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How do carbs affect diet and weight loss?
October 14, 2008
Most of us are not born carbohydrate sensitive. Not understanding how food influences our body has caused an increase in metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Many people are in a pre-diabetic state without realizing it.
One of the greatest causes of carbohydrate sensitivity is the popularity of low carb dieting. The body’s insulin response becomes ineffective when these diets are prolonged. Once you start eating carbohydrates again, your blood sugar rises too quickly. As a result, your body does not respond to insulin. The excess carbs are then stored as fat. In turn your body fat percentage increases.
When you are carbohydrate sensitive, even when you eat something that is healthy for example a salad, chicken breast and a small roll; your body will respond to the small roll as if you ate half of a chocolate cake. Carbohydrate sensitive can come from yo-yo dieting and eating junk all of your life.
I cringe when I see parents give their children constant processed foods that are filled with sugar. Even though the children don’t have a weight problem, those constant carbs and sugar are setting their children up to be carbohydrate sensitive. This is one of the reason we are seeing the age of adult onset diabetes getting lower and lower.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
The first rule of weight loss success
October 10, 2008
The majority of diets do not focus on body composition. The first rule of healthy weight loss is muscle dictates metabolism. When I coached my husband in weight management he lost thirty-three pounds in 2 months. It took me twice as long to lose the same amount of weight. What I like best about coaching males is that they see results fast. What I hate the most about coaching males is that they see results fast. It is so unfair.
The male body naturally has more muscle then the female body. Muscle burns calories. The object of healthy weight loss is to maintain muscle mass while losing fat. Most diets fail at this. The more fat you carry, the fewer calories your body will burn. It is easier to gain or regain weight in the form of body fat.
Understanding body composition will help you reach your weight loss goals. Many women shun away weight training, since muscle weighs more than fat they think they will gain weight. Women should pay attention to the inches they lost first. Eventually the pounds will come off. I recommend using a scale that will measure body fat. Your body fat percentage and waist circumference will dictate how healthy you really are.
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
With so many diets, why are we so fat?
September 24, 2008
Weight management is a billion dollar industry. We spend a lot of money on weight-loss, but now the government is saying we have an obesity epidemic. There is some good information available, unfortunately there is a lot of bad information. I don’t think it is a question of will. Many of us have done some very weird things in order to lose weight. How about the cabbage soup diet? How many of you tried the grapefruit diet? I have a friend who lost 17 pounds on the maple syrup cleanse. She only had a water, vinegar and maple syrup mixture for 21 days. It takes a lot of will power to do that cleanse, but know the weight is back.
To be honest, you did not fail the diet; the diet failed you. The problem is that diets cannot be maintained over a lifetime. I am sure if my friend could drink vinegar and maple syrup for the rest of her life, she would be slim and thin. No one can do that. How many of you had a doctor tear off a 1000 calorie diet sheet that they got from a pharma company that sold diabetes medicine? They have had those sheets for years, but we are still fat.
There are five fat factors. Read my next blog for fat factor number 1.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
Confessions of a recovering “yo-yo” dieter
September 22, 2008
Ever since high school, I have mastered the art of dieting. When I was young my goal was to achieve a certain look. I was very thin, but dieting for girls was cool. As a teenager the starvation diet worked very well for me. The experts said if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. That is what I did.
In college aerobics became the rage. After gaining the freshman 15 I had to do something. Oh yeah, every time I wanted to lose weight I would still starve myself. My senior year consisted of diet coke and yogurt.
After college I started to pay more attention to the “experts”. The answer to my health concerns was OAT BRAN. I bought everything that had the word oat bran on the box. I even forced my neice and nephew to eat oat bran donuts for dessert. They still talk about me for that one. From oat bran I went to shakes, low fat and then low carb. If it was on Oprah, I did it.
I had great success with 90% of the diets I attempted. Although I only lasted two weeks on Weight Watchers and one day on Slimfast, for the most part I was a very good dieter. Then I hit forty and no matter what I did, I could not lose a pound. There is a reason why diets don’t work and there is a smart way to lose weight and keep it off.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
