Tips to Balance Blood Sugar for Weight Loss and Optimal Health

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A steady metabolism is essential for maintaining better health as well as maintaining or losing weight. It helps your body fight off fatigue, improves heart health, leads to a better hormone balance, decreases the risk of kidney damage, and much more. Our bodies are designed to be self-balancing. Meaning our bodies will shiver when we are cold to raise our inner temperature, or sweat when we are hot to lower our body temperature. In short, our bodies have a balance to uphold.

Central to that balance is your blood sugar levels. Maintaining correct levels of blood sugar is essential to keep many of your body’s processes functioning at their best and to prevent from developing more problems due to a decreased metabolism. Blood sugar levels are also critical if you are trying to lose weight and burn fat, as insulin spikes direct the body to store fat rather than burning it for energy. There are different effects of low and high blood sugar, none of them positive. Keeping your blood sugar levels stable takes work and effort; these tips should help you be more aware of how to control blood sugar levels.

So What Can You Do to Balance Those Blood Sugar Levels?

1. Engage in Physical Activities, Regularly
When in doubt, exercise. Exercising or working out is often a cure-all. It will help you feel happier, more alert, and most importantly it will keep those blood sugar levels at bay. Be sure to make exercise a routine so that your body becomes used to it.

2. Reduce Carbohydrates
If you wish to maintain normal blood sugar levels, by all means avoid carbohydrates. However, when this is not possible, refer yourself to the Glycemic Index. This particular number, assigned to food, shows how fast any carbohydrate converts into glucose (sugar) in your body. If you want to find out the glycemic number of any food, just google “Glycemic index of […].” If at all possible combine your carb intake with fiber, in order to hinder the rate that the sugar is absorbed by your body.

3. Increase Your Intake of Vegetables and Protein
If you are eating vegetables, then you are most likely avoiding carbohydrates. In addition, getting the right vitamins, nutrients, and proteins helps your body stay focused on maintaining your blood sugar levels.

4. Throw Away the Corn Syrup
If you wish to have stable blood sugar levels, then throw away anything with corn syrup, no matter what name it goes by. Corn syrup does a very wonderful job at destroying the beta cells in the pancreas. What does this mean for you? Well, these cells are crucial in producing insulin which helps maintain your blood sugar levels.

5. Cleanse Your Body
Sometimes, blood sugar off-balances are caused by unwanted parasites in your body. Most of the time these are not serious and can be flushed out with almost any natural, over-the-counter body cleanse. Speaking with a health professional before proceeding with a cleanse is recommended.

6. Do not Skip Meals
One of the most important things you can do for your body is to maintain a consistent, healthy diet. Skipping a meal means your body does not get the nutrients that it is used to receiving, leaving it prone to blood sugar drops. Eating regularly helps put your body on a schedule and ensures it does what it can to keep your blood sugar balanced.

7. Be Wary of Alcohol
Drinking alcohol can lead to your blood sugar dropping up to 24 hours afterwards. Most of time, this happens because your body is working hard to get rid of the alcohol. Whatever you do, do not drink unless you have eaten a full meal beforehand. In addition, be aware that sometimes low blood sugar side-effects such as dizziness can be confused with being drunk.

8. Always Plan Ahead
If you are prone to unexpected drops in your blood sugar, always pack a quick snack with you. You never know where life might take you and having a granola bar handy, can keep your from passing out in times of dire need.

Justin Arndt
Justin Arndt is the Senior Content Editor at Lose Weight Fast.