08/04/2021
Have you had an Easter chocolate Eggstravaganza!
Have you eaten too many Easter eggs and ended up feeling yuk? Are you suffering from a sugar hangover?
In Britain, 80 million chocolate eggs are bought and consumed each year!!
It hasn't always been this way. A few decades ago there might have been a handful of chocolate eggs: a nice one from your Mum, perhaps, but that was all. Nowadays the supermarket shelves are full of Easter eggs which were just too exciting to ignore. Easter is definitely not the easiest time to watch your waistline.
Unfortunately, while eating real eggs is pretty healthy, as they are packed full of vitamins and high quality protein, the same is not true of chocolate ones. Easter eggs are made of chocolate and often full of other sugar coated, additives and colouring laden fillers.
Chocolate makes us feel good, which is why so many of us eat too much of it! An average milk chocolate Easter egg (or bar for that matter) contains a combination of sugar, soothing creamy fat and caffeine from the cocoa.
When we eat our chocolate egg we get a sugar hit and short term surge in energy, plus caffeine hit which releases adrenaline. Invariably our bodies try to stabilise this enormous sugar surge using insulin and it starts us on a blood sugar roller coaster of low and highs.
You would probably feel better about yourself if you had eaten eggs made from dark chocolate, since there are some health benefits to eating the dark stuff (including a slight lowering of blood pressure), but the truth is most of what people eat is milk chocolate. Fat and sugar!! Eating moderate amounts of chocolate has certain health benefits, but certainly not in the quantities we tend to consume over the Easter period.
If you’ve unwrapped a few too many eggs over Easter period, we at Practically Slim can help you to lose some of that excess baggage. If you want to put the excesses of Easter behind you, why not give us a call and see what you can achieve?” To find out more about Practically Slim call Heather Newham on 07970 252 647 or visit www.practicallyslim.com
Practically Slim’s highly effective programmes combine an easy-to-use plan designed for the individual using nutritionally balanced soups, shakes and bars along with conventional food with support, to help you lose weight quickly and safely, and maintain that weight loss.
