If you’re like me, you’ll love puddings and chocolate and cakes and sweeties, especially pick’n'mix! Not only that but sugar in tea is always a must for me and I love to home bake. But even if you use lower fat butter or marge for cooking and have low fat cakes and treats, they’re not much better for you…Sugar will hinder your weight loss just as much as fat in your diet by adding lots of calories and will cause more fat around your stomach area too!
I noticed that even though I don’t drink high sugar drinks like Coke and Lemonade, I have 2 sugars in my tea, add sugar to my porridge, even the yoghurt’s I get are fairly high in sugar! I did a little bit more researching into my sugar intake and I was astonished at how much I actually consume! Sugar adds a lot of calories to your diet, so if you’re finding you’ve cut right down on fat but not noticing a difference in your weight loss, take a look at the sugar in your diet.
There are ways of cutting back on sugar, getting used to not having so much sweetness or still having sweet things though.
Cutting down gradually on sugar in drinks like tea and coffee is a great way of cutting excess sugar out your diet. Going from 2 sugars, then to 1 and a half, then 1 then a half then non at all week by week is a great way to cut it down.
Comparing your shopping items can really help you learn about the contents of your food too. Take a look at the sugar levels and choose the lower in sugar option. You’ll probably notice little difference in taste and you’ll be healthier for it too! Not bad!
Changing your diet so that sugary foods are few and far between will also help make them taste just as sweet and a nice treat but won’t be a frequent trouble for your weight loss.
If you do want to add a bit of sweetness to food and drinks, try natural sweeteners like fruits, honey and vanilla, even cinnamon can take the bitterness out of something. Or instead of going for something sweet, how about something minty or spicy for a change? You might find you don’t need much sugar after a while!