Anyone who has ever dieted tries to avoid adding fat to there diets at all cost. However if you really do the science behind this understanding, you may learn that adding fat to you diet will actually help you lose the weight you are storing. I have noted the science in my previous last two post to this blog.
I have been doing this for approx. three straight weeks now. Cutting my carb (breads and starch) intake in half. Half a slice of bread at sandwich time and have the carbs at dinner time, the primary meals of the day. Adding a spoon of peanut butter in between meals and a half of a spoon full at breakfast time.
As of this mourning I have lost approximately 7 lbs. Might I add I have not changed the amounts I eat, just changed what it was that I was eating. As mentioned below, fat does not spike your glucose or flood your system with insulin, keeping your metabolism in check and burning what you need to burn. This is a survival system. If you do not feed it fat, your body will store fat for survival in preparation of not have food available.
Best of all peanut butter is loaded with protein so you can keep going through out the day. Protein fills you up so you don't feel hungry as often, something carbs leave you feeling. Take it as a snack wherever you go.
Colby
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Too Much Carbs? Part 2
Part 2 of 2 part scenario
Well my friends, I have gone through almost a 2 week trail of the below information. Trading my carbs for saturated fats.
One would think that since you are adding fat to your diet that you would gain weight. Wrong! As explained in my last entry. Carbs raise your glucose releasing insulin into your blood stream causing your body to store weight slowing your metabolism. I mentioned the test routine of cutting half your carbs and replacing them with good saturated fats.
Successfully, I have cut my carbs by 50% and increased my natural fat intake by 50% for the last two weeks. Currently I have not gained or lost any weight by doing this. However I have become a slight bit stronger in my quest. So this goes to support the myth that one must eat fat to loose fat. One thing I can tell you is that I feel better actually doing this. I have lost the feelings of sluggishness associated with carb intake. When carbs enter the body, they turn to glucose (another form of sugar). No wonder I was getting tired, to much sugar in my blood. This can also relate to people with diabetes.
Fat does not spike, or change your metabolic rate. It simply enters the body as is and is used in energy consumption along with protein. When your metabolic rate is more constant and stable, this allows your body to use its stores, versus burn what is high or has been spiked. I honestly can't tell if I have lost any or gained any based on only a two week period. However two weeks is long enough to tell that if I have gained fat weight, it would have shown in my close.
Conclusion; Replacing carbs with natural fat (much like nuts) in the correct moderation type way, will make you preform better and possibly lost more weight then if you have not. Do replace carbs with bad or saturated fat. You must eat calories to burn calories also. If you do not eat, your body will store what it is loosing, hence your body fat. This can be as simple as eating a small scope of peanut butter in between meals to curb your appetite or munching on a handful of nuts. However like anything if you over do it, it will have side effects. I recommend not eating more then 3 scoops or 5 handfuls of nuts a day. If one goes over the limit, I would imagine they could actually gain weight.
Colby
Well my friends, I have gone through almost a 2 week trail of the below information. Trading my carbs for saturated fats.
One would think that since you are adding fat to your diet that you would gain weight. Wrong! As explained in my last entry. Carbs raise your glucose releasing insulin into your blood stream causing your body to store weight slowing your metabolism. I mentioned the test routine of cutting half your carbs and replacing them with good saturated fats.
Successfully, I have cut my carbs by 50% and increased my natural fat intake by 50% for the last two weeks. Currently I have not gained or lost any weight by doing this. However I have become a slight bit stronger in my quest. So this goes to support the myth that one must eat fat to loose fat. One thing I can tell you is that I feel better actually doing this. I have lost the feelings of sluggishness associated with carb intake. When carbs enter the body, they turn to glucose (another form of sugar). No wonder I was getting tired, to much sugar in my blood. This can also relate to people with diabetes.
Fat does not spike, or change your metabolic rate. It simply enters the body as is and is used in energy consumption along with protein. When your metabolic rate is more constant and stable, this allows your body to use its stores, versus burn what is high or has been spiked. I honestly can't tell if I have lost any or gained any based on only a two week period. However two weeks is long enough to tell that if I have gained fat weight, it would have shown in my close.
Conclusion; Replacing carbs with natural fat (much like nuts) in the correct moderation type way, will make you preform better and possibly lost more weight then if you have not. Do replace carbs with bad or saturated fat. You must eat calories to burn calories also. If you do not eat, your body will store what it is loosing, hence your body fat. This can be as simple as eating a small scope of peanut butter in between meals to curb your appetite or munching on a handful of nuts. However like anything if you over do it, it will have side effects. I recommend not eating more then 3 scoops or 5 handfuls of nuts a day. If one goes over the limit, I would imagine they could actually gain weight.
Colby
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