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