How eating Fibre can help you lose weight (and how to get more in your diet!)

Can Fibre help you lose weight? Fibre is an incredibly important part of a healthy eating plan. Not only for keeping you ‘regular’ and for general bowel health but it has also been found to be incredibly important in weight loss and weight management.

Fibre Up Ladies: There are more benefits than you may think to eating fibre!

What is fibre?

Fibre refers to a type of carbohydrate that keeps our digestive systems healthy. Fibre is parts of plant food that our guts cannot digest. It is found in fruits, vegetables, legumes and wholegrain breads and cereals.

Different Types of Fibre

Soluble fibre helps to slow the absorption of glucose, it lowers blood cholesterol and slows down the emptying process so your body fells fuller and has time to absorb nutrients more effectively. Foods that are high in soluble fibre include whole grains like oats, barley, quinoa and buckwheat, legumes sees, fruits like apples and citrus and vegetables.

Insoluble fibre helps the body to absorb water to soften what is in our bowels and encourage regular bowel movements. It also provides feelings of fullness so you are less likely to overeat, alleviates constipation and helps feed our healthy microbiome.

How can Fibre help you lose weight?

Fibre-rich foods absorb more water, which helps to keep us feeling full. Fibre also slows glucose absorption, which assists in blood glucose control to prevent low blood sugar levels. These can lead to needing sugar hit. that how Fibre can help you lose weight!

Fibre also helps keep our bowels regular and that makes sure our food is being digested at an even rate.

Why is this important?

To absorb nutrients, feed our healthy gut bacteria and balance blood sugar levels. If things slow down, we are at risk of fermenting the food we have eaten in our colon, releasing toxins to be reabsorbed in our body, which will cause inflammation and feeding bacteria that we don’t want to thrive.

Diets high in fibre have been shown to reduce our risk of heart disease and Type 2 Diabetes. A high-fibre diet is also key in managing weight and weight loss because high-fibre foods keep the body feeling fuller for longer.

Typical High-Fibre Meals

Breakfast

Porridge, quinoa, chia seed pudding, wholemeal bread with baked beans, porridge with LSA or dried fruit.

Try these recipes from the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge.

Warming Slow Cooked Quinoa Porridge with Apple and Cinnamon

Snacks

Crackers made of seeds, apples and nut butter, brown rice pudding, hummus with veggie sticks, back bean brownie.

Nutty Black Bean Brownies

Lunches and Dinners

Vegetarian meals based on lentils or legumes, brown rice dishes, quinoa tabbouleh, cabbage slaw, cauliflower mash.

High Fibre Vegetarian Curry

How much fibre do we need each day?

• Women aged 19-60 years need 25g per day
• Pregnant women 28g per day
• Lactating women 30g per day

The increased requirement during pregnancy and lactation is due to the slowing down of the digestive tract. This happens as our bodies become more effective in absorbing nutrients, such as calcium. But what that also means is that our bodies absorb more water from our foods, making our poops harder. I had shocking constipation with both bubs and so was almost like a vegetable compost machine chowing on carrots trying to up my fibre. Another delicious cauliflower recipes!

Check out These 10 Easy Ways to Boost your Fibre Intake Each Day!

Try this for a Fibre Boost!

The Healthy Mummy Smoothie range has 6 grams of fibre per serve. Add fruits and other yummies to your smoothie to up the fibre content further. Here are some ideas:

• 1 medium banana gives you 2.4g of fibre
• 1 cup of frozen raspberries gives you 6g of fibre
• 1 medium pear (no skin) gives you 3g of fibre
• 1 tbsp of rolled oats gives you around 9g fibre
• 1 tbsp of dried coconut gives you 15g of fibre

Have you tried CONTROL X? It contains soluble FIBRE to keep you FULLER FOR LONGER! 

We all love food and eating less can be tough, Control X is here to help you. It is a breakthrough product designed to put you back in control of your food consumption. It is natural, effective and will change the way you reach your goals!

Control X is a delicious drink that has been designed with glucomannan to help you feel fuller for longer.

Reasons to LOVE Control X

• Feel fuller for longer*
• Reduces hunger pangs^
• Reduce bloating
• Contains fibre
• Contains Vitamin B5, Vitamin E, Niacin to support normal fat, protein, carbohydrate metabolism and helps to reduce tiredness and fatigue.
• Comes in convenient sachets
• Only 6 calories per sachet
• Vitamin and mineral blend
• Contains no added sugar
• Delicious orange flavour
• No added aspartame, laxatives or caffeine

How Does it Work?

Each sachet contains an ingredient called glucomannan which is a form of soluble fibre found naturally in fruit, vegetables and oats.

In the stomach, glucomannan turns into a gel and slows stomach emptying which means your healthy meal remains in the stomach for longer which can help you feel fuller for longer, therefore, reducing snacking between meals.

As glucomannan fibre passes through the gut, it clears the digestive tract along the way.  It contains no aspartame, laxatives or caffeine and is free from added sugars!

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