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When you try to losing weight , grocery store can be an endless challenge. Even if you try to avoid "bad" foods, to opt for healthier choices and ingredients, you may not realize that some products you think are nutritious - thanks to intelligent advertising and marketing strategies - are not at all healthy at all. What you eat may be "false health foods", according to fitness expert Michael Smoak .

"You can eat a lot of different foods while achieving your calorie and weight loss or muscle gain goals," said Smoak on January 11 Video on Tiktok , where he uses the @higherupwellness handle. "But many people eat foods that I will share with you because they think they will help with these goals, when in fact, they have no idea that they are extremely caloric or sugar loaded And do not sit. "

Do you want to know which products could delay your weight loss goals? Read the rest for the 12 SMOAK brands and products recommends jumping to the store.

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The first on the Smoak list is the dense granola of the calories, a commentator of which asked SMOAK in response to SMOAK first video on food to avoid.

"Someone specifically commented:" But what about granola in my yogurt? "No," he said, holding a bag of bunches of brand peanut butter. "[There are] 260 calories for only 10 grams of protein - it's absurd. Without forgetting, it's a lot of calories for three bites of food."

In general, Smoak also doesn't like the kind brand. So, if you like your granola, Smoak recommends exchange a "cleaner" option from the Pure Elizabeth brand, which has "better quality" ingredients.

Although you can think that it is healthy, the food products that say "reduced in fats" are quite the opposite.

"Everything that says" reduced from fat "- constantly [explanive]", says Smoak, surlating the expression of a "movement of the 90s".

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Smoak is not a fan of the Nature Valley brand - at least more.

"I used to start my day with a lot of Valley nature products," he said. "It is dislocated behavior."

While joining by saying that the honey granola bars of nature valley crunchy oats n with honey "will always have a special place" in his heart, even with 22 grams of "whole grain", the snacks are not healthy .

Instead, he recommends that you "start your day with proteins, eggs, an animal protein of your choice". And if you have to count on bars for a entry option, consider the RXBAR brand.

"It's not bad, little lower protein, but it's super clean," he said about Rxbar. "I just don't feel just about advertising other protein bars because they have so many crazy ingredients these days."

Smoak says that the Kodiak brand "is not sure either".

Using a pack of granola kodiaks bars, he notes that they have only 7 grams of protein and a "large amount of ingredients".

However, when he says he wouldn't eat the Kodiak Flapjack and the waffle mixture because it wouldn't fill him, "there are worse choices you can make."

Then, the list of "Smoak's false health foods" are the "complete cookies" by Lenny & Larry.

"People eat them without looking at the label and realizing that it is 420 calories for a cookie the size of your hand, for only 16 grams of protein", sharing Smoak.

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By holding a bag of blueberries covered with trufru cream, Smoak says they may seem "a little healthy", but in reality, they "are a kind of dessert snack".

He continues, "and then you realize that eating like three of these blueberries is 150 calories."

If you like dessert, Smoak says he is a big fan of Lindt chocolate bars. Although they have "a good amount of sugar added", they also have minimum ingredients.

"It is only, like 560 calories for all this bar," he said about a dark chocolate option with sea salt. "A very satisfactory way to stick to a diet if you have a sweet desire. "

This is particularly delicate, because dried fruits are not "intrinsically bad", notes Smoak.

"[But] When you remove the water from the fruit, you considerably reduce the volume," he explains. "So you can eat like six mangoes in 28 pieces."

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Although it does not share a lot of context, Welch fruit snacks are also on the Smoak Non list.

"If you feed them to your child in the morning, we have beef," he said.

Nuts are an excellent addition to your diet, but you want to make sure to understand the size of the portions and their nutritional value.

"Please read nutrition labels on your nuts," urges Smoak. "No, the nuts are not intrinsically unhealthy, as everyone thought that I said [in my last video], but they are a source of fat, not a source of protein as they are marketed as."

He adds: "[a] small, small handful of nuts: 170 calories. People eat 600 calories of almonds or nuts per day and wonder why they cannot lose weight - [it is] because They don't follow him. "

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Yoplait Yogurt is another jump in Smoak's book. Instead, opt for the Fage brand. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"Add a little raw honey or stevia and fruits - [it's a] Go -to for me," Smoak told viewers. "Kill a sweet tooth."

In his previous video, Smoak advised his disciples to avoid the aisle of cereals as a whole. But in his follow-up, he highlights specific jump options, like Bran grape, which you may think healthy because he is "rich in fiber".

"You still have 41 grams of carbohydrates for only 5 grams of protein," he said. "[When] you have carbohydrates in the absence of protein, you are not full or full for a long time."

Another food that you might think is a choice of health.

"[You see] Made" with avocado oil ", so you enter it on the shelf," says Smoak, raising a bathtub of country plant butter. "What you don't do is look at the back and see 'mixture of plants based on plants' - soybeans, palm, palm nucleus - and avocado like the last."

Another option of Country Crock made "with olive oil" is the one he would also jump, as I cannot believe that it is not butter.

"I am not one of those guys who says:" You will explode if you have seed oil from time to time "but when you learn how they are made, you said to yourself:" Oh, I am not "I don't want to put it in my body," he explains. "They did not even exist in the human regime up to 70 years ago."

Smoak encourages you to opt for ordinary butter, as it is a staple food in human regimes for "thousands of years" and has the same amount of calories.

Overall, SMOAK preaches moderation, warning in particular viewers about the obligation with things like Cémier de Café - like these calories can add up quickly.

In general, he says, "being in good shape is not miserable, it is a question of relaunching your level of awareness of food labels and the quantity of certain foods that you can eat. Most people are simply not aware of the calories. "

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