49 foods to avoid if trying to get back on track

Hi Botts 

Just wanted to stop by and say stay strong through the holidays!  I found this article via everyday health and wanted to share with you. Ugh, I see several things I have been endulging with the holidays.  I think I am going to print this and put it on the fridge.

The NEEDNT, or non-essential, energy dense, nutritionally deficient, list:

1.Alcoholic drinks
2.Biscuits
3.Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (used as a spread or in baking/cooking etc.)
4.Cakes
5.Chocolate
6.Coconut cream
7.Condensed milk
8.Cordial
9.Corn chips
10.Cream (including creme fraiche)
11.Crisps (including vegetable crisps)
12.Desserts/puddings
13.Doughnuts
14.Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc.
15.Energy drinks
16.Flavoured milk/milkshakes
17.Fruit tinned in syrup
18.Fried food
19.Frozen yoghurt
20.Fruit juice (except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice)
21.Glucose
22.High fat crackers
23.Honey
24.Hot chips
25.Ice cream
26.Jam
27.Marmalade
28.Mayonnaise
29.Muesli bars
30 Muffins
31.Nuts roasted in fat or oil
32.Pastries
33.Pies
34.Popcorn with butter or oil
35.Quiches
36.Reduced cream
37.Regular luncheon sausage
38.Regular powdered drinks
39.Regular salami
40.Regular sausages
41.Regular soft drinks
42.Fruit rollups
43.Sour cream
44.Sugar (added to anything including drinks, baking, cooking etc.)
45.Sweets/lollies
46.Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup
47.Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with more than 15g sugar per 100g cereal
48.Whole milk
49.Yoghurt type products with more than 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt

Stay Strong!!!!

Take care,

Kathy

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Kathy, For normal people - that may be true, but for some of us - some of the items will helps us stay on track and do very good.

That includes: Full fat dairy, chocolate (moderate - very dark chocolate may be a great treat - and satisfy the need for real chocolate); IMO - whole milk is better than skim milk - but use 1/2 of the normal dosage, and so on...

I love my dairy!

Hala, why is whole milk better than skim? Just wondering because I love whole milk but I don't drink it. I get so confused with the milk topic because I read in different places that if you are trying to lose weight you shouldn't use dairy products such as milk and yogurt. What's your opinion on this?

Whole milk has the fat and all the elements. Skim milk has calories mostly from sugar - 12 gr (lactose) and proteins 8gr.

The proteins also can turn into sugar - while fat doe snot, so instead of 8 oz of skim milk - drink 4 oz of whole milk. The fat will keep you full longer. Best - IMO - is to skip milk all together. Milk is a perfect food to gain weight. That's why it is given to small children and animals - so they get fat and grow big faster.

Fat free food - cows eat that.  Proteins and fat - skip carbs and sugar.  Too many protein s- will turn into sugars. Yu add soem fat to proteins - the body will use the fat for energy - and repair the muscles with proteins.

yogurt - I only use full fat greek yogurt when I try to lose weight.

Good list.    Tri