Foods That Sabotage Weight
Loss
Hunger is the enemy of weight loss.
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Foods That Sabotage Weight Loss |
All of your goals can be easily forgotten when faced with overwhelming hunger.
Successful weight loss does not just require you to ignore the desire to eat,
it requires you to do things to reduce your hunger in the first place. One of
the best ways to put a stranglehold on hunger, as silly as it may sound, is to
avoid foods that make you hungrier.
There are many foods that you can
eat and eat, without satisfying your cravings. Most of them are junk foods that
you shouldn’t be eating on a diet anyway. These foods are quite addictive. You
keep eating, trying to fill the void in your stomach, but no matter what you do
it the void can’t be filled. Here are some secrets to avoiding that trap.
The Main Culprit – Foods
Filled with MSG
Everyone has heard of MSG, the “food
enhancing” additive found in so many of our food products. But you may not be
aware that MSG increases hunger astronomically. Here’s why. MSG acts as a
flavor-enhancer in foods that would otherwise not taste good at all. It’s used
in low-fat and low-calorie foods to make them more palatable – making up for
lost flavor. This means that when you eat a food that contains MSG, your body
is tricked into believing that you ate something more substantial than you did.
When the body realizes there wasn’t “enough” in what you ate, it naturally
wants more – and you’re hungry again.
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As an example, take what happens
when you eat Ramen noodles. You’ll eat the noodles covered in the MSG-soaked
contents of the flavor packet, and your body will believe it’s just had a
solid, nutritional meal. However, as the meal digests, the body realizes it’s
been fooled. It’s not “real” pasta – it’s a relatively small amount of noodles
with sodium-drenched flavoring. Now that the body realizes that it hasn’t had
enough to eat, it demands real nutrition, and your stomach is growling again
within an hour. So not only have you eaten largely empty calories, you haven’t
even satiated your hunger.
Many foods are packed with MSG and
give the body false messages about their nutritional value, so make sure to
read ingredients lists. Armed with this knowledge, you can avoid the MSG trap
of eating food that makes you even hungrier.
Other Things that Stimulate
Hunger
Chewing Gum – Chewing gum, like MSG,
tricks the body into thinking that food is being digested. It causes the mouth
to produce saliva, which trickles down the throat and tells the stomach to
expect food to come down the hatch. When nothing comes down, the stomach growls
for the meal is expected, and you are hungrier than before.
Diet Soda – Diet soda has artificial
sweeteners, in many ways the “liquid equivalent” to MSG. These fake sweeteners
trigger the appetite like real sugars do, but don’t squelch the urges as real
sugar would.
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High
Fructose Corn Syrup – When talking about food as an addiction, high fructose
corn syrup can simply not be ignored. Why such a fuss about this additive? When
eaten, high fructose corn syrup slows down the secretion of the hormone
“leptin.” And since leptin is secreted to tell the body that it’s full – when
leptin isn’t secreted, you don’t realize that you’re full, and you just keep
eating – making weight loss just that much more difficult.
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