5 foods people have to avoid to lose weight

Here are the top five foods people have to avoid to lose weight

1. DITCH Coconut oil

Believe it or not, coconut oil is well and truly out. Clever marketing has led us to believe for years that this stuff is good for us, but the innocuous-seemingly coconut oil is doing way more harm than good. With a whooping 120 calories per tablespoon, and 12 grams of saturated fat, not only does it do some serious damage to our waistlines but is also detrimental to our cholesterol levels and blocks our arteries.

Flick the trendy white stuff for olive oil — it’s what the Mediterraneans have been using for centuries and its regular consumption has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease.

2. DITCH White bread

Or white death, as it’s also referred to, adds absolutely nothing nutrition wise and everything kilogram wise. This product is so refined that by the times it hits your mouth, you are doing more harm than good when you chow it down.

PICK wholegrain

Instead of the Wonder White, choose its cousin, wholegrain bread. Whole grains are important sources of fibre — which reduce our risk of heart disease and cancer and contain loads of nutrients. The inclusion of daily consumption of whole grains also helps us lose weight and crucially, maintain that lighter weight.

3. DITCH Cheese

Bad news — even a hard cheese like a cheddar is 70% fat and contains a huge 400 calories per 100 grams — a meagre three slices. Like its trendy friend coconut oil, cheese’s consumption is sure to see your weight increase and will also block your arteries.

With the cheese intake way down to once per week, as explained in Interval Weight Loss, the focus of dairy foods should be on regular consumption of skim or low fat milk and yoghurt. Almost as good as a slice of brie #iwish

4. DITCH Alcohol

All booze contains 29 kilojoules per gram of energy — meaning it is nearly double the energy content of the commonly avoided carbohydrates, or protein-based foods. There are the much-touted heart health benefits from very small amounts of booze — being no more than two standard drinks per day, or about 1 glass of self-pour — but unless you regularly consume alcohol the extra calories outweigh the potential benefits of taking up drinking.

Zero calories and free from the tap, water is there to optimise how your body works.

5. DITCH Dried Fruit

Snacking regularly on fresh fruit is a great option for sustainable weight loss. Dried fruit, not so much! Dried fruit, on average, contains five times the amount of calories as fresh fruit because it has all of the water content stripped out, it making it extremely energy dense.