5 “Healthy” Foods That Sabotage Weight Loss

Making bad food choices will not help with anyone’s diet. Just a note, it’s not all about the calories, if it were you could drink light beer and eat jerky until you reached 1200 each day. We’re just going to jump right in with this, okay?

1. Going gluten-free. Crackers, cookies, pasta, flour, hot dog buns, and more. We wouldn’t be surprised if there’s soda labeled gluten-free soon. We want to stress that IN NO WAY do the words gluten-free equal healthy, more nutritious, or less “fattening.” Having a triple cheeseburger but opting for the gluten-free bun makes zero difference. For those of you with Celiac disease or a proven gluten intolerance – of course you should be going out of your way to find gluten-free items, however in the general population, it is completely unnecessary. You may have been buying products that are twice as expensive and offer you no additional nutritional benefits. A handful of gluten-free crackers made with 35 ingredients (most of which you can’t pronounce) are not good for you. A gluten-free chocolate chip cookie is no better for you than a regular old Chips-Ahoy.

2. Fat-free cheese. It’s Tuesday and you’re making tacos. You opt for the fat-free shredded Mexican cheese because you’re on a diet. Good choice, right? Wrong. You’re more likely to use twice as much of the flavorless fat-free cheese as you do the regular trying to achieve the same flavor or texture, and you’re still not satisfied. Have you read the ingredients in those types of cheeses? Depending on the brand, you can find things like potato starch, “processed cheese food” whatever that is, inulin, cellulose powder (which is wood pulp, aka sawdust), artificial colors, yeast, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, plastic… do I need to go on? You know what I want in my cheese? Cheese. Cultured milk, enzymes (which turn the milk into cheese) and maybe some spices. If you read an ingredient and your brain doesn’t register it as food, neither will your body.

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