FIBRE
Be careful with carbs.

You need 25 grams of fibre in your diet each day to aid the efficient working of your digestive system.You can obtain this from fruit and vegetables. Despite what you read, fresh fruit doesn't put weight on. If however you are falling short of the recommended 25 grams you can get the remainder from wholegrains or a supplement such as Herbalife Fibrebond but when eating wholegrains do not lose sight of your total calorie intake.

Carbohydrate is a main source of energy, the body breaks it down into glucose which it uses in large amounts in your brain and muscles.

The two groups of Carbohydrates are simple sugars and complex carbohydrates.

Examples of simple sugars are; table sugar, honey, jam, chocolate, biscuits etc. white bread and cakes are also high in simple carbohydrates. Lots of processed foods are high in simple sugars, so you should read food labels carefully.You should avoid eating simple sugars whenever possible since they have little or no nutritional value, are digested and enter your bloodstream very quickly, which causes your blood glucose level to rise quickly and then decline sharply. As a result they can make hunger pangs worse.

A lot of what are called Trigger Foods contain simple sugars. These are foods that can gain a hold over you. Have you ever opened a packet of biscuits, eaten one and put the rest away? or did you eat several, or even all of them? Even though you weren't hungry. These days this is called snacking. Snacking is a phenomenon that has evolved over the last few decades and now has a large part of the food industry dedicated to producing snack foods to enable us to indulge in it.

Raspberry filled sweet biscuits

Complex carbohydrates are in the cell walls of fruits and vegetables and in the husks of various grains. They take much longer to digest and provide energy over a much longer period.

This is why athletes eat large amounts of pasta, peas, lentils, oats and other good wholegrain sources of complex carbohydrates. But athletes are careful to match their intake to the amount of energy their bodies are going to burn off in their events and their training programs.

Wholegrain bread

If like us, you are not an athlete and don't have a lifestyle full of grueling physical exercise you need to take care and should eat carbohydrates in limited amounts because they can be very high in calories. For example a single slice of wholegrain bread can contain 100 calories. Beans, rice and other starchy vegetables have 200 to 250 calories per cupful compared with cupfuls of spinach or brocolli having 40 calories and more fibre.

Having a Herbalife core nutrition Formula 1 Shake for breakfast is a quick, convenient and inexpensive way to set yourself up with a balanced meal to start the day off, fully energised, with its formulation of vitamins, minerals and complex carbohydrates.