We can't live with it and we can't seem to live without it. Comfort food is something we were born with, we grew up with comfort food and is it even possible to kick the habit? I tried to lose weight simply by cutting back on food, but starving only works for a short time and then you end up bingeing.
I tried to substitute carrot sticks for chips and it works because carrots are sweet and you're not really adding calories, but after a while, you start to crave salt. I found that I don't need snack food to get salt. I can eat a hard boiled egg with salt and get protein and take care of the salt craving.
The biggest attraction to comfort food is the high-fat content. It's the fat content that causes the weight gain. Losing weight for me came when I realized I had to give up fat. The low-fat diet is what worked for me. You can't totally give up fat because there is some fat in almost everything. But low-fat diets are basically fruit, vegetables, and a protein source like beans, seafood, poultry, and occasional meat. Poultry and seafood have fats but the fat isn't the same as animal fat. Humans metabolize animal meat differently because the fats in animals are different than poultry. Animal fats will add fat to your body and you can trim everything possible from animal meat but the fat is marbled into the meat and you can't avoid it. Animal fat is in hamburger, sausage, hot dogs, pork, steaks, and any other product like deli meat that comes from an animal.
One of the new diet trends today is to cut back on meat and salt. Get more protein from plant sources like beans, nuts, legumes, and protein powders. I'm sure that you have seen these big sections of your local grocery store packed full of protein supplement products like protein powder, protein bars, protein shakes etc. All of this is meant to give you protein options to replace meat in your diet. It's been proven that a diet of seafood instead of meat is healthier than the average American diet. Think about it for a minute, in many parts of the world seafood is the main source of protein in the diet and now seaweed and algae is another source of high-nutrient food.
So where do we find those comfort foods with a high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar content? It's the processed foods or manufactured foods that you should avoid if you want to reduce body fat. There are healthy substitutes to even bread and cake but you have to do some work and read labels and buy products that you can trust. Expensive food is not always the best. If you're buying bread, for instants, the brands are not all the same quality. Labels are important so do some work and know what you're buying.
You will save money in the grocery store by not buying the snacks and sodas and desserts. Fresh fruit is the "new" dessert. On the news yesterday the announcer was talking about the stock market and how food manufacturers were losing market share in the grocery stores because the new trend is to buy fresh food. And soda makers have changed to making non-calorie drinks with water. The food business is making the biggest change to their industry in the past 40 years. Many of the old companies will disappear in the next few years. What is happening to retail today will happen to the food industry next.
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