What You Dont Know About Eating And Weight Loss

March 10, 2010 by Paul
Filed under Weight Loss

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If permanent weight loss is what you want, there are fundamental fat burning diet facts that you need to know, understand and apply. You can take it as a truth that a high blood sugar level will cause an excessive level of insulin in your body. There are 2 reasons you will get fatter when there is too much insulin in your body.

It causes some of the food that you have eaten to be stored as fat in your body
It prevents your body from using fat, it previously stored, as energy

The regulation of your blood sugar level is the center piece of a fat burning diet, permanent weight loss, and weight management.

Fat Burning Diet and The Regulation Of Your Blood Sugar Levels

What causes blood sugar levels to rise triggering an increase of insulin levels?

missed meals or prolonged periods between meals
eating an increased amount of simple sugars
eating large food quantities per meal
double carbohydrate intake in one serving

Missed Meals or Prolonged Periods between Meals

Not eating for 3 or more hours will cause your blood sugar level to drop below normal. In response, your body compensates for this by creating a sharp rise in blood sugar the next time you eat. The insulin level in your blood rises, as a result of this.

Eating Foods With Sugar

Eating sugary food – more than 10 grams per serving – will increase your blood sugar level sharply, resulting in excess insulin production and secretion into your blood. Due to this, you can forget about burning fat and losing weight.

Restrict your consumption of sugar to no more than 10 grams per serving. Restrict your consumption of desserts to 2-3 times in a week and do not eat desserts on consecutive days.

Large Food Quantities Per Meal

Your liver breaks down the food you eat into three major nutrients: Carbohydrates to glycogen; Protein to amino acids; and fats to fats.

When you consume a lot of food in one sitting, your liver is not able to convert the food as stated. There will be an increase of fats and sugars in your bloodstream, from your liver.

This causes a rise in your blood sugar, which in turn increases the level of insulin in your blood. Your body is prevented from using fat for energy. No fat burning = no weight loss.

Double Carbohydrate Intake in One Meal

Your liver breaks down carbohydrates into glycogen. If you eat 2 or more starchy carbohydrates during the same meal, your blood sugar level, and your insulin level, will rise because your body will produce glucose from this.

As a result, your body will not be able to use its fat stores and you will not lose weight.

Starchy carbohydrates are potato, pasta, rice, bread, pizza,dough, cake, cookies etc.

The Big Truths About a Fat Burning Diet

If you are serious about fat burning, you must pay attention not only to what you eat but how you eat and when you eat. To get rid of the unwanted fat and weight you are carrying, it is vital that you understand a few more fundamental facts about controlling your blood sugar, that is not covered in this article. Click here to find out what else you don’t know about a fat burning diet and permanent weight loss.