We have all heard this before. As teenagers from our school
coaches who would constantly belt out the proverbial “no pain,
no gain” concept, this ridiculous idea that unless we exercised
like crazy people, we would not likely see the benefits of our
effort, and then from family and friends commenting on our lack
of success in weight loss. “If there is a will, there is a way”
we were told, or in other words, the reason we were overweight
was simply because we just didn’t really want to lose weight.

That is not to say of course that to achieve any of the above
goals doesn’t require effort and dedication on our parts. It
does.. And lots of it. But research has shown that the majority
of people with substantial weight problem have become
pre-conditioned to the inevitability of their current situation
and thus, their attempts to lose fat become more compromised
with the failure of each diet. Putting them (or yourself) down
for being fat or overweight may feel like a powerful
motivational tool in the reverse psychological perverse sort of
way, but in fact, it actually hampers any efforts to change our
eating habits.

Talk to any weight loss doctors who were once overweight and
successfully lost their excess weight and fat, and chances are
you’ll be told that food cravings and weight gain are not always
the result of a lack of willpower.

! Most of us who are chronic dieters have one thing in common
then. We are not short of willpower (feels good just writing
this again!) and likely suffer from a metabolism that produced
too much insulin due to an addiction to carbohydrate.

So what’s the deal with insulin? Well:

Insulin tells your body when to eat
Insulin sends food energy wherever your body needs it
Insulin instructs your body to save food energy which is then
stored in fat cells for the time when food becomes unavailable.

This overproduction of insulin levels caused by the over
absorption of carbohydrates causes a chain reaction which then
leads to hunger pangs. Put in another way, the more carbohydrate
you eat, the more insulin your body produces. This causes an
imbalance which then leads to a cycle of overpowering cravings
for more carbohydrates, such as breads, pastas, snack foods and
cakes which then leads to even more insulin and so on..

You are a carbohydrate addict if:

You are hungrier after breakfast and before lunch time then if
you had skipped breakfast all together.

You are tired and sluggish after a large meal (particularly in
the afternoon)

You have been on diet after diet and have as much weight to
lose (or even more) as when you started.

You want to eat when you are bored or tired

You feel that you are not satisfied, even after a meal

You find it harder to lose weight then when you were younger.

If you answered “yes” to any two of the above six question then
you are mildly carbohydrate addicted. You are moderately
addicted if you have answer “yes to three to four questions, and
you have a severe carbohydrate addiction if you said “yes” to
five or all of the above questions.

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