Two types of foods to remove from your diet if your goal is instant weight loss

03.03.2022 - 14:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk

Experts have shared two types of food than can have a significant effect on weight loss if you are able to cut them out of your diet.

With Christmas, Valentine's Day and Pancake Tuesday out of the way, we've only got Easter to take care of before the summer season comes rolling in.

Therefore, it is coming up to that period of the year when people start thinking about making healthier life choices.

Many foods have a certain impact on your weight and healthy fats, fruit and vegetables can help assist weight loss whilst processed and refined products can make you gain weight.

You probably won’t be surprised to learn what they are, with the first one of them being sugar, report Wales Online.

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