When it comes to a healthy diet ‘sweet’ may not mean the taste of success. How many of you have started on a what you thought was a healthy eating program where you have restricted your calories and fats but do not have the success you expected.

Many of the popular weight loss programs actually encourage you to eat plenty of sugar and this may be why they fail. I understand you may be wondering what I am talking about – of course you don’t eat sugar when you are on a weight loss program. Right!

Wrong, because many of the so called ‘diet foods’ contain plenty of sugar. Low fat foods are often laden with sugar to compensate for the reduced fat, and foods such as white pasta and bagels are going directly to the sweet department of your body to be available to use as fuel for your muscles.

Why is This Undesirable?

Reason # 1

If you are expending limited energy during the course of your day, this excess energy goes directly to your fat piggy bank to be used later when it is need. The problem is we keep saving this energy and just like a real piggy bank our fat piggy bank just keeps getting fuller. Not good.

Reason # 2

All this sweet taste, even if it is artificial such as in diet sodas, keeps you wanting more. The more sugar or simple carbs you eat the more you usually want. This state is commonly known as cravings and the more cravings for sweet you have the harder it will be for you to crack open that fatty bank and spend your fat stores.

Craving Busters

For 4 weeks aim to eliminate processed grains and simple starchy carbs from your diet. This includes cereals, apart from natural oatmeal, and all white starches – white potatoes, white rice, white flour, white bread, etc. Follow the DietDitch program and limit your fruit to include those on the tart side, granny smith apples, and grapefruit and reap the benefits.

Snack on pine nuts if you have a craving because they have been shown to keep the hungry wolf from the door. Cravings will soon be a thing of the past and your body will thank you for it.