To lose weight you go on a “diet,” right? You eat less until you arrive at your desired weight, then go back to eating like you were, perhaps with some minor changes.
The problem is it rarely works. Just as lack of oxygen stimulates centers in your brain that compel you to breathe, weight loss stimulates centers in your brain that urge you to eat. Invariably you go back to eating the way you were, and the pounds come roaring back no matter how much willpower you have.
The fact is that obesity is a hormone imbalance. If you don’t correct the biochemical problem that causes you to gain weight, you end up fighting deep-seated survival reflexes that guarantee you’ll regain the weight you lost. If you want to lose weight and keep it off for good, you must address the underlying hormone imbalance, and for most people these days–especially folks with protuberant abdomens–the problem is an excess of the hormone insulin–hyperinsulinemia.
To shrink your belly you need to reduce the amount of insulin your body produces, and you need to do it permanently. The notion that you can lose weight permanently by going on a diet temporarily defies reason.
If a change in diet is going to be permanent, it has to be easy. The good news is, there’s an easy way. You just need the right strategy. Hyperinsulinemia is a double whammy; it’s a combination of insulin resistance and a high glycemic load diet. Eliminating this belly-fattening duo is much easier and more effective than “going on a diet.”
Job One is to restore your muscles’ responsiveness to insulin, and you’ll see that you can do this without a lot of huffing and puffing. In Job Two, you’ll discover how to reduce your glycemic load to a fraction of what it was without depriving yourself of satisfying amounts of good, healthy food. You don’t need a complete overhaul of your diet. In fact, if you try to change too much, you won’t keep it up. All you need to do is reduce–not eliminate– a few exceptionally high glycemic load foods.
Here’s what’s ironic: The foods that are probably driving up your glycemic load are 98 percent tasteless–they contribute little to the flavor of your food. You will find that you can replace them with tastier foods and end up eating better than you were before. I’m going to show you how.
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