8 ‘healthy’ foods that are ‘detrimental to weight loss’ and why you should ‘avoid them’

Depending on your weight loss goals, and relationship with food, some items can hinder the chances of the number on the scales decreasing. Diet expert Pippa Campbell revealed five reasons why you might not be losing weight, and amongst the list was eating ‘healthy foods’ which are in fact, high in calories or fat. As well as highlighting the foods that should be avoided, the Functional Nutrition and Weight Loss Practitioner provided more nutritional alternatives. 

Pippa said: “If your goal is weight loss, consuming foods which are healthy but high in calories or fat will not help your efforts. 

“Certain fruits are higher in sugar and so should be swapped in for lower sugar alternatives.” 

Limit fruits such as bananas, mangoes, apples, pears, cherries, grapes and lychees. 

Instead, replace with raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, lemon, lime, papaya. 

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“Low fat and fat free salad dressings often contain lots of sugar and preservatives and have little nutritional value. 

“A healthy salad dressing would use olive oil as a base which is a healthy fat useful for helping our body to absorb antioxidants from vegetables. 

“We can add things like balsamic or apple cider vinegar plus lemon to the oil to create a simple yet nutritious dressing,” Pippa added.