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With all of the untested theories of weight loss floating around in diet books - remember, not everything you read in a book written by 'doctors' or 'professors' is necessarily true - there are many ideas that may have snuck in the back door of your consciousness and affected how you think about eating, dieting, exercising and, ultimately, losing weight.

Here are 6 unhealthy thoughts to banish from your mind forever.

1.     MYTH: Cutting out carbs is the best way to lose weight

This is a 'don't throw the baby out with the bathwater' type deal. Processed sugar is a carbohydrate. Processed sugar - in the amounts common to the Western diet - is a sure-fire way to gain weight and become unhealthy.

The ‘popular solution’? Demonize carbohydrates! Don't eat cake and sweets and chocolates, but ALSO don't eat perfectly good carbs like fruits, potatoes and rice.

The difference between an apple and a piece of chocolate cake is so obvious is frightens me to have to mention it... One is a NATURAL food, the other is MANUFACTURED from highly processed ingredients and sugars.

Instead of cutting out ALL carbs, maybe a more BALANCED approach would be to try to cut out UNNATURAL foods from your diet. Makes sense, right?

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