…is how a two pound box of chocolates can make a women gain five pounds!
Have you ever said to yourself, I hardly ate anything so why did I gain 5 lbs?
The mystery of the body is no mystery at all really it is simply supply and demand. Hormones, INSULIN being the biggest culprit of all, causes us to gain weight. This is a very simplified version – say you eat a white baked potato,which have a very HIGH glycemic index, but because it is not enough to cover the bolus of insulin that has just been released into the body(about 100units) the insulin goes into fat stores. You have been born with a predetermined number of fat cells, but there is nothing that says they can not be filled up to huge fat cells, those fat cells are the extra insulin you did not cover with your baked potato.
It is not so bad you ate the potato but the fact that the potato has pushed the pancreas to push out insulin and the insulin can not be used up to it’s full potential. 15 grams of carbohydrates = 1 unit of insulin, so one may say that in order for you to use up that bolus of insulin you need to eat 1500 grams of carbohydrates, oh my goodness, wonder why we get fat? 80-120 is a normal blood sugar. In order for you to keep that blood sugar @ a constant level you should eat (6) small meals with 2cups of veggies, proteins 3oz (women) 4oz(men) don’t forget fat(5gms)
Spiking your blood sugar makes you hyper and dropping your blood sugar makes you tired, the body doesn’t like tired for long so it says to you EAT, MANGIA, quickly, please I’m starving,hhhhheeeeelllllpppp mmmmmmeeeee.
What do you do? Pop a bonbon, bag of chips, a twinkie (which by the way will last longer than the end of time) don’t eat it!. But you get my drift right? Steady as she goes and stay on a good course, exercise daily, and you will not need to eat things that make the blood sugar go POP.
May I take this time to say this I eat much more now than I did on any diet I was ever on, and I don’t gain weight. The difference of this lifestyle change is that FIBER is most constant friend. I am not a veggie person but once I understood the way the body uses food then I GOT IT, Once I understood that exercise is not just for the jocks of the world but for us to sustain human growth and development, I GOT IT. Once I understood that a good healthy outlook on life, joy, friends, family, things you like to do all contribute to weight loss results, I GOT IT.
We maybe made up of thousands of thousands of cells the bottom line is we are human and we all need to feel our worth, in looking good, feeling good, and doing good.move the mass, savor the flavor, hug the mug(you)
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