Alright, on to part four of this series! Honestly, whether you’re still reading because you don’t want to end up with health issues like family members or you’re just ready to feel good and confident in your skin again this is the place to be, the place to transform your metabolism permanently, and naturally.
In this post, I’ll be teaching you what the low glycemic diet is and 3 simple tips you can walk away with today to start changing things for you, and your family.
Before I jump in, I want to say that I get a lot of emails from readers about the calories vs. metabolism. Go back and read that post and let it sink in if you haven't. I love getting messages with your thoughts and reasons why you need this change in your life. It’s inspiring, and I’m here to give you more. (You can always message me below!)
So far I've covered exactly how you solve fat loss using biology and that it’s not about cutting calories. I also showed how to start making this transformation and what that means if you need to balance your blood sugar or manage symptoms from pre/diabetes or insulin resistance.
In this post, I will take you deeper into this area and show you how incorporating this way of eating into your life can help you feel 10x better in your body.
To get started with transitioning to a low glycemic diet, let me walk you through an example of how blood sugar works:
- In the morning, you decide to be super healthy and make a juice. Since juice is primarily made up of simple carbs, it’s almost pure sugar, and drinking it causes your blood sugar to spike—fast.
- You have a rush of energy, feeling amazing. But you now have excess sugar in your body and now insulin is released (the fat-storing hormone) and decides to store all the excess sugar as fat.
- Once insulin pushes all of the sugar into fat storage, our blood sugar drops and this usually make us feel tired, groggy, “hungry”, and craving more food.
- When blood sugar crashes, you’ll reach for anything to rebalance it. And even grabbing another piece of fruit in this state is devasting because it’s all sugar and just shoots our blood sugar right back up. Insulin starts flooding in. Blood sugar drops. We eat again.
- This happens over and over, over a long period of time. For most, we stay in this cycle for 30 years until the function of insulin stops working properly and it becomes almost impossible to lose weight or keep it off.
So, what do you do?
Eat healthy protein, healthy fat, and healthy carbs (fiber!) with every meal. Eating these three together will drastically slow the uptake of sugar into the blood, so there’s a steady rise and fall. Insulin isn’t overproduced and your body can use the blood sugar as energy instead of storing it as fat. It only stores it as fat where there’s way too much blood sugar to deal with.
This is the key to weight loss, fat burning, sustained energy, and less cravings. When our blood sugar is balanced, we don’t have hunger pangs one or two hours after eating.
My 2 best tips for keeping your blood sugar steady throughout the day
- Healthy protein, healthy fat, healthy carb (fiber). Start incorporating all three into each meal. This will keep your blood sugar levels steady, and keep your body metabolism revved.
- Don’t skip meals. Skipping meals makes your body think it’s starving, so it tries to protect you my slowing down your metabolism, burning slower, and storing energy as fat in hopes it’ll be burned later.
These tips are great to keep blood sugar stable if that's your main goal. If your bigger goal is managing your weight, then timing, along with some other habits is extremely important. I'll share more on that in the next post.
We're covering a lot of ground... I'm impressed you're still reading! Take a deep breath. You don’t need to DO all of it right now though... you don’t need to KNOW all of it or feel like you need to get it just right.
This guide is about teaching you about blood sugar in the body and what you can start doing to finally lose inches permanently. It’s totally possible to have a metabolism that works for you by following the two tips above.
Also, a lot of people ask me if this diet is doable if you have a family and the answer is 100% yes. It’s really about the combination of foods and timing rather than the exact foods you eat. This is why I say this diet is super flexible. This leads me to my next note…
In the next and final part of this series, I’ll be sharing what to eat and how to eat it. It’s not complex at all, don’t worry.
You’re going to love this one. In fact, I think it will be your favorite in this series. I’m going to walk you through how to balance your blood sugar and increase your metabolism so you can start shedding pounds in a way you never have before. Click the button below to read it now.
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OK, let me share my list of hormone balanced foods!
