Originally Posted by
CommuteCommando
Fast food has a lot of hidden sugar. Most french fries from fast food joints even have a light sugar coating, that turns to caramel coloring in the deep fryer. Most canned foods, and breads, from the grocery store have sugar pretty high up in the ingredients list.
Just to be clear, when losing weight, it matters little the type of the food just the calories. You can lose weight eating just twinkies but it's not optimal for maintaining muscle mass and getting you vitamins and minerals. It's not reasonable to say someone can never eat out if they want to lose weight, the key is planning for it and limiting the frequencey.