17 Sep 2013
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Take a walk through the local natural foods market and you'll see nearly every form of junk food that you'd find at the supermarket – only with things like 'gluten free', 'organic' and 'zero trans fats' on the packages...
Those are all great - being gluten free, organic and trans fats free. Fresh, organic veggies, fruits and meats could all boast the same. But when those words are stamped on a package of cookies, chips or the like, then eating them is going to seriously slow your fitness results.
Here are the top 'healthy' processed foods that you're eating that are killing your results and keeping you from attaining your goal weight:
1) Healthy Cereal
There are gluten free cereals, cereals with no corn syrup, cereals with heart healthy grains, cereals with whole grains and even cereals with added vitamins.
Those all sound healthy, right? Well, sure those cereals are technically not as harmful as the brightly colored cereals from the supermarket, but as far as your fat loss results are concerned, the two are really about the same.
2) Healthy Packaged Snacks
Popcorn, and other crunchy, packaged 'health' food snacks are filled with carbohydrates and calories.
Two things that you should be cutting back on when working towards a fitness goal.
These snack items are habit forming, so you may tell yourself that it's just a once-in-awhile treat, but soon it becomes a daily occurrence.
3) Healthy Energy Bars
The energy bar aisle at the health food store is a colorful, wonderland of beautifully packaged, seemingly healthy snacks. The bars contain nuts, fruits, protein and even goji berries. What's not to love?
All that sugar, for starters. Manufacturers are clever enough to call sugar 'evaporated cane juice' or 'natural cane sugar' or even 'rice syrup' but that sugar reacts in your body just the same as any other sugar. It encourages fat storage.
Never take a packaged food item based on the claims and benefits printed on the labels. When you're looking to transform your body, you must guard what goes into your mouth. Packaged foods, even those from the health store, are going to derail your results if you're not careful.
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