Fri, Jun-07-02, 08:42
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Senior Member
Posts: 475
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Plan: Protein Power LP Dilletan
Stats: 164/145/138
BF:
Progress: 73%
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Wow, you are just like me. I had to have some sugar like in a soda and white flour like in a bagel to feel "normal". But think about that, so does an alcoholic have to have a drink to feel "normal", so does a drug addict have to have their drug to feel "normal". Here is what happened to me (and is happening to you). When I was younger I ate a lot of sugar and white flour and really didn't relate it to how I felt. As an adult, I began to notice that I got a lift after eating certain foods and felt better. Especially an hour or two after lunch, I'd really feel down and disoriented, but I'd just pop some sugar and I'd feel "normal" again. This is what was happening in my body: The lunch contained carbs i.e. bread or pasta or even a soda. So my blood sugar levels rose quite a bit from this lunch within an hour or two and therefore my body would kick in the insulin to take my blood sugars to normal. But with that much carbohydrate in my system, I would get an insulin overload that would take too much glucose (sugar) out of my blood. This would make me feel almost dizzy, I was tired and I couldn't concentrate. So I'd eat something sweet to make myself feel better and guess what, it did! But what was happening inside my body was that I was causing the glucose levels to go back to normal, so that made me feel better almost instantly, but with the amount of sweets I was eating, I was also setting myself up for another insulin spike to bring me down again. Then of course I'd feel bad again until I had dinner.
The bad thing about all this is that it gets worse as you grow older. You will need more and more sugar to feel better and your body will put out more and more insulin. This scenario (not to make you anxious or anything) but this scenario is the pathway to hyperinsulinemia and diabetes. This is how it starts and the only way to stop it is to go cold turkey from carbohydrates. You don't have to do Atkin's but you need a diet that is less than 25% carbohydrates to control blood sugar levels according to the latest studies. The beauty of going with the Atkin's approach is that after the first week, you will be absolutely amazed that you don't need or want or crave sugary foods for the first time in your life. I'm only on my fourth week, but that fact alone keeps me going.
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