How do you feel ?
Changing what we eat in order to lose weight or manage type 2 diabetes is a logical thing to do however if we don’t commit to the change in our own minds and listen to how we really feel success is unlikely.
I have heard that weight loss is achieved primarily by exercise and calorie restriction and that recent studies suggest that we are pre-wired to put on weight. It is claimed by these studies that it is part of our genetics. The outcome of this suggested hypothesis is that we are doomed to be fat and unhealthy as these studies go on to say that many people that lose weight put it back on again and more after a few years.
The answer to why this is happening I believe is complicated and often different for each person. But I would suggest that a lot of people are still eating the same foods that they did before they lost weight and that they are therefore not listening in the right way their own bodies.
We need to break the cycle of eating the same carb rich foods and not listening to our own bodies.
Carbohydrate rich diets make you feel lousy. Almost as soon as you’ve eaten you can feel hungry almost straight away because the body burns the carbs to produce glucose which gets released into the body to be used as energy. But when there is too much glucose, the body then over produces insulin to deal with the excess glucose. Excess glucose then gets stored as fat. So we get fatter. High insulin levels lead to other troubles, one of which I understand to be called hyperinsulinemia. I’m not a doctor but I know that this is a precursor to type 2 diabetes and something that needs to be avoided.
For a long time in my life I suppressed in my mind that I was often feeling tired in the working day putting it down to just working hard. I work very hard at what I do and that is a reasonable conclusion to come to but it should not be all of the time. It should not be most of the time either, without there being the complication of illness or disease.
So if your feeling tired and hungry all of the time, ask yourself, why ?
Could you have a condition that you need to address and get a proper diagnosis for ?
Or could it simply be that your eating too many carbohydrates and subsequently the above burning and storing of glucose is happening ?
Its at this time that most people say ‘seek medical advice’ which I would not disagree with but I would say that you should also listen to your own body and how you feel.
The studies I mention above have recently been published in Canada I believe but its a fairly common viewpoint I have seen and read about elsewhere. I don’t all together agree with the idea that some people have genetics that will make them over weight all of the time. No doubt some will regrettably suffer with this but it does not logically suggest a reason for obesity becoming the pandemic it is today. Why have 1 in 3 or more people in populations the size of the US suddenly got so over weight when 50 years ago it was not the case ?
I started to lose weight over 5 years ago now and I have not returned to my former weight. I am at least a single blip in the chart of evidence that shows this is not the inevitable outcome.
You can be the same annoying statistic too if you would like to be and if you listen to how you feel and make changes like eating less carbohydrates.