Stable blood sugar is particularly important if you want to lose weight and/or maintain your ideal weight.

Firstly, it is recommended to consume protein-rich and healthy main meals.

Secondly, it is good to be familiar with insulin and chromium, two nutrients that have important roles in the carbohydrate metabolism.

There are eight different B vitamins – thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), biotin (B8), folic acid (B9), and cobalamin (B12)

B vitamins activate a host of different enzyme processes in the body, some of which are important for the fat and carbohydrate metabolism, digestion (including the production of gastric juice), stress threshold, and the nervous system.

The thyroid gland stimulates cellular oxygen uptake, which has a direct impact on your metabolism. Many people have thyroid disorders without being aware of it, and there are many people who receive medical treatment for a diagnosed thyroid problem and still don’t feel right.

Q10 is a vitamin-like coenzyme that helps convert food into energy with help from the oxygen we breathe.

Humans are able to synthesize most of the Q10 required for this purpose. Our endogenous synthesis of the compound peaks around the age of 20 years and slowly decreases from that point onward. Many people are able to feel the subsequent energy reduction when they reach their 40s and 50s.

Green tea is different from regular black tea, in that it is not fermented. Therefore, green tea contains more nutrients, and even though it contains a little caffeine, it has a somewhat smaller but more stable effect on blood sugar levels.

When you are physically active, your body primarily burns carbohydrate and fat, and your muscle mass is maintained or maybe even increased.
This was effectively demonstrated in a study of overweight people who lost 8-10 percent of their body weight, while increasing their muscle mass by a few percent.

Carnitine is an amino acid that helps carry lipids from the bloodstream into the mitochondria, which are the small, cellular ”powerhouses” that make energy. You can compare carnitine to a doorman that allows fat to enter the cells where the fat is then converted into energy.

A half to a whole teaspoon of cinnamon daily may help control blood sugar levels – both in healthy people and diabetics.
This is highly important for those who want to lose weight or maintain their ideal weight, as large blood sugar fluctuations increase the risk that excess calories in the blood are stored as fat.

It can be difficult to understand why it is so difficult to lose weight or to maintain your ideal weight. You probably feel that you are doing everything you possibly can to try to eat less and exercise more, but the bathroom scale is not exactly a friend of yours. As frustrating as this may be, you could be overlooking something.

Check below to see if you recognize some of the common problems. Also, you may find some inspiring advice on how to lose weight

You drink milk or juice with your meal

• You are getting unnecessary calories without fiber.

Advice  Drink water (you can add a little lemon). It is good for your digestion and reduces your food uptake.

You drink tea/coffee with milk, cafe latte, cocoa milk or ice tea

• Milk contains excess calories, and there are particularly many in cafe latte. Both cocoa milk and ice tea contain a lot of sugar.

Advice  Try drinking black coffee/green tea, possibly with a bit of cinnamon that has a good effect on your metabolism.

You exercise once or twice weekly and cannot understand why you are not losing weight

• It is highly frustrating if, in your own opinion, there is no coherence between how much you weigh and how much you exercise.

Advice  Be careful not to consume fast (and fattening) carbohydrates after you exercise. Remember that it is important also to engage in many types of less physically challenging activities during the day. Get a pedometer or use
your smartphone to make sure that you walk 5,000 - 10,000 steps daily on average. Dial down your stress level.