sugar/carbs

Question
Matt
I am 48.All my life I have ben chubby,although I dont eat much and am active.
Everything always checked out OK medically.
Before Xmas I tried an experiment.No sweets,white bread or potatoes.Semi low carb.I substituted those with more meat and fruit and veggies.I ate as many calories as before if not more.
I have lost 5 pounds and its still coming off! What the heck is going on? Is there a name for what I have-sugar or carb intolerance-insulin resistance?


Answer
Barry,

Many, many, many people discover that if you cut away refined sugars, processed foods, bad carbs, etc that you will lose weight. That is how the Atkins or South Beach diet got so much hype. The truth is that you will most likely continue to lose weight, until your body says enough is enough "I want my carbs back". Once you reach this stage its too late. You will be fighting against your body. Your body is going to try in its best efforts to pack back on the pounds that you recently lost. In fact, your body is so bold faced, it will even add a few extra pounds just to show that its in charge.

However, not because what I am telling you about these types of diets makes all of them wrong. Some diest work for some people, if they didn't then they would not be selling like hot-cakes. You need to take proper measurments to see weather or not you are losing lean body mass (lean sexy muscle) or if you are losing body fat (ugly non-sexy fat). In order to do this you will want to contact a health professional in your area and have your body fat tested atleast once per six weeks.

My best advice to you would be, as long as you keep seeing results (keeping in mind that the results is nothing more than fat coming off) then you should keep doing what you have been doing. You know the old saying "don't fix what isn't broken". So test and observe how your body reacts to long term semi low carb, no sweets, no white bread or potatoes.

Thanks and God Bless  

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