xyzzy
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I have just been advised to start a low carb diet to aid in my weight loss and am a looking for help and advise as don't know where to turn, I need to lose 5 stone, I have started doing more cardio to help this process. I am struggling to get an understanding of what I can eat for my meals and snacks I leave the house at 6am to go to the gym and workout for an hour before having breakfast then work in an office all day, arriving home about 6pm for my evening meal. Any information or links to information greatly appreciated someone did mention Slimming Worlds Red days as anyone tried this and had any success. Many Thanks
The diabetic nurse at gp practice and as weightloss diet but she has also referred me to a specialist diabetic dietatician to help as a am not losing weight but increasing even though I have started 5 days a week of 1 hour cardio at the gym
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thats great ian and i do understand it and helps me along in my quest thanku for ur time it mean alot i do apriciate this thanku xYou asked about my diet. Well I will do my best to tell you, but I am not to good at explaining myself. So if you do not understand, please ask. First I will say I am no good living by rules, I try to live by principles.
Here goes. When we eat the body produces insulin to disperse the gutigens. Either to the cells (muscle) or as fat, if we have lots of insulin floating around, the brain wants you to eat more food so that it can be used.
That was part one
Calories are a measure of heat, If you take a gallon of petrol and tip it on the floor and set fire to it all the energy is released very quickly. But put it in a car, or a container with a small wick, the energy is slowly released. The amount of energy is the same in both cases.
So to put the two together, If we eat slow digesting food, our bodies can utilize the suggers, If we exercise after eating we create space for the sugars to go.
So I low card, to bring down the sugar level. and the carbs I do eat I try to get to release slowly, In effect, unprocessed (whole meal pasta, brown rice etc) If I do eat something that "spikes" me (as pasta does) I mix it with something slow like cheese, and I am fine.
To help choose food look out for the Glycemic Load, that will give you the best starting place (google it)
I hope this is of some use to you if you do not understand or want to know more just ask
Andy the exercise is to improve fitness and also burn caloroics due to having a sedate job it is to assist with the weightloss, I do not struggle with blood glocuse levels as these stay stable
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Douglas she didnt mention anything else other than reduce the amount of carbs I eat
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The problems come back when you start to replace the carbs with fats, the calories go back up, and the weight loss stops.
I had no problems, replacing like for like calories from carbs to fat will not mean any increase in total calories. I'm on a maintenance diet now and don't count calories as such as I find HFLC to be self regulating I very rarely feel the need to graze between meals.