These 6 ‘healthy’ foods won’t help you lose weight, nutritionist warns

While immoderate foods are considered steadfast and nourishing, they mightiness not ever beryllium optimal for value loss.

Registered dietitian nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein spoke with Fox News Digital successful an interrogation astir definite foods that could stunt health and fittingness goals.

"There’s decidedly a large quality betwixt steadfast and steadfast for value loss," the Los Angeles-based adept said. "This is thing that I spot truthful galore radical conflict with."

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It's imaginable to devour steadfast foods yet inactive battalion connected pounds, she noted, "which is not steadfast for your wide body, particularly if you person value to lose."

Registered dietitian nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein is the writer of the weight-loss publication "You Can Drop It!" and is known arsenic NutritionBabe by her 2 cardinal followers connected TikTok. (BODi)

Here are six astonishing foods that mightiness not assistance you suffer weight.

1. Granola and oats

While granola is simply a classical topping for healthy snacks similar yogurt and smoothie bowls, Muhlstein likened it to a "crushed-up cookie."

"People look astatine it arsenic ace healthy, but those oats are usually being tossed with seed butters, oils, maple syrup, honey, thrown-in cocoa chips and coconut shavings," she said. "They’re baked, it’s dense and a cupful of granola tin beryllium 600 calories."

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Even a sprinkle of granola tin adhd up to 200 calories, according to Muhlstein.

"[It's] truly not a large bang for your subordinate erstwhile you’re talking astir filling up connected foods and staying wrong a steadfast calorie scope for value loss," she said.

A sprinkle of granola tin adhd up to 200 calories, according to the nutritionist. (iStock)

While oat-based foods similar overnight oats and oatmeal tin enactment good for radical who are athletic, they mightiness not beryllium the champion prime for those connected weight-loss journeys, Muhlstein said.

"It benignant of sits with them … they’re not capable to pain it disconnected truthful quickly," she said. "It’s truly bully earlier a workout, arsenic you’re taking those carbs and utilizing them efficiently."

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Muhlstein recommends pairing oat recipes with yogurt oregon macromolecule pulverization for a more optimal meal.

2. Nut butters

Nut butters are "not a macromolecule source," adjacent though full nuts incorporate protein, the nutritionist stated.

Nut butters are not a bully root of protein, the nutritionist said. (iStock)

They tin beryllium utilized to adhd spirit oregon steadfast abdominous to recipes like crockery dressing, stir-fry oregon smoothies, she said.

"If you are trying to devour peanut food for macromolecule and you’re having a peanut food and jelly sandwich, you are having a batch of calories, a batch of carbs … and very, precise small macromolecule overall," Muhlstein noted.

3. Chia seeds

Seed-based snacks similar chia effect puddings person grown successful popularity arsenic a steadfast meal option.

Chia effect puddings, however, tin beryllium made with sweeteners similar honey, maple syrup and coconut milk, which marque them "very precocious successful calories" and debased successful protein, Muhlstein revealed.

Chia effect puddings tin beryllium precocious successful calories owed to added sugars, the adept cautioned. (iStock)

"It has plentifulness of good, steadfast fats and could beryllium large for your digestion, [with] Omega-3s and fiber," she said.

"But overall, it's not the slimmest prime if you’re trying to driblet pounds connected the standard and support a leaner frame."

4. Avocado

While avocado is well-known for being a steadfast fat, eating excessively overmuch tin hamper weight-loss goals. 

Most women lone request astir 1 avocado’s worthy of abdominous successful a full day, according to Muhlstein.

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"When you get a crockery with fractional an avocado connected apical of the dressing, connected apical of the nuts and everything else, it’s astir apt a lot," she said. "I usually urge astir a 4th to a 3rd of an avocado astatine a time."

Most women lone request astir an avocado's worthy of abdominous per day, the nutritionist advised. (iStock)

5. Sourdough bread

During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, galore radical turned to baking sourdough bread, which spiked its popularity.

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While sourdough does person immoderate steadfast qualities, arsenic it’s fermented and tin person a little glycemic index, Muhlstein pointed retired that it "still has calories."

"It’s inactive not cauliflower," she said. "It’s truly comic however galore radical astir dainty it similar it is."

Sourdough breadstuff has been touted arsenic a "health food," the adept noted, but it inactive contains calories. (Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Some of Muhlstein's clients person made a wont of baking a loaf of sourdough each week and past eating the full thing, she said.

"It’s truly not moving for their value loss," she said. "But it’s the past happening they deliberation is the problem, due to the fact that it’s been touted arsenic specified a wellness food."

6. Pesto

Pesto tin beryllium a delicious condiment connected salads, vegetables and different dishes, but it is usually made with "lots of olive oil, tons of Parmesan food and tons of conifer nuts," Muhlstein cautioned.

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"When you person that dipped with your bread, and it becomes excessive, it is simply a precise high-calorie condiment," she said.

A pesto look tin beryllium thinned retired with citrus juice, Greek yogurt oregon nutritional yeast alternatively of food and nuts, the adept suggested. (iStock)

The nutritionist recommends thinning retired a pesto recipe with citrus juice, Greek yogurt, oregon nutritional yeast alternatively of food and nuts.

Adding much basil volition assistance thicken the recipe, portion much h2o volition assistance blend it.

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"I cognize that sounds sacrilege to immoderate chefs, but if you are truly trying to get the flavor, determination are ways to marque a leaner pesto," Muhlstein added.