Forget the Calories, Focus on the Quality of Your Diet
Here are the take home lessons from Dr. Ludwig’s paper (from Dr Hyman's article from my last blog post):
- Overeating doesn’t make you fat. Your fat cells make you overeat.
- You make hungry fats cells by eating sugar and refined carbs.
- Restricting your calories will slow your metabolism, make you hungry and guarantee that your weight loss attempts will fail.
- Eating a higher fat, higher protein, lower sugar and refined carb diet will speed up your metabolism and cut your hunger.
- Controlling what you eat is much easier than controlling how much you eat.
- Forget calorie counting. It’s not about the calories but about diet
quality and dietary composition. Just try eating 1,000 calories of
broccoli.
- End our scientifically outdated position that all calories are equal
and weight loss is simply a matter of eating fewer calories than you
burn.
- Lower insulin by a sugar detox, and watch your body lose weight effortlessly without hunger or cravings.
- To learn more, watch the movie Fed Up or read The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet (a medically designed program to cut insulin and detox from sugar and refined carbs).
- Stop blaming yourself for lack of willpower, and start empowering
yourself by eating real, whole, fresh food that’s low in sugar and
starch.
Everyday I see the media catching on to the fact that sugar and flour are the drugs that are making us all fat. Today Dr Mercola had a good article entitled "Why do we overeat?"
This morning my daughter made these homemade sugar cinnamon waffles. They smelled and looked so good, the addictive part of my brain said "what's the harm, I'll have one." But she's seen my struggles and knows about my addiction so told me not to - forbid me - to have one. I was glad to have her support...
You might ask why I would let her make waffles. I have to live in a world where these foods are everywhere so I can't base my success on other people's choices. These uneaten
waffles are still sitting on the table and fortunately I have no
physical cravings, I just know I would like the taste.
Waffles and pancakes are gateways drugs to full-blown sugar binging for me. Its been two weeks since I've had any sugar (I had one piece of bread so a little flour) and I feel a lot better and have lost 15lbs. I still have a long way to go but am not going to give up!!
Dr Mark Hyman (Wellness Center, Lenox and author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day
Detox Diet) states:
"Being addicted to sugar and flour is not an emotional eating
disorder. It’s a biological disorder, driven by hormones and
neurotransmitters that fuel sugar and carb cravings — leading to
uncontrolled overeating."
This 1000% describes me and my struggle with sugar! It's nice to hear Doctors confirm what I've known... that my tries at eating sugar in moderation don't work. See Dr Hyman's TOP 10 BIG IDEAS... the 10 commandments of the detox.
I haven't been doing well in my attempts to detox - keep having setbacks as sweets are put in my path but I am not giving up. Today is day 4 and I was able to bring a few cookies home for my son without caring to eat any... not much willpower needed. The longest I went sugar free was 3 years but when I tried to reintroduce it the cravings came back and I let them take over and it led to weight gain.
I haven't had any sugar (or white flour) for 10 days! I am back on the wagon as they say and it's amazing how much willpower I have now that it's out of my body. There were Milky Way bars behind me at work and I never even thought about them. That would have been impossible if there was sugar in my system.
A very well respected Dr and author has a new book coming out - how to detox from sugar and lose 10 pounds in 10 days. I actually lost 10 pounds in 7 days by giving up sugar, white flour and processed foods. I like the nutrition of Isagenix IsaLean Pro. I like that more Dr are coming out with this information. Sugar addiction is very real and is causing our population to be overweight and sick.
CONFESSIONS OF A FOOD ADDICT
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