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Although the Whole Foods Weight Loss Eating Plan doesn’t have foods in the Red Light category, red is important because it simply means, “Stop and think! You’re about to exceed the limit.” No food is absolutely forbidden on the Whole Foods Weight Loss Eating Plan. You just want to make sure that most of the time your five carbohydrate choices per day come from legumes, whole grains, and starchy vegetables in the Yellow Light category. But, if you must have a treat, you can trade it for an equivalent amount of Yellow Light food.

Stopping is what you should do when you’re faced with breads, cookies, cakes, pastries, cereals, gravies, thickened soups, sugar, syrup, chocolate, or soft drinks that can cause you to exceed your carbohydrate limit. These highly refined carbohydrate foods can spike your blood sugar and stimulate your insulin response. You’ll find yourself with hard-to-control hunger the rest of the day. When you do occasionally indulge in these foods be sure to make them part of the five carb choices and you’ll not experience erratic blood sugar and insulin levels.