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If you are hoping to lose weight, it’s important to pay attention to your diet. In addition, making sure that you start your morning with the weight loss friendly foods is a good way to set the tone for the rest of the day. However, some seemingly healthy breakfast foods can actually lead to weight gain.
With that in mind, keep reading for the one food you should never had before 10 AM!
Store-Bought Smoothies
Smoothies may seem like a healthy breakfast option, but the store-bought versions might actually be the opposite. Often, store-bought smoothies are surprisingly high in sugar.
According to Delish, "Some can even contain ice cream or full-fat milk, so it's more like a milkshake than anything else."
In addition, the portions in store-bought smoothies are often higher than what you would eat normally.
Speaking to INSIDER, Dr. Alka Gupta, co-director of the Integrative Health & Wellbeing Program at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, explained, "When we combine these foods into a smoothie, it becomes quite easy to drink a much higher amount of calories and sugar (from just the foods themselves), than when we're eating the whole foods.
Gupta continued, "When you think about a fruit-based 20-ounce smoothie, it probably contains a lot more fruit than we'd usually eat in one sitting."
You also might not fill up as quickly. Gupta explained, "The reason I usually recommend eating whole vegetables and fruits, rather than drinking them, is that the fibrous and pulpy parts contain valuable nutrients, and also serve to fill you up."
