Rice cakes
You may see rice cakes as a staple diet snack, but in fact their high Glycemic Index (GI) means they’ll raise your blood sugar levels and leave you hungry quickly. Not a good way to stick to the diet, as you’ll be reaching for a more filling (and more fattening) snack in no time. Swap the rice cake, which has a GI of 87, for a Ryvita, which has a GI of 63.
Salad dressing
Don’t ruin your healthy salad by slapping an unhealthy dressing all over it, full of saturated fat and empty calories. Dietician Ursula Arens says, “A lot of salad dressings are high in fat. I specifically would advise caution with the creamy US-style dressings, like blue-cheese dressing. French vinaigrette still has a lot of oil but it is highly unsaturated, so better on the health scale.”
Nutritionist Penny Crowther recommends making your own dressing with sesame or hemp oil for their content of omega 6 fats, which “if unheated are very beneficial and will actually help the metaboli
