it taste better. Some bowls meet and exceed 500 calories per bowl. There are much better choices of cereal available in the marketplace that pack the same amount of nutrition with significantly less sugar and oil.
4. Bran Muffins
Another crap shoot here. They come in so many flavors like plain, apple, bananas, and while the fiber gives you that full feeling the sugar and butter it contains makes it nothing more than a round slice of cake containing as much as 20 grams of fat, 420 calories and 34 grams of sugar.
5. Half & Half
Even though you put just a couple of spoonfuls into your coffee cup 2-3 times a day it is enough to total 200 or more calories per day and contains approximately the same amount of fat as a big pat of butter.
6. Wraps
Let's take a very close look at this one as it is a major offender. If you unroll the tortilla you will find that it is 1 foot (12 inches) across and contains upwards of 300 calories. Now look at the surface area of this huge flour disc just begging to be coated with mayo or some type of high fat dressing. It is way bigger than two slices of bread and now you are going to stuff with more ingredients, other than lettuce, tomatoes, that contain more calories. Oh my!!!
7. Bottled Teas
Most popular brands of teas are sweetened with honey or sugar and contain two or more servings for a calorie count of 200 or more which is very similar to a bottle of regular soda.
8. Rice Cakes
These light snacks are fat free and low in calories but are lacking in fiber and protein which are the hunger curbing constituents one needs to feel full and satisfied after eating these. Eating two or three of these won't do much to curb your appetite and will leave you wanting something else even though they contain sugar and sodium which have added to your daily caloric intake.
9. Veggie Burgers
Eating these instaed of a 100% beef patty may save you a little fat and cholesterol but depending on the brad and what you put on it you could easily approach the caloric content of a 100% meat burger. The size of these burgers and the cheese that holds them together are hardly diet friendly often approaching 1000 calories. Add a bun, some mayo and you might as well have had a Wendy burger and called it a day.
10. Juice
Trying to reach your recommended daily fruit servings in liquid form is fraught with ills. A 16 ounce bottle of Orange or Apple juice has 55 grams of carbohydrates which is the equivalent of 5 slices of bread, most of which is sugar- 12 spoonfuls of it.
11. Diet Microwave Meals
These meals tend to be high in sodium since the producers can't use fat to carry the flavors well enough to have them taste decent. Eating these will cause you to retain water and cause the jean and t-shirt fitting problem we referred to earlier.
12. Salads
There is nothing better than a salad with naked veggies for your waistline. However, after you add cheese, candied nuts, croutons and a healthy topping of dressing you might as well have had
a big bowl of pasta since the caloric value of each will almost be equal. Even vinaigrettes, while not as high in calories as ranch dressings are almost as high cal.
13. Tofu (potential diet disaster)
Order this healthy item at a restuarant and what you will most likely get is a plate of sodium, calories, fat and possibly even sugar. Tofu as a stand alone dish is excellent but it is so bland that quite often it is deep fried to give it texture and flavor and served in a decadent and yummy sauce making it a diet disaster.
In order to eat well, healthy and keep from gaining an extraordinary amount of unwanted weight we need to teach ourselves to be ever watchful of how our foods are processed and what ingredients are used or contained in our favorite foods. Only then will we be able to make good decisions on our daily food and drink intake.
For a free 23 step habit changing report please contact: www.myhealthmanagement.com and request your free report by e-mail.
posted by Gene Carbonell at
1:12 PM
1 Comments:
Not all "diet" foods are as low-fat or healthy as they claim to be. People have to learn to read ingredients and o count calories as part of their move to make better food choices.
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