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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
Low carb or not low carb diet
October 9, 2008
One of my most successful diets was a variation of the “low carb” craze. I tried Atkins and lost 10 pounds in two weeks. I even put my husband on it. He was so cranky, for the sake of our marriage I asked him to stop. When you are not a meat eater, it is a very hard diet to follow. I saw a more sophisticated low carb diet on Oprah (it must be good, since it was on Oprah). I followed it for almost a year. I thought it was my last diet. It was not until I stopped, that I realized I developed some bad habits. In the process I destroyed my metabolism.
The low carbohydrate diet has unnecessary restrictions of fiber rich foods. It is also very high in fat. To be honest, no one has ever got fat eating broccoli, which is off every low carb eating plan. You can’t eat broccoli, but you can have all the bacon you want. It doesn’t even make sense. Like other fad diets, the low carb diet cannot be followed long term. High protein and high fat results in muscle and water loss. You can also forget about going to the bathroom. I admit you can lose weight on this diet. But, you cannot have lifetime healthy results.
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
