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High Blood Sugar Level
and Weight Loss
The best ways of avoiding a high blood sugar level from ruining your weight loss.
Understanding why it can ruin your weight loss efforts will give you the incentives to change your diet. Your blood sugar levels are affected by the food you eat, especially food with a high glycemic index and it’s relatively easy to change your habits.
But let’s start to look at:
A High Blood Sugar Level And InsulinThe body doesn’t want blood sugar levels that are too high. The body, and especially the brain, needs a certain amount of glucose/sugar (which it gets from the food you eat), but too much gives you dangerous blood sugar levels.
When the levels get too high, insulin is released to remove the sugar from the blood. Insulin lowers the blood sugar to acceptable levels.
If too much glucose is released too fast, a large amount of insulin is produced; that results in a fast drop of the blood glucose level, what is called Rebound Effect.
Sometimes you can get a blood sugar drop and the level is lower after your meal than before; causing the brain to send a signal to quickly eat something sweet, and that’s when we get "sugar cravings", which are hard to resist. You will also feel you lack energy and feel hungry again before you should be feeling hungry.
Food with a low glycemic index releases glucose into the blood stream more steadily over several hours and keeps the blood sugar at a lower, stable level.
This is what we want on a diet; the fewer reasons to eat more, the better.
A High Blood Sugar Level can cause Weight GainThe most important reason why you should look more into the glycemic index to help you lose weight is that too much insulin in the blood can make you gain weight.
What?
I can hear your question; "We lose weight while eating fewer calories than we burn, don’t we, and a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, or…?"
Yes, but there’s a lot more to it than that. The fat burning process is a complicated and time consuming process for the body.
Let me try to explain it:
Fat is stored in the fat cells but burned in the muscles and energy consuming organs like the liver.
The fat has to be released from the fat cells, allowed into the blood stream in the form of free fat acids to finally reach the muscles and the organs, where the fat burning process takes place.
If no free fat acids are released into the blood stream, the body is unable to burn fat.
The result? No weight loss.
In this essential step insulin plays an important role. It controls if the fat cells will release or absorb fat. When too much insulin is released into the blood stream the fat cells start absorbing instead of releasing fat and the result for you is…
… No Weight Loss, But Weight Gain!
The best way to avoid a high blood sugar level is by learning more about the glycemic index and choosing food with a low GI. That will keep your insulin levels low, allowing fat to be released and burned in the body. So when applying your knowledge about how insulin works in your body, you will soon see some amazing results on the scale.
With you on the weigh,
Eva
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