Making sense of slimming

Are you are one of those people that find that your food cravings peak around 11am or 4pm in the afternoon and you just cant do without that chocolate biscuit or other goodie with your cup of tea?

If you experience an intense high following a dose of sugar, or an energy slump during the day.

This roller coaster of slump and highs are an indication that you are suffering from hypoglycaemia.

What is hypoglycaemia? Well it literally means low blood sugar. But this is not necessarily caused by lack of sugar in your diet.  It reflects a metabolic system that has become dependant on the quick fixes of refined carbohydrates.

If you are following any kind of calorie-controlled diet then you have to pay attention to the effect glucose is having on your body.

 

The food you eat is turned into glucose as a store of energy or fuel. Glucose levels are continually monitored and kept in a delicate balance by hormones whose job it is to store any excess glucose or release it when levels become low.

Glucose is stored in the short term as glycogen in either the liver or in muscles. We usually have a plentiful store of glycogen since we eat as much if not more than we need.

If your stores are full the body has to do something with the glucose so it releases the hormone insulin to store the excess glucose as fat. If you eat the type of foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly your more than likely to promote this storage of fat.

Especially if eating the refined carbohydrates like most breads, cereals, pasta rice, biscuits etc.

 

You can work the system by using foods that sustain energy rather than give you a burst. The system is called using the GI of food (Glycaemic Index)

Learn which foods have a low GI, which is a slow release of sugar, and those that have a quick release of sugar, a high GI.

Following  this regime will help if you are trying not to store fat.

 

Eat porridge rather than cereals

Snack on nuts and seeds rather than a chocolate biscuit

Find out which foods are low GI, focus on complex carbohydrates rather than refined sugar in any form.

Listen to your body; do you need a mid morning snack? Do you slump in the late afternoon? Reviewing your dietary habits and your use of processed carbohydrates may make all the difference to you.

 

You will find an improvement in your concentration, energy and lose those excess pounds as well

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Filed under: free diet plans on April 30th, 2007