Many of us would like to lose some weight, particularly after traditional days of indulgence such as Christmas or Pancake Day.
What you eat has a real impact on your weight and, while some foods like fruit and vegetables can help, other can lead to weight gain. These include things processed and refined products.
So one of the foods that can make a real difference to your weight loss is - and you won't be surprised - sugar, reports WalesOnline.
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According to the NHS website as a nation we eat far too much sugar, 700g of it per week, an average of 140 teaspoons per person. The NHS encourages people to look at the nutritional labels to tell you how much sugar is in what you're eating, and advises us to buy more greens and ambers and fewer reds in our weekly shop.
A sure way of cutting down on your sugar intake is through cutting out fizzy drinks. Nearly a quarter of the added sugar in our diets comes from sugary drinks, according to the NHS.
Another way to reduce your sugar intake is through cutting out sugar in your tea and coffee and either gradually reducing it or cutting it out completely and swapping to a sweetener instead.
Many foods that are a part of our diet we don't consider to be sweet but actually contain a large amount of sugar, such as shop-bought soup, condiments and jar pasta sauces which contain more than 13g of sugar including added sugar, which is the equivalent to three teaspoons of sugar.
The second food to consider reducing your intake of is starchy carbohydrates such as potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and cereals. Whilst starchy food is a good source of energy and adds a range of other nutrients to our diet, where you can the NHS advises us to choose wholegrain varieties.
This makes wholegrain starchy foods a good choice as you are trying to lose weight.
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