Now the Really REALLY important part. We all know sugar is bad for us, but most people do not know why.
When you know why, it makes avoiding it much easier when you know what it is doing to you. I also mentioned at the top of this article is that sugar is worse for you than fat.
So now, I will go into this in more detail as it can easily be the biggest reason people don’t lose weight.
What many people do not realise is that sugar is worse for you that fat. What sugar does, is raise your insulin levels and promotes fat storage. <– MAJOR
So your body uses sugar as energy whilst you go about your daily life. It doesn’t need to fat , so thinks.. what shall I do with this? So it stores it..and you put on weight.
Also, most people do not realise how much sugar they are having a day, even if you say.. but I don’t eat cake or chocolate.
It’s in more food than you think, right down to cereal bars that are promoted to help you lose weight or advertised as .. again.. fat free or … only 120 calories for example.
The calories are in a way, irrelevant if it’s got sugar as that sugar will spike your insulin levels and any food you eat for the next 24 hours will end up being stored as far more than if you didn’t have the sugar.
The trouble is since the 1970’s the world got turned upside down and the governments advertised a low fat died as heart disease was on the rise.
What happened since then is that heart disease increased dramatically as soon as the low fat diet was introduced, but why? It all boils down to one main factor – They replaced fat with sugar.
Have a look at the image below which is from a well known brand of low fat yogurt. Notice the fat is very low but the carbohydrates is high, then look at the sugars!.
Pretty much all sugar, to keep the taste as there is no fat.
What you can also see, is in the ingredients they have Fructose.. which is another name for sugar but if you read the label.. would you notice it, or notice it more if it said sugar? 
Weight out 12grams of sugar on a pair of scales at home and it works out to be a pretty heafty amount. Say for example, you have a couple of yogurts a day for a month.
That’s 12 x 30 x 2 which is 720grams which is approaching a KG of sugar per month.
That’s alot! and thats only just counting low fat or no fat yogurts. Add in chocolate, cake, biscuits, alot of the cereals to all the other processed food you don’t realise contains sugar.
Look at the ingredients of the food you buy and if sugar is in the top 3 of the list of ingredients, don’t buy it.
Anyway, Without fat in a food product, the food item itself soon looses its taste and texture and can easily become like cardboard, so to compensate for this, food manufactures replace the fat with sugar to keep the taste there.
Then they trick you on adverts saying, it low fat or no fat but people do not realise that sugar is so so much worse.
Any food you see in the fridge in supermarkets, on the cake isle or anywhere else you see fat free or low fat advertises is most likely to have a huge amount of sugar to compensate.
This includes the very popular, low fat yogurt which when eaten, are preventing you from losing weight but are advertised to help you lose weight.
When you listen to the tv adverts next for low fat yogurts or cereal for example, listen to their wording.
Most likely they will say – “eating this could help you lose weight” , they never “eating this will help you lose weight” so because they are not lying, the tv advertising agencies let them get away with it.
The same goes for.. it tastes wondering and contains no fat.. but it’s what they don’t tell you which is harming you and preventing you from losing weight.
Another example of marketing to trick you into eating sugar is a particular UK advert that says eat this breakfast produce for breakfast and lunch and help you lose weight.
Of course it will, because you are eating far less calories but – The cereal itself has a great deal of sugar in it.
You could eat cucumber for breakfast and lunch and lose weight so the cereal itself has nothing in it that justifies their statement. Just marketing for you and people who do not read between the lines.
For a great dessert, which not just satisfies a sugar craving but is damn good for you is Greek Yogurt and blueberries.
I have the Total Greek Yogurt , either 0% or 2% fat and frozen blueberries from Tesco.
It tastes lush as the Welsh say heh Total Greek Yogurt from Fage is one of the very few 0% Yogurt’s that doesn’t get pumped full of sugar and Greek Yogurt in general is very good for you, unlike all the other yogurt our there which is flippin bad for you.
I have the 2% Total Greek Yogurt as it’s good fat and does taste creamier but also, your body does need fat to keep healthy.
Again, the media confuse people by supplying them with the wrong or steer you in the wrong direction.
You can also get small pots of 0% for £1 in Tesco at least, so great for taking to work.
You can also get small pots of 0% for £1 in Tesco at least, so great for taking to work.
At home, the large tubs of 2% Total is perfect as the natural fat is good fat, which our internal organs actually require and tastes a little better to.
So why does all this sugar make me put on weight? or stop me losing weight? The answer is Insulin.
When you eat a steady healthy diet that has sugar from natural sources such as fruit (blue berries for example) and vegetables, all good.
Add in processed sugar that’s put into food from low fat yogurt to ice cream and cakes then isulin comes into the equation.
Very Important – Read this next part a couple of times!
What happens is your sugar levels rise due to the sugar in the food you are eating so your body produces insulin to come along and lower your blood sugar levels.
The catch is, as your body is using the sugar for fuel, and insulin is playing its part, the body sees fat as not needed for fuel as it has the sugar, and stores it.
Therefore, you put on weight. For years, I ate normal food but also a great deal of biscuits, cake and chocolate and thought – “ahh its ok, I will burn it off tomorrow”
…but because my body was using the sugar, I did not realise I was fighting such a losing battle. In June 2012 I decided I would cut down the cake and chocolate, and lost weight pretty damn quickly.
I was still eating food I should not have at the time, but because I was eating far less sugar, my body used the sugar and fat as fuel, instead of just sugar.
Now there’s more to it than that, as I mentioned good fat, bad fat.
There are also calories and exercise which benefits a great deal but if you have several stone in weight to lose, reducing sugar will help you lose weight just by doing that by itself.
Then you can add in other methods to lower your weight but reduce that sugar, and see for yourself.
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