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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of My Heart Radio.
I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted. Fit
tip the number one thing on a food label when
you're trying to lose weight. So, if you're like so
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many people out there who are trying to lose some weight,
a few pounds maybe more, you're trying to figure out
what foods are the ones to help you achieve that goal.
And you may be looking at energy bars, at protein drinks,
at different juices, at different bags of of snack foods.
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You know, you are looking and trying to find foods
that are gonna help you drop that weight, and it
could be really, really confusing. The food industry just confuses you.
And they have terms like net cars and if you
don't know what that is, just did a fit tip
about it. Listen to that quick fit Tip show and
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that will set you straight on net carbs. But you
look at labels and they don't have things like low fat,
low car low sugar, high fat. What are you to
look for when it comes to losing weight? It is
so confusing for so many people. Now I will say
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this once and I will say it again before the
end of the short fit tip. This is about weight
loss first and foremost, not being healthy, and I'll talk
about that. But when the ultimate goal is to lose weight,
the first and most important ingredient, if you want to
call it that. On a food label, the first thing
you look for is calories. It's calories, because it doesn't
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matter if it's low fat, if it's low carb, if
it's low sugar, how many net carbs it has. If
it's five hundred calories and you're only looking to have
something with maybe three to fifty three fifty, then it
doesn't matter how wod sugar, how many carbs, how many,
how many grams of fat, because for pure weight loss,
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it's about calories in and calories out for pure weight loss,
not for health. For pure weight loss. And when you
are generally grabbing something like a bar or a premate
drink or a bag of something, it's not an apple
or vegetables, generally speaking, it's something premate. But again, if
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the calories are excessive, none of the other ingredients are
going to make a bit of difference when it truly
comes to weight loss. If you think you are eating
something that is low calorie and it isn't that is
going to sabotage your weight loss efforts. Now I have
to also saying that, of course it has to satiate you.
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What does that mean If you eat something that's super
low calorie and it makes you hungry ten minutes later,
then it's not doing the job. So even though I
say you have to look at calories, ideally, if you
can find something, and again i'm generally speaking about meal replacement, bars, drinks,
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things like that, you want it to be as healthy
as possible, but that goes for everything. When you're looking
at labels, you need to know how many calories? Have
you gone to a restaurant that has the calories of
the dinners and appetizers and desserts and you're blown away
and what you think is healthy is not, or what
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you think has low calories doesn't. So that's why you
start there because it may be too well. You may
say a hundred fifty calories, I need to fifty or
three hundred if you're truly using it as a meal replacement.
And then you may say, holy cow, it's a salad
and it's got twelve hundred calories. So start with calories
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when the ultimate goal is reducing calories for weight loss.
But again, you can make it as healthy as possible
with as few ingredients as possible and ingredients that you recognize.
The less process the better. And we are living in
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a time. Back when I first started, there was like
two power bars and they tasted like cardboard. Now the
options are almost endless. But when it's about calories in
calories out, if you take in something that is a
seven hundred calorie drink that you think is low calorie
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and you're trying to lose weight, that's not going to
do it for you. So yes, protein is important. Yes,
you want it to be something that sustains you because
if it doesn't make you feel full long enough, then
it's no good period. So you have to experiment. But
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that's the fifth tip. When the goal is to reduce
calories so you can reduce your weight and you're looking
for something to maybe replace a meal or a quick
snack or maybe a full meal, you need to know
how many calories are in that meal, and there you
have it. The number one thing on a food label
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when you're trying to lose weight. Start there and then
look at the other ingredients. I am Tom holland thank
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h Fit. The website is Fitness disrupted dot com. And
remember that my goal is to help you have the
best information, to have the best life, to weed through
the misinformation, to make sense of the myths so that
you can look better, feel better, and live longer. Because
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there are three things we control, how much we move,
what we put into our mouths, and our attitudes. And
that's awesome. Thank you for listening. I'm Tom Holland this
is Fitness Disrupted. Believe in yourself. Fitness Disrupted is a
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