1. Sugary foods
It seems right to start this list of foods to avoid if you’re trying to lose weight, with sweetened cakes, biscuits and sweets. These kinds of foods taste wonderful – but they’re packed with sugar and sugary syrups such as corn syrup, that all happen to be extremely calorific.
Weight loss is difficult and complicated, but it can be simplified into an equation for the purposes of this article – if we consume fewer calories than we burn each day, we’ll lose weight. If we consume more calories than we’re burning off, we’ll store them as fat, and we’ll gain weight.
Sugar syrups that are commonly used in sweet foods contain a high level of calories from both the added sugars and the fats used to make them taste irresistible. These kinds of foods are therefore high in these so-called empty calories and are low in beneficial nutrients such as protein, vitamins and minerals.
Of course, cakes and biscuits can still be consumed, we’re not completely oblivious to the fact that they make great treats. But they’re best kept for exactly that – the occasional treat. If you have a sugar craving, trying sucking slowly on one or two squares of dark chocolate.
