Your body ends up craving and you respond by eating more of the same old rubbish, easily piling on the pounds.
Lack of exercise
Exercise burns calories and also increases muscle mass. Muscle burns more calories when at rest than other body tissue. If you don’t move that bum, then watch the weight creep on. You might not feel like doing exercise at first but find something that you love, get started, and you will be on a natural high as well as trim and slim.
Cravings
Added sugars in food is one of the worst advents of our modern society. You crave sugar if your blood-sugar levels are constantly out of balance by eating sugary foods; if you have nutrient deficiencies, yeast overgrowths; and if you eat a diet high in refined, processed carbohydrates. You end up becoming the victim of a roller coaster of soaring and plummeting sugar levels. This is why if you eat just one chocolate cookie, you crave more. The sugar gives you the rush, but an energy drop is never far behind. The best way to beat the sugar fix is to go cold turkey: no sugary foods or sweets for a month. The herb astragalus can give you a natural energy lift (500 mg daily).
Eat a balanced, nutrient-rich diet to break the cycle of cravings, sugar, and weight gain. Eating well not only nourishes your body but regulates your blood-sugar levels so that you don’t get those lows.
Certain foods help to regulate blood-sugar levels and tame sugar cravings. Whole grains and fresh veggies are great choices. Yams, sweet potatoes, and squash help to curb a sweet tooth, too.
Support your system with live nutrient-dense superfoods like spirulina or liquid algae. A liquid mineral supplement that contains chromium, manganese, and magnesium is important, too. Deficiencies of any one of these three minerals cause sugar cravings (more than 80 percent of chromium is destroyed in the processing of foods). I often ask my clients to take half a teaspoon of L-glutamine powder before meals to inhibit carbohydrate cravings.
Finally, eat smaller, more frequent meals and regular healthy snacks through the day, especially mid-morning and mid-afternoon, when blood-sugar levels may fluctuate.
Insulin imbalances
When we eat, glucose from the digestion of carbohydrates is absorbed into the blood. At this point, blood-sugar levels are raised. This sends a signal to the pancreas to release insulin. The insulin’s job is to carry the glucose from the blood to the cells in order to bring blood-sugar levels back to normal. Once in the cells, glucose can be used for energy or stored for later as glycogen.
In a healthy diet this process works perfectly. However, excessive consumption of refined carbohydrates, particularly sugary foods, upsets the balance and everything starts to go haywire. Your body has to produce increasing amounts of insulin to keep blood-sugar levels normal. Eventually, you become resistant to the insulin, so more needs to be produced. Once this happens, the glycogen stores become full and glucose is converted to fat.
You are then caught in a vicious cycle where the more unstable your blood-sugar levels, the more prone you will be to craving sweets and unrefined carbohydrates like bread, and the easier it is to lay down fat. But this does not need to be the case.
I started going to the gym last year and I started watching Gillian’s programs to lose some weight. I was a dress size 14 weighing 165 pounds. Since listening to Gillian’s advice I have gone down to a dress size 8 to 10 and I now weigh 130 pounds! I suffered badly with a lack of confidence and losing the weight has really helped. I now have my life back.
Glucose tolerance self-check
If you recognize three or more of the symptoms listed below, you may have a problem with the regulation of insulin and glucose in your body.
Difficulty in concentrating.
Excessive consumption of caffeine, chocolate, or cigarettes.
Excessive sweating.
Excessive thirst.
Extreme difficulty in getting out of bed.
Falling
Lack of exercise
Exercise burns calories and also increases muscle mass. Muscle burns more calories when at rest than other body tissue. If you don’t move that bum, then watch the weight creep on. You might not feel like doing exercise at first but find something that you love, get started, and you will be on a natural high as well as trim and slim.
Cravings
Added sugars in food is one of the worst advents of our modern society. You crave sugar if your blood-sugar levels are constantly out of balance by eating sugary foods; if you have nutrient deficiencies, yeast overgrowths; and if you eat a diet high in refined, processed carbohydrates. You end up becoming the victim of a roller coaster of soaring and plummeting sugar levels. This is why if you eat just one chocolate cookie, you crave more. The sugar gives you the rush, but an energy drop is never far behind. The best way to beat the sugar fix is to go cold turkey: no sugary foods or sweets for a month. The herb astragalus can give you a natural energy lift (500 mg daily).
Eat a balanced, nutrient-rich diet to break the cycle of cravings, sugar, and weight gain. Eating well not only nourishes your body but regulates your blood-sugar levels so that you don’t get those lows.
Certain foods help to regulate blood-sugar levels and tame sugar cravings. Whole grains and fresh veggies are great choices. Yams, sweet potatoes, and squash help to curb a sweet tooth, too.
Support your system with live nutrient-dense superfoods like spirulina or liquid algae. A liquid mineral supplement that contains chromium, manganese, and magnesium is important, too. Deficiencies of any one of these three minerals cause sugar cravings (more than 80 percent of chromium is destroyed in the processing of foods). I often ask my clients to take half a teaspoon of L-glutamine powder before meals to inhibit carbohydrate cravings.
Finally, eat smaller, more frequent meals and regular healthy snacks through the day, especially mid-morning and mid-afternoon, when blood-sugar levels may fluctuate.
Insulin imbalances
When we eat, glucose from the digestion of carbohydrates is absorbed into the blood. At this point, blood-sugar levels are raised. This sends a signal to the pancreas to release insulin. The insulin’s job is to carry the glucose from the blood to the cells in order to bring blood-sugar levels back to normal. Once in the cells, glucose can be used for energy or stored for later as glycogen.
In a healthy diet this process works perfectly. However, excessive consumption of refined carbohydrates, particularly sugary foods, upsets the balance and everything starts to go haywire. Your body has to produce increasing amounts of insulin to keep blood-sugar levels normal. Eventually, you become resistant to the insulin, so more needs to be produced. Once this happens, the glycogen stores become full and glucose is converted to fat.
You are then caught in a vicious cycle where the more unstable your blood-sugar levels, the more prone you will be to craving sweets and unrefined carbohydrates like bread, and the easier it is to lay down fat. But this does not need to be the case.
I started going to the gym last year and I started watching Gillian’s programs to lose some weight. I was a dress size 14 weighing 165 pounds. Since listening to Gillian’s advice I have gone down to a dress size 8 to 10 and I now weigh 130 pounds! I suffered badly with a lack of confidence and losing the weight has really helped. I now have my life back.
Glucose tolerance self-check
If you recognize three or more of the symptoms listed below, you may have a problem with the regulation of insulin and glucose in your body.
Difficulty in concentrating.
Excessive consumption of caffeine, chocolate, or cigarettes.
Excessive sweating.
Excessive thirst.
Extreme difficulty in getting out of bed.
Falling
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