![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll top frozen yogurt with chocolate and think of it as a better alternative to ice cream, or top a salad with heavy ranch dressing. Sometimes we think of foods as healthy, even if they come with additional ingredients that aren’t as healthy, merely because the main ingredients are good for us. ![]() While delicious, this was a case of “healthy by association.” The kale didn’t cancel out the cheese. But I noticed the salad was densely packed with chunks of feta cheese. Initially, I thought of it as a worthy investment in a protein-rich healthy light lunch option. The other day I found myself sitting down to a kale and quinoa prepared gourmet salad (my wallet wasn’t happy about this choice). There are other foods that can have simply been marketed as “healthy,” but are actually packed with sugar and/or saturated fats. While certain foods are quite healthy in moderation, they can also be quite high in calorie per portion. Or turning to popular meal delivery kits where all of the food comes pre-packaged with calorie counts and eliminates all of the hassle involved.īut if you’re eating handfuls of nuts, salads drenched in olive oil, or trying out diets that allow unlimited fruits and vegetables (which aren’t counted towards daily calorie intakes), these healthy foods and plans can effect how you’re calculating your weight loss goal metrics, and ultimately hinder and progress. This often lends itself to folks giving up on diet plans and feelings of discouragement and increased confusion. And then when we step on the scale we often feel confused as to why we aren’t losing weight when following a plan or eating healthy, especially if we’re working out on a regular schedule on top of this. This may come in the form of a single food, a part of a specific diet plan, or general misconceptions we all have about food. ![]() Sometimes when we embark on new diet plans we read a lot of information or hear about new health plans from friends or family and all of the foods we “should be eating.”īut a lot of foods we consider to be quite healthy, and have been marketed as healthy choices, may be far from low calorie options. ![]()
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