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Alysha's guide to a smaller stomach.
If you're on this Wiki page then you must be where I'm at in this. You've been through every possible diet, exercise routine, moderation, and change to avoid taking pills. (Or you're just too young to buy them.)I'll admit now this page is probably going to make a closer connection to girls from 10 to 18, but will work just as well on an adult of any gender. And if you live in America, this will make a whole lot more sense if you're ok with the well known fact that the government is screwing with your food in 'not nice' ways. Once again on the "been everywhere" thing, you're tired of every speech before the person gets to the point, so I'll start giving you the jist of it now.

So let's start with Reduced Fat Items Items like reduced fat peanut butter, are some you probably think are healthy for you, but unfortunately they're not. Some of the fats taken out of the food are actually good for you, and add sugar instead to make it taste better. Along with other crazy ingredients. You'd be much better off with natural peanut butter. Compare the ingredient amount next time you're at the store, remember the less ingredients listed (or at least with names you don't understand) the healthier and less fattening it is for you.

Diet Soda Surprised again? Diet soda actually increases your chance of becoming overweight. Again induced with artificial sweeteners which are much worse for your body than natural sugars. Artificial sweeteners can actually mess with your body's reaction to Natural sugars, so if you're going off and buying raw sugar because you think it's helping you (which it is), it really won't matter if you're putting three packets of Splenda in your daily coffee. It actually fails to release the hormone that controls the blood sugar and blood pressure. So if you have any form of diabetes it would be so much safer for you to just give up soda all together, or at least cut down by 80% and when drinking soda drink REAL soda. Just try and pick from something without a ridiculous amount of caffeine. One last fun fact on diet soda: Those who drink it are 30% more likely to suffer from depression.

Trial mix Especially store bought and factory produced trail mix. It contains excess amounts of Sugar, Sodium, and Fat Calories. One hand full can contain 300+ Calories. <(not all from fat) The much healthier alternative to this would be un-salted or raw nuts.

Dried fruit Dried fruit has 3 times the calories of normal fruit, and usually sugar and sulfur is added to preserve it.