Fat, chocolate and Weightloss
Sugar, Fat, Salt, Chemistry of your Brain and Weight Loss
Learn how you can lose weight more easily with or without pills.
Simple weight gain results (outside other medical conditions) from an imbalance between food intake and daily physical activity. Understanding how your body works on the foods you intake is the first step to losing weight.
The first steps to ensuring weight loss would be to “cleanse” or “detox” , your system.
Your body works like a bank for the large part. Put in more than you take out and you will have ‘gains’ – only this time the ‘gains’ are quite prominently displayed around your belly, hips , thighs and or arms. Ugh! We all know that we would gladly let go of those gains!
And yet, if you are like me, a food aficionado then – you are more likely to be eager to learn how to keep your appetite and your weight – working amicably together..
Primary focus on weight loss, scientifically speaking is on the 2 particular lifestyle factors:
The fuel that your body, especially your brain runs on is called glucose, a simple chain sugar. Glucose is what gives the ‘energy ‘of life. Your brain cells need two times more energy than the other cells in your body.
Glucose is the only fuel normally used by brain cells. Because neurons cannot store glucose, they depend on the bloodstream to deliver a constant supply of this precious fuel. This is the reason why – the old recommendation – “sit down and “think about it” for a while “is often used before making serious decisions.
Your brain rapidly burns up glucose during high peaks of mental activity and during periods of short periods of stress (physical and emotional).
Therefore, a diet low in fat, but high in carbohydrates, may serve to increase triglyceride levels.
So when you starve yourself, or get into a fitness regimen or are highly stressed that you begin to use more carbohydrates than you need to fuel your body, your brain has an alternate pathway (other than the simple metabolism of carbohydrates as explained above) to break down fat which can be converted into glucose.
The stored fat is thus converted back into carbohydrate and used as fuel for your body.
Remember too that virtually all naturally occurring fats contain triglycerides (lower in vegetable and higher in animal sources) so a diet rich in complex carbohydrates and fats no matter what the source is will ultimately result in a FAT Gain!
Learn how you can lose weight more easily with or without pills.
Simple weight gain results (outside other medical conditions) from an imbalance between food intake and daily physical activity. Understanding how your body works on the foods you intake is the first step to losing weight.
The first steps to ensuring weight loss would be to “cleanse” or “detox” , your system.
Your body works like a bank for the large part. Put in more than you take out and you will have ‘gains’ – only this time the ‘gains’ are quite prominently displayed around your belly, hips , thighs and or arms. Ugh! We all know that we would gladly let go of those gains!
And yet, if you are like me, a food aficionado then – you are more likely to be eager to learn how to keep your appetite and your weight – working amicably together..
Primary focus on weight loss, scientifically speaking is on the 2 particular lifestyle factors:
- Increased levels of physical activity (increased metabolism)
- Reductions in the intakes of fat and sugars… (Decreasing fat stores) or helping increasing metabolism.
The fuel that your body, especially your brain runs on is called glucose, a simple chain sugar. Glucose is what gives the ‘energy ‘of life. Your brain cells need two times more energy than the other cells in your body.
Glucose is the only fuel normally used by brain cells. Because neurons cannot store glucose, they depend on the bloodstream to deliver a constant supply of this precious fuel. This is the reason why – the old recommendation – “sit down and “think about it” for a while “is often used before making serious decisions.
Your brain rapidly burns up glucose during high peaks of mental activity and during periods of short periods of stress (physical and emotional).
Therefore, a diet low in fat, but high in carbohydrates, may serve to increase triglyceride levels.
So when you starve yourself, or get into a fitness regimen or are highly stressed that you begin to use more carbohydrates than you need to fuel your body, your brain has an alternate pathway (other than the simple metabolism of carbohydrates as explained above) to break down fat which can be converted into glucose.
The stored fat is thus converted back into carbohydrate and used as fuel for your body.
Remember too that virtually all naturally occurring fats contain triglycerides (lower in vegetable and higher in animal sources) so a diet rich in complex carbohydrates and fats no matter what the source is will ultimately result in a FAT Gain!
The body breaks down and builds up …. Put Metabolism to work and you will never be fat again!
……..A’isha Bauer.
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