You don’t have to starve for six weeks. Just make an effort to sidestep common diet saboteurs, which may be costing you 500 calories a day. Here’s what to skip.
1. Alcohol. It adds empty calories and stimulates your appetite.
2. Baked goods such as cookies, doughnuts, cakes, muffins. In packaged or restaurant portions, these are usually huge.
3. Salty snack foods. Potato chips, pork rinds, and cheese curls offer zero nutrients.
4. Premium ice cream. Everyone’s favourite-except one serving can have about a third of your daily fat.
5. Juices, smoothies. Many bottled fruit and mixed fruit juices are little more than sugary water – with 200 calories plus. Smoothies can easily have double that.
6. Full fat dairy products. Drink a glass of whole milk, and you’re swallowing a hamburger’s worth of fat. Switch to skim, low fat, or low fat soy varieties.
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