Everyone that has ever tried to lose any weight will know just hard it really is, watching every piece of food that enters your mouth, wondering if that will add on an extra pound or have you got it just right and amaze yourself in time for the next weigh in? People that are trying to lose weight must really hate this time of year as shop windows are often filled with cakes shaped like bats and biscuits covered in chocolate and made to look like spiders that’s not to mention the pungent sweet smell of toffee covered apples. So what can we do to stop the temptation of dipping into our kid’s sweetie jar?  One thing worth remembering is that processed sugar will slow down your metabolism; this in turn will have an effect on your digestive system making it harder to burn off excess fat. Eating fruit and drinking water will often give you that full feeling so there is no need to dip into the cookie jar.

What else can be done to protect our waistline?

As we all know, as long as there are sweets in your house you will be tempted to sneak just the 1 which will lead to 2 and so on, do you really want to have all those calories sitting in your cupboards? Try to think of the consequences of eating too much chocolate, the headaches, feeling sick and the expanding waistline. One of the hardest things to do is to try and give the sweets away, take them to work give them to friends, try and get them out of your house. At the end of the day we are only human and we will be tempted to eat our way through bags and bags of sweets.