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 By: Rachel D. Young
 Undercover Calories: These Secrets May Be The Key Reason You Can't Lose Weight!
Have you tried repeatedly to lose those last 10 vanity pounds with no success? Stuck in a rut even though you're watching what you eat and working out like a fiend?
  Click To Enlarge. Have You Tried Repeatedly To Lose Those Last 10 Vanity Pounds With No Success? The secret to all your troubles may be 'hidden' in the foods you're eating! Serving size, scientifically-named ingredients, and ambiguous labeling terms like "other carbohydrates" can lead to an increased intake in calories, fat, and carbs that may be unintentional!
The problem is that, while the manufacturers are prominently displaying the serving size on the package, we as consumers often overlook this very important number!
Try six! That's one slice of pizza per person. And of course, no one is gonna eat just one slice of pizza, right? One slice of Digiorno's Supreme pizza is 370 calories - each. Six grams of saturated fat - each. One thousand milligrams of water-retaining sodium - each.
Just in case you haven't lost your lunch thinking about that, here's a little something extra: Digiorno's uses sodium nitrate in their pizza. Not a big deal? Never heard of it? Let me shed some light for ya: "Sodium nitrate is used as an ingredient in fertilizers, pyrotechnics, as a food preservative, and as a solid rocket propellant, as well as in glass and pottery enamels; the compound has been mined extensively for those purposes." Source: Wikipedia Nothing like rocket propellant to make you wanna reach for that extra slice!
Upon closer inspection, you might wanna rethink what you use to hydrate yourself if calories and sugar are a concern for you! Just because the drink comes in a bottle, most folks assume that one bottle will be enough for one person. The serving size should be one, right?
 Click To Enlarge. The Serving Size Should Be One, Right?
And if you're substituting Vitamin Water for the 8-10 eight ounce glasses of water you should be drinking every day, that's an additional 1250 calories a day and 325 carbohydrates from sugar you're ingesting every day!
Ask your kids! Most parents like to see their children happy. They take them places like McArches or give 'em hotdogs and chips at lunch without really looking at what's in their kids food.
How much? Let's see: Fixing lunch for the kiddos at home?
This writer's weakness is almonds. They're on my kitchen counter along with the other healthy snacks.
Mindless nibbling can throw your daily caloric intake out the window if you aren't careful. Are you gonna gain 20 pounds from nibbling on French fries? Not overnight, to be sure. But if you're training for a competition or trying to lose those last 10 pounds, it can certainly make it difficult!
Ever wonder what's in that Yoplait Strawberry Fat-Free Yogurt you're eating? Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Low Fat Milk, Sugar, Strawberries, Modified Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Nonfat Milk, Kosher Gelatin, Citric Acid, Tricalcium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Pectin, Colored with Carmine, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3. See that 2nd ingredient? Table sugar. And you realize that ingredients are labeled according to how much of the product is made up of that particular ingredient, right? That means 17% of this product is sugar. Nice. The High Fructose Corn Syrup is your worst enemy, though. Two studies cited by USA Today showed that mercury, which is a toxin that can have debilitating effects on the nervous system, has been found in almost half of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup.
Often times companies will display "fat free" in exchange for a higher concentration of sugar in their products. We as consumers choose these products, believing them to be better for us when in reality, we're exchanging fat for simple carbohydrates more often than not.
In order to mask the completely unappealing taste of raw whole oats, manufacturers load the ingredient list with sugar and fat to make it more appealing to the taste buds. But in return, you add unnecessary carbs and fat to the equation.
Source: Wikipedia The word gorp, an alternate name for trail mix, may stand for "good old raisins and peanuts", "granola, oats, raisins, and peanuts", or "gobs of raw protein". These are probably backronyms or folk etymology. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily". Source: Wikipedia Regardless of its meaning, trail mix is intended for those out-of-door types: hikers, trail runners, and other such adventurers as an energy source from carbohydrates in order to stay on the trail, get to the peak, or just enjoy a snack along the way.
 Click To Enlarge. Trail Mix Is Intended For Trail Runners And Other Such Adveturers As An Energy Source.
Really take the time to get to know your nutrition label and food ingredients! Watching the portion size on each box, bag, or bottle you purchase can go a long way to accurately tracking your daily caloric intake (and stretches the ol' grocery bill too when you know that one pizza is suppose to last you 6 servings)!
Watch what you put in your mouth - nibbling adds calories. If you must nibble, ensure that you've got healthier portions to nibble on. Sweet potato fries, organic protein bars, and other such snacks can replace high fat, high calorie nibbles and keep your figure (both the one around your waistline and the one in your food journal) accurate! Don't take "healthy snacks" at face value. Find out what's really in your food and make sure that perception isn't the only reason you think its healthy. Taking the time to learn what you're putting in your mouth can go a long way to getting you the body you're striving for! Recommend this article to a friend by e-mail here!
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