While it’s important to eat foods that fight belly or body fat like avocados, whole grain breads, vegetables and fruits, it’s also important to avoid the foods that first created your expanding stomach in the first place. Limit or avoid the following foods from your diet to shrink your belly fat and get your figure back.
Fried food
You might be thinking, “Yea, we know fried food is bad for us. It’s common sense, duh.” Be honest, aren’t you still eating them?
So why are we still eating them or making them part of our food intake?
- Fried food tastes great!
Trust us, we know that fried food is delicious – we can polish off a plate of french fries in minutes. Just having a plate of fried food in front of us can be irresistible – that’s why it’s best to avoid even looking at fried food.
- It’s easy, it’s filling, and it’s convenient and inexpensive.
The trend:
Fried food makes up a significant part of many people’s diets
Every day about one quarter of the U.S. population eats fried food.
The rate of obesity among American children has doubled since the late 1970s.
Why are they bad for our weight loss plan?
Fried foods are saturated with empty calories and fat.
It can contain trans fats, which puts you at higher risk of heart disease. Restaurants like trans fats since it raises the flash point and lets them use the same oil over and over again. We recommend everything in moderation, but we have zero tolerance for trans fats. Avoid this completely. If you have fried food, make sure there are no trans fats in it!
It can make you obese. A study found that people who ate the most calories in fried food had a positive correlation with obesity. Fried food is loaded with calories and fat. The breading on fried food soaks up the grease. It’s kinda like drinking oil straight from the vat. Which you would never do.
How to avoid?
When confronted with fried food, we recommend reaching down and grabbing hold of your belly or your love handles. Feel that? Do you want that around your heart and in your arteries? Do you want to add more around your waist? We didn’t think so. Put the doughnut down. If you have nothing to grab around your middle, then you are in luck! Put the doughnut down so you stay that way.
Cut down on your fried food to cut down on calories and that heavy, greasy feeling. You’ll feel lighter for it.
- Avoid fried foods if you’re trying to lose belly or body fat; it’s bad for you!
- If you have to indulge, be mindful when you do and limit it to once every two weeks, then once a month. If fried food is your ultimate fantasy, cut it way back. It’s about reducing it to improve your batting average; you don’t have to be perfect. Once a month won’t kill you, and you’ll start feeling better after a while.
- If you are indulging, make it a luxury and go to a high-quality restaurant and ask if they use partially hydrogenated oils. No trans fats!
- Fry it yourself to keep strict control on quality. Follow the above directions.
Some examples of popular fried foods are French fries, fried chicken, fried seafood, potato chips, doughnuts and corn dogs.
