This is an interesting film about reducing your weight

This is an interesting film about reducing your weight with nutrition, told in a very simple and easy to understand language. It's surprising what a large role carbohydrates play in our weight and blood sugar levels. So even if you're not trying to reduce your weight, you will enjoy this video.

I'm going to talk to you about how to reduce your weight. If you eat too much, especially of the wrong foods, then your body weight will be too high especially if you don't exercise that extra weight off. When we are trying to lose weight, carbohydrates tend to be one of our biggest enemies because it is something that we tend to overeat on.

When we're looking at eating our carbohydrates, we need to get those in balance with our protein in order to keep our blood sugar levels regulated. When we eat carbohydrates, things like bread, rice, pasta, potatoes and even fruits and vegetables, then we turn our carbohydrates into sugar. Our digestive system breaks down the carbohydrates and releases the sugar for glucose.

If you've eaten too many of the refined carbohydrates, they release their sugar very quickly and our blood sugar will then peak. Once the blood sugar peaks, because that's dangerous for the body, we release a sugar storage hormone called insulin. Insulin will quickly drop down blood sugar levels.

First by storing them away in the glycine stores ready for exercise and secondly, if it peaks too high, too fast, it can be stored as body fat. Now, fat is functional, fat is structural, if you eat the good fats that come from nuts, seeds and oily fish, you're likely to use those to balance your hormones to support your nervous system and brain health, for supporting fertility, all sorts of things they're needed for in the body. But the fats that we store in our bodies will maintain themselves until we work quite hard to lose them.

If we look at what our plate should look like, roughly our plate should be about the size of our two hands and half of our plate should be made up of vegetables, about a quarter of our plate should be of the whole grain fiber-rich starch carbohydrates and about a quarter of our plate of the lean low saturated fat proteins. At breakfast time, you can get away with more starchy carbohydrates because your body has been fasting overnight. So, it could be something like porridge with some berries added in and maybe some hemp seeds for the good fats, the essential fatty acids and the protein.

At lunchtime, look at covering half of your plate with vegetables. You can have as many of those as you like, you don't need to restrict those. About a quarter protein and a quarter whole grain starchy carbohydrates.

A snack in the afternoon and a snack in the morning before lunch. Then, for your evening meal, cut out the starchy carbohydrates unless you're going to be exercising in the evening and instead, replace that with vegetables and have three quarters of your plate made up of vegetables and just a quarter of the plate made up of good lean protein.