Fast Food Calories will Ruin Your Diet Plans and Exercise Program

If you let them, fast food calories will sneak up on you day after day and ruin your diet plans and exercise program. Fast food calories are the absolute worst for you. I'll give you 3 good reasons why.

It is so easy to forget about that sugary little mid-morning treat or that afternoon drink or two on the pub veranda (accompanied by a packet of something salty and rather moreish).

Fast food calories are the absolute worst for you. But why? I'll give you 3 good reasons.

1. Fast foods are often quite compact for the amount of calories they hold. They look small so you kid yourself that you are not eating much. Do yourself a favour and look up the calories in the fast food treats you routinely eat.

Once you know exactly how many calories you are taking in with each tasty little snack, you will understand why you can't lose weight. A small packet of potato chips (crisps) for example, will be around 230 calories. To work that one little packet off, you need to walk briskly for around 30 minutes, perhaps more; it depends on your current weight.

2. Fast food calories are often mindlessly ingested, causing "calorie amnesia". You may tend to eat fast foods during the long afternoon when your body "needs a sugar hit" (but really needed a decent breakfast, morning tea and lunch to prevent this sugar craving).

Or you might have made a habit of nibbling a box of chocolates while watching evening TV. You watch the TV, the chocolate goes semi-automatically from box to hand to mouth and before you know it, the whole box is gone.

It's a habit. Spend about a week resisting it and it will fade and disappear.

3. Fast food calories are by and large, lacking good nutritional value. Fast foods tend not to be a balanced meal of mainly unsaturated fats, complex carbs and lean proteins. Fast foods tend to be made up of saturated fats, simple carbs and salt.

No matter what the advertisers try to sell you regarding fast food, you must remember this. Purveyors of fast food work hard to sell their product to make as much money as possible. They are much more concerned about their bottom line than the (stretch mark) lines on our bottoms.

Fat is high energy food and if you don't use it up through regular exercise, it will go straight into your body's preferred storage areas. Sugar is a simple carb and again, if you don't need the energy from it for your daily brisk exercise routine, it is going to convert very readily to fat.

Fat and sugar will give you energy peaks followed by an energy crash, leaving you lethargic, unmotivated to exercise and worst of all, still hungry. The salt in fast foods will encourage your body to retain water, bloat you and slow down your metabolism.

Fast food calories will ruin your diet plans and exercise program with consummate ease.

The only solution is to change what you eat and the portions and times you eat. Before too long you will be positively enjoying a fit and healthy lifestyle and not miss fast foods at all.

Don't believe me. Give it an honest try for a few weeks and find out for yourself. You are going to be very pleasantly surprised at the weight loss results you get from minimising the fast food in your diet.

Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Visit Rosie at lose-fat-get-fit.com.

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