Slimymed loss goals, you should really think about how many calorie-dense foods you have in your diet first. And then oils and sauces and dressings that contain oil and you're not losing weight. That's a reasonable place to look for the hidden calories. When it comes to sugars, sugars are really added ubiquitously all over the place. So again, this is, they're hidden in breads. They're hidden in sauces. They're hidden all over the place. So probably the first place I would look is in your beverages, because companies can really pack a lot of added sugar into beverages. And try to get in the habit of getting those out of your routine. And one word of caution is I would not turn to the non-nutritive sweeteners, so the sweeteners that are zero calories. I usually don't recommend those, for a few reasons. One is that there is some emerging evidence that they may affect, in a negative way, our gut bacteria and the type of patterns that we have and sort of move things in a more negative direction. But more realistically, the other thing that they do is that they keep you craving sweet food, because many of them taste hundreds of times sweeter to your
