Read the nutrition labels on all foods that have them, and then avoid sugar as much as you can. It’s shocking how much sugar has been loaded into so many “low fat” foods.
For example, compare the sugar amounts in various yogurts, low-fat and otherwise. The amount of sugar per serving in one variety may be 5 or 6 grams, while a variety right next to it on the grocery shelf may have 30 or more grams.
Works for me!
Good advice and a lot of people get tripped up by this because yogurt is touted as health food. But most yogurts on the supermarket shelf are no better than a candy bar. Especially since high sugar yogurt is marketed as "low fat" - which is exactly what you want to stay away from when you are losing weight. For fat is often traded off for sugar.
Low fat = high sugar almost every time. And sugar makes you fat, not fat.
The best yogurts to eat are actually those that are high in milkfat - they will have the lowest amount of sugar. Look for the cream topped yogurts too. The ones without the gooey fruit at the bottom.
What I do is buy blueberries or blackberries and mix them in with plain or plain vanilla yogurt with at least 6% milkfat. Brown Cow is a good brand and so is Siggis. In fact, Siggis just came out with a 9% milkfat yogurt (actually called skyr as it is from Iceland).
My FRiend Dumbgrunt rigged up a small lunch cooler with some type of warmer, to make his own yogurt.
A gallon of milk costs $2.50
that’s 128 oz.
A container of yogurt is 6oz at about $0.40 on a good sale.
Other wise $0.50 -$0.60
That would be $10.50 @ $0.50 each for the same amount you could make.
Add your own fruit and avoid the sugar.
Lots of vids on Youtube on making your own yogurt.
Don't forget sodium! So many low-fat "healthy" foods are packed with sodium!