When it comes to losing weight, you are always going to have to sacrifice something in order to see satisfactory results. Typically, you do not need to completely deprive yourself of any type of food. While dieting, most of your favorite sweet snacks can still be enjoyed when eating in moderation. However, some food is so unhealthy that even a bite is too much.

1. Fast food:
Burgers, fries, shakes, chicken fingers, and everything else served at most fast food chains is filled with nothing but things that are bad for your health. The most glaring culprit for this is trans fat, which unlike any other type of fat, has absolutely no nutritional value of any kind it is strictly bad for you.

2. Potato chips:
Just an ounce of plain potato chips contains ten grams of fat, roughly one-sixth of the recommended daily intake. Of the 153 calories in each serving, an eye-popping 92 are from fat. And chips tend to be the kind of snack that you sit down to eat without measuring out a serving. It's better to just cut them out completely rather than trying to ration a few of them into a weight loss diet.

3. Soda:
When do you drink soda? You drink it when you're thirsty. So why drink something that has absolutely no redeeming health qualities and makes you even thirstier? Drop cola from your daily diet and replace it with water. You might not think it tastes as good, but you'll be saving yourself a lot of calories and sugars without even cutting a single snack from your diet.

4. Candy bars:
Not going anywhere for awhile? Well, neither will that extra five pounds if you keep downing Snickers bars in the waiting room. The typical candy bar contains about one half of the recommended daily consumption of saturated fat without adding a scrap of nutrition beyond the occasional dabbling of calcium from milk chocolate.

5. Ice cream:
It's the tasty treat that you scream for as a child and still savor as an adult, but it's always unhealthy no matter your age. Ice cream has high contents of everything that hinders weight loss - saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, and calories. The exception is if you can find a light ice cream that is low in fat and preferably sugar-free; if you can muster up the self-discipline to limit yourself to the serving size, you can have it on occasion.

6. Delivery pizza:
Just one slice of pepperoni pizza from a delivery place contains about 300 calories, five grams of saturated fat, and 750 milligrams of sodium. So, if

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