Rumor
No 1 - By not eating after a certain time of the night, you'll
lose weight.
THE
TRUTH: By not
eating after a certain time, there is a chance that you might
lose some weight. But it's not the time cut off that will rid
you of the weight. Calories count. And whether you eat them at
9AM or 9PM, a calorie i still a calorie. However, if you
give yourself fewer chewing hours, you'll likely take in fewer
calories and have more active hours to burn them off. This is
especially helpful for late-night snack addicts.
A lot of people eat GREAT during the day, then pig out on chips,
ice-cream, brownies, etc at 9 or 10PM. Eeeks! If this sounds
familiar, a cut off time for eating might be helpful to you.
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Rumour
No
2 - As
long as something is fat free or low in carbs, you can eat as
much of it as you want.
THE
TRUTH: No,
no, NO! We know tons of people (literally, TONS) who have gained
weight by chowing down of everything
with a low fat or low carb level - because they simply ate too
much.
When it comes to weight loss, calories count. (Do we sound like
a broken record yet?).
Many low fat and low carb products are chock-full of
calories. You MUST watch your portions are reda labels
carefully.
Seeing the word "Fat Free" or "Low Carb" is
no excuse to devour an entire bag of pretzels or chew a whole
pan of bacon.
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Rumour
No 3 - Negative Calorie foods make you lose weight.
THE
TRUTH: Negative calorie foods are foods that
supposedly contain
fewer calories that the amount your body would burn to digest
them.
Apples, Celery, Carrots, asparagus, brocolli, and bluberries are
just a few of these so-called negative calorie foods.
So is the rumor true? Should you be filling your shopping cart
with apples and asparagus?
Well, there is no conslusive proof that negative calorie foods
make you lose weight. Still, you can be certain that these
"negative calorie" foods won't hurt your diet. All of
them are nutritious, low fat ad low cal.
So why not add some of these health-protecting foods into your
meal plan? If it turns out that these negative calorie foods do
aid in weight loss, that would just be icing in the cake (which,
unfortunately, is NOT a negative calorie food) |
Rumour
No 4 - Margarine is better for you than real butter.
THE
TRUTH: This
myth is absolutely false. Most margarine has just as much
fat as just as many calories as regular butter. And margarine
also packs in oodles of heart-clogging trans fats.
While butter, with all its saturated fat, is far from good for
you, margarine, with all it's trans fats, is even worse.
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