ONE of the biggest mistakes a lot of people make is to pay scant or no attention to what they eat. The smart thing to do in order to lose weight fast is to clean up your diet and eliminate the most unhealthy foods altogether.

Here are five most unhealthy foods to eliminate from your diet if you want to lose weight fast:

1) Soda or Soft Drinks

Many people have the habit of finishing their meals with a soda or soft drink. That means consuming at least three sodas a day. If you know that one can of soda has the equivalent of 10 teaspoonfuls of sugar, will you still drink it? Soda adds nothing but a ton of calories and fat to your diet. Drink plenty of water, green, black or herbal teas to quell the need to drink sodas.

2) Fruit Juice

Fruit Juice is often mistaken as a healthier alternative to soda. Though packed with vitamins, fruit juices are also full of sugar, more than eating the fruit itself. Drinking fruit juice with meals regularly is unhealthy as it spikes blood sugars. Eat the whole fruit instead.

3) White Breads

White breads are made of refined grains and refined grains have little nutritional value because the germ and bran layer have been removed. White breads being low in fiber, are digested quickly by the body which makes you hungry again very quickly and crave for food. Clean up your diet by eating whole grain breads instead to avoid food cravings and over eating.

4) Foods with Trans Fats

Foods high in trans fats are bad for our health and heart yet they are found in great abundance in the modern diet. The list of unhealthy foods with high trans fats include margarine, cakes, French fries, cookies, popcorn, frozen meals, pies, potato chips, crackers and many other commercially baked foods. Trans fats appear on the food labels as partially hydrogenated oils and vegetable shortenings. Clean up your diet by cutting down on processed, packaged foods.

5) Deep Fried Foods

Deep fried foods are tasty but extremely high in calories and saturated fat. Because most fried foods in fast food joints and restaurants are fried in oil that has been used repeatedly, eating fried foods can pose serious health threats as deep frying causes by-products that are carcinogenic. To lose weight fast, clean up your diet by eliminating deep fried foods such as fried chicken, fried fish, hash brown, French fries and onion rings.

© Teresa Cheong, RightEatingHabits.com

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Teresa Cheong is a freelance writer and a passionate healthy lifestyle advocate. She enjoys sharing with others the knowledge and experience she has in achieving healthy weight loss and overcoming health challenges.

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