This is the food that fuels dieting. It looks (kind of) normal but works against satiety and hunger-calming.
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A quick note: I'm sorry for missing last week. Work and life subsumed me, but I'm back at it and will make up for lost time.
Highly processed foods are...
Pasta sauces filled with sugar, chicken stock with sugar, sweetened hummus (🤢), whole grain bread with sugar and oils, store-bought cookies, and low-fat yogurts with all the sugar of a candy bar are great examples of food with a high degree of processing.
It resembles food you might make at home but often includes sugar, vastly more than if you sweeten it yourself, and the fiber that's initially present in whole ingredients is all but gone.
This is why you must read every label carefully if you continue eating pre-made food and want a healthy weight. Now you know why I COOK!
There is no way around this. Even small amounts of sugar stimulate your hunger, causing you to fight with yourself all day long (I'll be so good!). A lifetime healthy weight is not possible when your food conflicts with your goals. It's that simple.
Knowing how to cook is what alerted me to these foods.
Having the most basic knowledge is a literal lifesaver.
It alerted me to the 'sugar is in the everything' issue. Once I started actually reading labels, it was game over for manufactured food in my life. It was like the veil was permanently lifted.
I could not unsee:
- 76% of ANY food put into a package has added sugar.
- That sugar works in your gut to stimulate your hunger.
- They know that, and that's why it's there.
Highly processed foods are defined by (me) as:
- A savory food product with unnecessary added sugar.
- A dessert item with an overabundance of sugar.
- Food from plants with very little to no fiber.
- Or, multiple processes were needed to make this item (a thorough label reading is needed for this one).
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Next week, we'll discuss moderately processed foods. These are part of healthy weight eating but require a strategy to avoid problems.
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