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Have you tried several times to lose the last 10 vanity pounds without success? Stuck in a rut, even if you watch what you eat and work like a demon?

The secret of all your problems can be "hidden" in foods you eat!

Serving, scientifically named ingredients, labeling and ambiguous terms as "other carbohydrates" can lead to increased intake of calories, fat, carbohydrates and may be unintentional!

Make mine rocket, Please!
In the U.S., anything that can be consumed as food is necessary to have a nutrition label with the manufacturer. You've seen them on everything from cereal to bottled water.

The problem is that while manufacturers are prominently the serving size on the package, as consumers, we often forget this very important number!

Take one of Digiorno Supreme Frozen Pizza, for example. Without reading ahead, how many servings you would think in this fun frozen? Would it feed two people? Three?

Try SIX! It is a slice of pizza per person. Of course, nobody is going to eat a piece of pizza, right?

A slice of pizza Digiorno Supreme is 370 calories - each. Six grams of saturated fat - each. One thousand milligrams of sodium retention of water - each.

Multiply that by three slices prol'ly you'll have when you eat and you get ... 975 calories, 18 grams of artery-clogging saturated fat and 3,000 mg of sodium in one meal.

Just in case you have not lost your lunch thinking that here is a little extra: Digiorno uses sodium nitrate in their pizza. Not a big problem? Never heard of it? Lemme clarify for you:

"Sodium nitrate is used as an ingredient in fertilizers, fireworks, food preservative and as solid rocket propellant, and in glass and ceramic glazes, the compound has been used extensively for these purposes. " (Source: Wikipedia)

Nothing like rocket propellant to make you want to reach for that extra edge!

Now, just in case you're reading this and thinking, "Yeah, but it's pizza. My body is a temple. I eat healthy and drink it!" Let Vitamin Water then! The name suggests that its "good for you", because it has vitamin both the words "and" water "in it.

Looking closer, you may want to rethink what you use to moisturize if calories and sugar are a concern for you!

Just because the drink comes in a bottle, most people assume that the bottle will be enough for one person. The portion should be one, right?

Wrong! A bottle of Vitamin Water is actually two and one and a half servings. This means rather than having 50 calories, it has 125 calories. Instead of 13 sugars, it is 32.5!

And if you are substituting for Vitamin Water 8-10 glasses of eight ounces of water you should drink each day is a 1250 more calories per day and 325 carbohydrates from sugar you ingest ALL DAYS!

Nibbler Syndrome
Maybe you really watch what you eat and worked diligently. Maybe you keep an eye on portion sizes and still can not understand where the top of the mini-muffin comes around your abdomen.

Ask your children!

Most parents love their children happy. They are places like McArches or give 'em hot dogs and chips for lunch, without really looking at what is in their children's food.

Many parents also take a nibble of food their children eat too! This builds on unnecessary calories and fat that you had not taken into account in your daily food diary.

How? Let's see:

Fixing lunch for the kiddos at home?

A mouthful of hot dogs, buns, with ke.