No. 1: Fruit Juice
Most people are blindly fooled into thinking that lots of fruit juice is a great way to be healthy and lose fat. Sure, fruit juice has a lot of antioxidants in it, but the truth is that fruit juice will almost instantly skyrocket your blood sugar, causing you to crave even more sugar! Worse are the processed juices loaded with artificial junk like High Fructose Corn Syrup and Crystalline Fructose... these can actually cause even MORE cravings for pancreas-pummeling sugar.
What to do? Eat fresh fruit in season instead... loaded with fibre, you'll slow down the blood sugar response and keep your cravings under control much quicker.
No. 2: White Bread
White bread is stripped of all its natural fibre and nutrition. It acts pretty much like regular sugar in your body and can get quickly stored as fat, especially when eaten by itself. And don't forget about the increase sugar cravings that come with all of that blood sugar spiking. Walk into a school ground at lunch time and you'll probably see dozens of overweight children downing fruit juices and white bread sandwiches... parents please we need to educate our children and help them make better choices!
No. 3: Most Breakfast Cereals
Take a look at most cereal boxes in your grocery store (maybe even your cupboard?) and you will see a TON of sugar in every serving - and most people eat two or three servings in just one bowl! Then they wonder why they’re hungry an hour or so later as their blood sugar is going crazy.
What to do? Stick to cereals that have a lot of natural fibre and lower sugar, at least a gram of fibre for every 5 grams of sugar minimum. Equal amounts of fibre and sugar is ideal.
An even better choice? Natural oatmeal with a little cinnamon and a handful of whole blueberries. It’s loaded with fibre with some good fats and proteins. Watch out for those instant oatmeal’s though... absolutely loaded with sugar! Remember organic is best and can be found in any health food section of supermarket or health food store. Better still if you are lucky enough to have a bulk food store in your area you can take your own containers, have them filled with all your legumes, oats, rice, nuts, honey ect. Not only saves on packaging costs you are also supporting the local business and often the local growers!
And an even BETTER choice?
For me personally…I have this easily covered.. with a balance of sugar, carbohydrate, protein, fibre, amino acids, vitamins and minerals in an powder form easily blended into blueberry smoothie each morning. My kick start to the day!
To find out how you too can get everything you need in balance quickly and easily each morning…drop me a line and I would be happy to help you achieve optimum health in your life!
Nameste..Jo x
www.weightfreemind.com
joirwin@weightfreemind.com
