Summer Diet Disasters: Get These Out Of Sight Immediately

Summer Diet Disasters: Get These Out Of Sight Immediately

As you move through your diet this summer, it’s going to be incredibly important that you take into account which foods could do your diet harm, only causing fat gain to come on at record speed.

While many people know the obvious ‘weight loss losers’ when it comes to their food choices – high fat snack foods like chips and chocolate, fast foods, and baked goods, there are many other foods that often sneak right by simply because you aren’t aware they are so devastating for your diet plan.

If you hope to see optimal success, it’s a must that you pinpoint these and remove them from your day.

Let’s have a quick peak at some of the top diet disasters that you must know about.

Commercial Burgers

The very first food that you will want to think twice about adding to your diet plan is commercial burgers.  While you may think that these are a fast source of protein, think again. If you stop and take a look at the actual fat and protein content of these burgers, you’ll come to find that they’re often more fat than they are protein. 

If they have 60% fat content and 40% protein content, it doesn’t take much to realize that these are just not going to be ideal for your diet plan.

Prepare your own instead using extra lean ground beef or even better, lean ground turkey.

Pasta Or Potato Salads

The second food that you should avoid on your diet plan is pasta or potato salad.  While potatoes themselves can be an okay option for those seeking fat loss results, the problem with these is that they’re preparing with very high calorie dressings that includes mayonnaise.

Instead, prepare your own pasta salad using whole wheat pasta, sliced veggies, and an olive oil based dressing. It’ll be a totally different ‘feel’ compared to the other varieties of pasta salad, but be a far healthier one.

Trail Mix

With many people out and about throughout the day, snacking tends to increase.  You want something that’s easy to take with you on the road or wherever you may be so turning to trail mix is often what you’re doing.

While there are definitely healthy components in trail mix, the problem with it is that it is higher in calories and often contains simple carbs in the mixture.  If it has pretzels, cheerios, or other non whole-wheat foods in it, it’s one variety that you can do without.

Prepare your own trail mix instead using nuts, shredded wheat squares, as well as dried fruit.  This will be a far better and lower calorie option.

Fat Free Ice Cream Or Frozen Yogurt

Moving along, fat free ice cream or frozen yogurt is the next food that you’ll definitely want to banish from your summer diet.  Many people see these and think they will be a good choice because they are lower in saturated fat.

But not so quick.  When the fat is removed, sugar is often added, making them just as detrimental to your diet plan.

Instead, seek out some of the low-calorie fruit pops out there that contain just 40 calories or so per pop.  While they won’t be the healthiest option you could choose (real fruit is still going to be far better), at that low calorie value, they aren’t’ going to do much harm.

So stay on the lookout for these foods this summer. If you see them creeping into your meal plans, make sure that you quickly give them the boot.