Are Diet Foods Making You Fat?
You know, there have been stories about how diet foods, and especially sugar substitutes may actually be making people fat without them knowing it. You see, “diet foods” as they are termed, which are foods that are reduced fat, reduced sugar and essentially reduced in calories on purpose, many times contain substitute ingredients that can actually do more harm than good when it comes to losing weight or even maintaining a healthy weight without spiralling out of control and into obesity as many Americans have done today.
Not only that, it is said that eating diet foods causes a sort of backwards thought process in those that do it. I’ve even experienced this before, when the whole low fat craze was all the rage in weight loss and everyone thought that as long as everything you ate was fat free, you were golden and you wouldn’t gain a pound and this would supplement your health and fitness fat loss regimen with a good tasting snack that was guilt free.
They forgot to mention that since there was no flavor from the fat being removed, they substituted it with extra sugar and extra salt. Or remember that fat substitute which ended up being a digestive system nightmare, Olean? It caused virtual nonstop bathroom sessions in most who ate it, especially those that over-ate it thinking it had no fat, so why not?
People do tend to think they can eat more of a product that is labeled low fat or low calorie, and this is exactly the opposite of what these foods are supposed to be about. Sure, the manufacturers don’t mind if you keep going back for another hand full of those reduced fat cookies or crackers or some sort of reduced sugar candy, but in effect you are sabotaging your weight loss by STILL overloading your body on food.
Whether you overload it on low quality reduced calorie products or high fat high calorie foods, an overload is an overload, and your body will respond by storing the extra calories and substances ingested to fat. So you see, it’s almost better to just choose foods that are naturally lower in fat and calories and sugar.
I’m definitely not opposed to going lowfat on things like cheese, that should be used as condiments and not as a mainstay, but if everything in your pantry is low calorie, you do have to watch your portions still
