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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
Who survived the liquid diet?
October 8, 2008
I lasted two hours on Slim-fast. I think it made me hungry. I was ready to eat a half of cow. I did not realize what was in the drink and why I was so hungry. It was not good that I was lactose intolerant too. There are people who successfully lost weight on liquid diets. The most famous was Oprah. My sister did well on the liquid diet also. I really applaud their discipline. They did all the rights things. They did not fail the diet, the diet failed them.
Meal replacement diets set everyone up for long-term failure. It is more severe than calorie restriction. Ninety-five percent gain back the weight in one year. Ninety-seven percent gain back the weight in two years. It is an unsuccessful quick fix. Most of the weight loss is muscle, so you end up will a lower weight and a higher body fat percentage. Since it cannot be done long-term, the weight gained back is generally fat instead of muscle.
Most meal replacements are filled with vitamins. Unfortunately it is not nutritionally balanced. They are also filled with a lot of sugar. Punishing yourself with these meal replacements is not worth the fatigue and hunger that come with it. I am not against all shake products, but I am against using them as meal replacements.
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
