How Diet Foods Can Make You Fat Too?

Generalizing about healthy food can snowball into a major disaster. Taking diet advice at face-value means you are playing a risky game of fat roulette. You have cut back on the chocolates, thrown out the biscuits, raided the nearest health food store, and had bran for breakfast, a salad for lunch and sushi for dinner- that is supposed to be making you lose the pounds right? But the menu you are hooked on to can be a fat landmine! Find out how straightforward diet oversights can disrupt low-calorie foods, doubling your fat intake and affecting your waistline.

A cereal saboteur, Granola seems harmless compared to eggs swimming in hollandaise sauce. But granola is no champion's breakfast. A cup of it contains about 560 calories and around 28 grams of fat- and all this before adding the milk. Though, undoubtedly nutritious and fibrous, it contains a high quantity of sugar and oil making it extremely high in fat.

Instead, try eating granola in smaller quantities and switch to low fat, sugar-free muesli or eat nuts.

Diet Drinks

That single sip of sugar-free versions of your favourite fizz drinks could be your waistline's worst enemy! It is prove that people who drink artificially sweetened beverages gain more weight than those who didn't perhaps because artificial sweeteners trigger appetite.

If you cannot get rid of the zero-calorie soda glued to your palm, then try reserving diet soda as an occasional teat and get your fizz in the form of sparkling mineral water.

Smoothies

If you are one of those who substitute breakfast for a smoothie, think again. You might be pushing your calorie limit and adding o
n hundreds of extra calories by supplementing your meals with sugary fruit drinks. While smoothies and juices count towards your daily intake of calories, a fresh piece of fruit is a much wiser choice as though smoothies are packed with nutrients, they are also packed with a surprising amount of sugar. So tick to that one cup of fresh fruits.

Vegetable Crisps

The rainbow hued chips are viewed by many people as the healthier substitute to their potato equivalents. Often, veggie chips are not much healthier as they contain corn flour or potato with a small amount of vegetable powder or puree mixed in mostly. In the processing of these chips, the essential nutrients such as Vitamin A and C are lost, so they don't offer much when it comes to nutrition.

Try switching to crisps that have an all vegetable list, stick to one helping or portion. The best way is to make your own vegetable chips at home.

Salad

Once believed to be the saving grace of dieters, Salads now seem to be a saboteur. Salads are generally offered as the healthy options but we seem to have forgotten what salads are all about- the greens. Though salads contain vegetables, fruits and other healthy ingredients, they are usually obscured under a layer of sugary and oily salad dressing - high in fat and calories.

The slimming alternatives include thinking vegetables while choosing a healthy salad, avoiding calories by drizzling light dressings on your salad or completely skipping the dressings.

source: siliconindia