The food industry has no interest in how you look

Any trick they can find that will get you to buy their product, you can rest assure they will use it. That includes adding ingredients to once thought healthy foods to make them more desirable to your taste buds. This also allows them to lower the price of foods giving them the perceived affordability factor. In their mind there are two scenarios they are expecting to happen: you will be in a rush to grab the cheapest food available and not look at the nutrition label; or you will look at the nutrition label and not know what all the ingredients are (or be able to pronounce them) and will become frustrated and buy what looks like is healthy.

Deciphering a nutrition label can be a science in itself. However, there are three ingredients which you want to watch out for and avoid as much as possible. These foods are lethal to your fat loss goals and I call them the anti-fat loss foods.

Anti-Fat loss food #1: Hydrogenated Oils

These oils are saturated fats, plain and simple. You have heard of saturated fats I'm sure. They are responsible for obesity, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, and the list goes on and on. There is nothing good about this food and should be avoided at all costs. Hydrogenated Oils can be found everywhere too, not just in obvious areas; breads, condiments, wraps, cereals, and peanut butter are some of the lesser thought of sources. They can also be found in potato chips, desserts, and candy.

Anti-Fat loss food #2: High Fructose Corn Syrup

High Fructose Corn Syrup is a sugar substitute that registers as zero calories. Sounds good doesn't it? It's not. High Fructose Corn Syrup actually shuts off the satisfaction switch your body usually gets when consuming food, so you never have that full feeling with foods that contain this evil ingredient. So while you may think you are eating less, your body will begin to crave more and more food, thus increasing your chances of eating unsupportively.

Unfortunately High Fructose Corn Syrup is found everywhere. Some of the obvious sources include: candy, ice cream, cereals, soda, and fruit juices. But it is also found in less obvious sources such as: low fat dressings, low fat options of most foods, fat free options of most foods, breads, condiments, diet sodas, and many low calorie alternative foods.

Anti-Fat loss food #3: Enriched flour

Enriched flour is a fancy word for flour that has been stripped of its nutrients for processing then nutrients were infused back in. Enriched flour is masked sugar when it comes to what it will do in your body. It takes nothing to digest this food and if it isn't used instantly as energy, your body will store it as fat. You can find this food in pastas, cereals, breads, crackers/chips, cookies, and most other foods that required dough to make.

Bonus Anti-Fat loss food: anything ending in ose

Sucrose, fructose, galactose, glucose. These are all fancy words for sugar. Added sugar can be considered instant fat when it enters your body. Fruit juices, cereals, desserts, breads, canned fruit, salad dressings, and packaged deli meat are a few sources of this processed sugar.

Once you start to look for these foods in the ingredients list, they will start to pop out of the list and signal an alarm in your head to step away from that food. It can be quite eye opening and a bit frustrating as you will discover actually how many foods have these ingredients. But by eliminating one food per week that contains just one of these ingredients, will yield tremendous results in your energy levels and in your physical appearance. If it will do that, a few extra minutes spent making sure your food choice is supportive is definitely worth it.