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The Power of your Metabolism

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HOW TO “CHEAT” INTELLIGENTLY

 

In order to be successful in your goal of boosting your metabolism and slimming down, you should know which factors slow down and speed up your metabolism.  This is what we have been talking about all along.

However, at times we find ourselves in social situations (parties, family celebrations, birthdays, etc.) where it is simply impossible or impractical to follow the 2x1 or 3x1© diet (see the topic A DIET YOU CAN LIVE WITH).

Well, there is no need to worry.  If you find yourself forced to break your 2x1 or 3x1 diet©, what is important is that you know how to do it intelligently.  The idea is to cause the least amount of damage as possible to your metabolism and to your goal of slimming down. There is a way to “cheat” intelligently.

Let’s say you suddenly find yourself at a surprise birthday party for your best friend.  There is a way that you can eat everything that is at the party, but knowing how to do it.  It is a question of avoiding major damage to what you have already accomplished by applying what you have learned so far.

In order be able to eat everything in the party without causing major damage, you should first know how your body reacts to the foods that are high in carbohydrates.  When you eat foods that are high in refined carbohydrates (cake, cookies, etc.), your body responds by producing a certain amount of insulin.  The effect of the insulin is to lower the blood glucose levels that you have created by eating refined carbohydrates.  The process goes something like this:


Carbs_to_Glucose_to_more_Insulin_Graph        Doctors Rachael and Richard Heller wrote a book called “The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet”.  They explain their discovery about how you can break your diet without causing much damage to your goal of slimming down.

These doctors discovered that your body learns from every one of the meals that you have.  For example, if you have a breakfast high in carbohydrates, your body will have to produce enough insulin to manage the glucose that is created by the carbohydrates.  For your next meal, lunch, your body will be expecting another meal high in carbohydrates and will be ready for a major production of insulin.  In other words, your body is alive and learns how to “predict” what you are going to eat next.  If, on the other hand, your breakfast is low in carbohydrates, your body will have to produce very little insulin and will be expecting a lunch that is also low in carbohydrates.  Your body is learning, and it is you who are teaching it.

The other thing that the Heller doctors discovered is that when you eat carbohydrates your body always makes a first release of insulin, which is dependent upon what you ate in your previous meal.  If you ate very little carbohydrates in your previous meal, the initial release of insulin in your body will be minor because your body has learned that you are eating very little carbohydrates. If on the contrary you ate a lot of carbohydrates at your previous meal your body will be ready to produce a large amount of initial release of insulin on your next meal.


The Heller’s have also discovered that about an hour after you start eating, your body checks again to see how many carbohydrates you have eaten to see if it needs to produce more insulin.  If your body senses that you have continued eating carbohydrates an hour later, then it will do a second release of insulin to be able to manage the additional glucose that will build up.

If you remember correctly, it is the action of insulin that makes us fat. The less insulin the body produces, the easier it will be for us to slim down.  The more insulin is produced, the fatter we will get.  Without insulin, it is impossible to get fat.  The way to slim down is to decrease the production of insulin that your body makes in response to carbohydrates.

So, knowing this information about how your body works in response to what you eat, the Heller doctors taught us a way of “cheating” intelligently.

If you are going to break your diet and “cheat”, the key is that you follow these 2 rules:

  1. Never eat an excessive amount of refined carbohydrates if your previous meal was also high in carbohydrates. Your body will be waiting with a major release of insulin that will make you gain fat.

 

  1. If you are going to eat a large amount of refined carbohydrates, make sure not to take longer than 1 hour to eat your meal. If more than an hour goes by from when you started eating carbohydrates, your body will produce a second release of insulin that will make you gain fat.

These are two rules that you have to follow to be able to “cheat” intelligently.  If you follow these rules, you will be able to periodically, or when necessary, eat the amount of carbohydrates that the occasion requires without losing everything that you have accomplished up to that point.

Personally, if I know that I am going to a party in the evening, I try to be good during the day (breakfast and lunch) so that at the party that night I can indulge myself a bit and know that I’m not going to get fatter.  Naturally, my indulging can’t last more than 1 hour from start to finish.  Therefore, when I’m going to eat, I eat.  In other words, I don’t stand around eating appetizers because I know that the time starts to count when I take the first bite and I want to avoid that second shot of insulin that the body produces if I continue eating for more than 1 hour.

You don’t have to ever feel remorse or regret if you know what you are doing.  You can “cheat” every once in a while, but do it intelligently.


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