Control Your Weight Loss By Controlling Your Gut

Optimising Weight Loss: Tips To Improve Your Gut Health

A healthy gut is important for digestion, absorbing nutrients and maintaining a healthy immune system. When you prioritise your gut health, it reflects within your weight loss success. A healthy gut benefits your digestion, it helps level your metabolism and absorb nutrients. Benefiting weight loss by setting your body up to take on a sustainable and progressive journey to health and fitness.

When approaching health and fitness, an understanding about your body and how to prioritise certain areas of your health is key. At FitFarms we run workshops to teach the importance of knowledge behind weight loss and how to approach certain areas of nutrition and exercise in line with you.

What Foods Can Benefit Gut Health?

The best food you can start including in your diet to boost your gut health is mainly food containing probiotics. Probiotics, also known as ‘friendly bacteria’ are ideal for digestion support.

Yogurt and bananas. A perfect breakfast choice filled with probiotics and perfect for supporting your gut health! Bananas are especially great for restoring gut health. Improving digestion and metabolism, giving you a kickstart to the day and supporting weight loss.

Some great vegetables to start including in your diet for improving gut health include garlic, asparagus and fermented cabbage (sauerkraut). Fermented foods such as kefir, kimchi and cabbage are especially high in probiotics, and great to start adding into your diet where you can.

Small changes in types of food you include in each meal, can make massive shifts in your health and fitness. Cutting out bad habits such as smoking and drinking can also make a huge difference in improving digestion and general health.

What Exercises Improve Gut Health?

A range of exercises and physical fitness can benefit gut health, from low to high intensity. Walking is a great habit to fit into your daily schedule. A walk after a heavier meal can make significant changes to how your body digests your meal and absorbs nutrients.

Exercises like yoga, cycling and swimming also aid in digestion and benefit many other factors of your health, body and fitness levels. More intense exercise such as strength training also benefit in digestion. Building muscle supports maintaining a healthy metabolism and overall wellbeing and health.

Overall, balance is the priority. Maintaining regular physical activity while adding different foods into your diet that benefit your health, will support you in sustaining a long term weight loss, fitness and health journey.