Carbs are what the body uses for energy. Carbs are converted to glucose as they go through the gut and into the blood. Glucose in the blood is bad for you. My body will therefore try to convert blood sugar to body fat. To control my weight I need to be sure that my carbs are eaten slowly over the day, not all at once. If I keep my blood sugar even, my body consumes the available carbs and if it’s short, dips a little into the fat reserves each day. Cup your hands and look inside. That is the most carbs I ever want to eat at once, and at most three times a day.
That is why the Atkins diet works too; it does so by depriving my body of carbs. With no insulin there’s no stimulus for fat to grow. During the times when my calories are slightly low, my body happily consumes its fat supplies. The problem with the Atkins is that I have a great appetite. I can gain weight on the Atkins diet: eat 1,600 calories of steak in 5 minutes. Yum—and then I get hungry, because the volume of food still isn’t high enough. Carb based whole foods, on the other hand, have about 225 calories per cup. That includes brown rice, lentils, vegetable stir fry, quinoa, whole oats, etc. I found I needed 5 cups of food a day to stave off hunger, more than that and I get a tummy ache. That would be 1 cup for breakfast, two cups for the work day and 2 cups for that wonderful dinner time. That’s 1125 to 1200 calories of flavorful food to enjoy and be satisfied. Just don’t eat it all at once.
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So many people wish they could lose weight. This blog is an attempt to put together something to share about my experience. I started January of 2012 at 232 lbs and I had been trying to lose weight, probably shaving 5 lbs off my maximum, which would have been closer to 235. My last measurement showed a mere 160.4 lbs. The means over the last year I would have lost 75 lbs. In the picture from the summer of 2012 I weigh 175. I would love to get down to the 150 to 155 range over the next year. Why so slim? Mostly because if its worth doing its worth doing well. But also because arteriosclerosis runs thick in my family and if I can live at an ideal weight of course I should. I'm also fully content to live life at 160 if that's how it is to be, but I think its worth a try. This blog lets you join the adventure! The main thing was I just decided I'm in charge of my own weight. Policitians and actors do it. Why not me? Do I just did. No hocus-pocus. No hormones or any kind of pill. No extreme behavior, diets or fasting. No worries about mysterious toxins. Just a series of straight-up, science-based strategies. That why I think I have something to share. I can weigh whatever I want. Although I take what I know from science, I don't have access to scholarly libraries or time to do full scholarship on what I put here. I don't claim to have all the science right. If you know something I should know, add in a comment. This blog is a work in progress, I will keep editing the pages as I get ideas, insight and feedback. All my best -- Rob |
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