Flex Australia – June-July 2017

82 FLEX | JUNE – JULY 2017

DIET

TRAPS

OF

BY MATTHEW KADEY • PHOTOGRAPHS BY GORMAN STUDIO

BEWARE

THESE NINE NUTRITION SABOTEURS CAN

WRECK YOUR PHYSIQUE IN SHORT ORDER — UNLESS

YOU SIDESTEP THEM WITH THE FOLLOWING TRICKS.

JUST LIKE TRAINING, healthy eating is much

more complicated than knowing the basics. Sure, you

probably realise by now that a deep-fried onion blossom

is not exactly conducive to maintaining a rock-solid

midsection. But what about all those lesser-known acts

of food sabotage that could be creeping into your

everyday eating habits? Some, like eating too fast,

could seem rather benign at first, but in fact can

be a big reason your physique is more

doughy than chiseled. Read on for nine

surprising — yet all-too-common

— diet traps.