Hormones & Weight: Insulin

Aug 5, 2022

Wondering why you just can’t lose weight?  It’s possible insulin is the reason why.

 

Insulin is a hormone that your body releases in response to sugar in the bloodstream.  It tells your body to store that sugar as a fat.

 

As long as blood sugar remains high, your body will stay in fat storage mode, and you won’t be able to access the fat on your body and use it as fuel.

 

So then the question becomes – how do we get our insulin down so our bodies can switch from fat storage mode to fat burning mode?

 

There are a couple of ways.

 

  1. Reduce the amount of processed sugar you are eating.  Processed sugar doesn’t exist in nature, so your body did not evolve (was not designed) to deal with it.  Processed sugar spikes your body’s blood sugar up really high, which then requires your insulin to spike up really high.  This can also lead to energy crashes and that “hangry” feeling, which you will also reach for a snack to cure.

 

  1. Reduce the amount of processed flour you are eating. Many people don’t know this, but flour breaks down into sugar in the body very quickly and will follow that same process that sugar follows – spiking blood sugar, spiking insulin, leading to crashes and hanger.  Even the starch in potato chips turns into sugar in the body and follows this same pattern!

 

  1. If you aren’t willing to reduce the amount of sugar and flour you are eating, you can still find ways to at least give your body a break between spikes. Cutting out snacks between meals allows your body to recover.

 

  1. You can also prolong the fast you are already doing. You see, everyone fasts – when we are asleep!  Even if you eat the exact same total volume of food and the exact same types of food, if you cut out snacking after dinner and delay or skip breakfast, that gives your body a chance to access fat stores at least during that part of the day before you start spiking up your sugar and insulin.

 

If you are constantly nibbling on sugar and flour based treats from when you first get up until when you get to sleep, your body won’t be able to access the fat on your body for fuel, even if you are watching your portions and calories, because getting blood sugar under control takes precedence over all other functions.

 

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