August 7, 2007
Low Carb Weight Loss: Part 2
When people are relatively healthy, the extra insulin their bodies produce will usually take care of high blood sugar levels fairly quickly. The problem, though, is that the extra blood sugar levels are decreased very fast.
When our blood sugar levels take a drastic drop from the effects of the insulin at work inside us, the body will immediately think it's hungry. In fact, it will think it's starving, and you will get immediate desperation triggers that tell you to eat something fast.
You'll actually crave sugary, sweet things, because the body knows that this is what will bring the blood sugar levels back up and provide the extra insulin something to work with.
This extreme high and low swing of blood sugar levels creates a cycle that's very difficult to break. The cycle keeps us constantly eating. Not just eating for nutritional sake either, it keeps us eating all the wrong things, which cause the cycle to come full circle again.
When you start lowering the amount of simple sugars and carbs in your daily eating, however, you start to take control of your blood sugar levels. The blood sugar actually balances out and stays fairly even throughout the day.
This makes you less likely to have sudden hunger pangs and cravings, and less likely to binge on all the fattening foods we seem to have on hand all around us. Once you have those cravings and binges under control, it's much easier to lose weight.
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