5 Foods To Stay Away If You Want To Lose Weight Fast

Your special day is coming up. Maybe it is a date, a reunion or a job interview, and you want to drop a few pounds. Losing weight is a balance between cutting calories, burning calories, and exercise.

There are foods out there that sabotage the first two goals. And if you want to lose weight quickly, we’ve complied a list of the 12 worst food that you must stay away from if you want to lose weight fast.

Losing all that weight is a healthy goal and starting by cutting out these twelve foods will help you be healthier in the long run.

1. Quit the Sugar

If you want to lose weight, cut out sugar. That mean soft drinks, fruit juices, cookies, pastries, candy bars. An average soft drink has 8 teaspoons of sugar, roughly 72 calories. To burn off one 8-ounce soft drink, you need to take 1440 steps (half a mile).

Since most Americans don’t walk very far, chances are that one soft drink will get deposited on your hips and belly.

Skip the sugary snacks for quick weight loss!

2. Say No to Processed Food

Sugar hides in processed food. You might be going for that healthy salad, but your salad dressing is probably packed with sugar. So is your ketchup, barbeque sauce, and even mustard.

Open your cabinets and randomly pick out a favorite. The odds are there is a lot of sugar in it but it may be listed under one of sugar’s many names.

Processed foods also have a lot of salt, but we’ll talk about salt later. You’ll be shocked!

3. Skip the Chips

Anything fried, no matter what oil you use, is hard on the waist line. If you are trying to lose weight fast, run from chips and French fries. And fried chicken. And tater tots. And bacon.

With a lot of these foods, it is easy to overeat after all, who can stop at just one chip? You do need some oils, like omega-3. Get those from eating fish like salmon. Just don’t fry it first!

4. Give Up the Booze

You know why guys (and gals) who drink a lot of beer tend to sport a beer belly? Hint – it is the beer. There are a lot of empty calories in beer. Most beers average between 60 and 100 calories per serving.

To go back to our step analogy, your going to have to walk about half a mile a beer. If you are trying to lose weight fast, cut out the beer and go easy on other alcohols.

5. Salt and Bloating

Salt is important to keep your body function properly. The issue is getting too much salt. When you eat processed food, fries and chips, and other high salt food, your body hangs onto water, so it can dilute the amount of salt in your body and maintain proper salt levels.

To lose weight quickly, cut back on salt. You will shed any water weight. Most Americans get plenty of salt in their diet so cutting back won’t hurt you.