Health foods that will sabotage quick weight loss

Many people think they are eating healthy to achieve quick weight loss and really they are just sabotaging their diets because they are eating too much of these "health" foods or underestimating the amounts they actually ate.

Here are a few of the top "health" food culprits as well as healthier substitutions to achieve quick weight loss.

6-oz. bag of vegetable chips

Calories: 840

Low-Calorie Alternative: 16-oz. bag of baby carrots with ½ cup hummus (390 cal)

1 cup of trail mix

Cal: 693

Low-Calorie Alternative: ¼ cup almonds and ¼ cup dried apricots (280 cal)

Fruit smoothie

Cal: 600

Low-Calorie Alternative: Naked Antioxidant 100 percent juice smoothie in Berry Blast (240 cal)

1 cup of granola

Cal: 597

Low-Calorie Alternative: 1 cup whole-oat flake cereal (140 cal)

1 corn muffin

Cal: 424

Low-Calorie Alternative: 2 oz. corn bread (150 cal)

3 oz. yogurt- covered raisins

Cal: 390

Low-Calorie Alternative: 1.41-oz. package of dark-chocolate-covered fig candy (150 cal)

2 Tbsp. olive oil

Cal: 239

Low-Calorie Alternative: 1 Tbsp. olive oil plus 1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar (133 cal)

So the next time you are wondering why you aren't seeing any quick weight loss yet you are eating "healthy" foods take a look at exactly what you are eating and see if there is a better alternative.

Yours in health!

Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS
Author of Dress Size Reduction Diet