Sweet Tooth Keeping You Overweight?

Eating sugar tells your body to store fat. Every time you eat sugar your blood glucose levels rise signalling the release of insulin, which is a fat storing hormone. The more sugar, the more insulin, the more fat storage!

Think soft drinks, cocktails, breakfast cereal bars as well the obvious biscuits, pastries, cakes and sweets. Many savoury, processed foods also contain sugar; baked beans, soups, sauces and ready meals for example. If you read the labels on the products you purchase, you will see just how much sugar you are really ingesting. For the same reasons as reducing sugar, starch should also be regulated: white bread, white pasta, white rice, potatoes and cereal products.

Research shows that by keeping your blood sugar levels stable and avoiding sugar rushes you diminish the fat storing consequences of insulin release and avoid the slump in energy that can send you back for more. Step by step start to reduce the amount of sugar and white starch you eat. You don’t have to give up desserts and sweet food altogether but they do need to become an occasional choice and not a daily habit.

Give up your sugar fixes in the same way you would cigarettes. Aim to replace sugary foods with fruit more often and white starches with wholemeal varieties. Realise you don’t need to finish every meal with a sweet. Have a sugar free day and enjoy the feeling of your inner resolve and strength instead.

Ultimately to maintain a realistic weight loss you will have to control and choose what you eat. Learn to say no, exercise self control and focus on something else instead…there is life after sugar as you will discover.