The association between LBPA associates and weight loss or weight loss and weight gain has been in the news. It has even been brought up in a couple of episodes of The Biggest Loser. At the same time though, there has been a lot more discussion on how eating healthy and making sure you exercise everyday helps you drop weight.
In the beginning of this video, we talk a bit about the benefits of losing weight. These benefits include: improved blood flow (the first major benefit), stress levels (the second major benefit), and a decrease in inflammation and fat storage (the third major benefit). In many cases though, it is the first benefit that is most desired. In this case, the most desired benefit is the second benefit, which is stress.
There are lots of different reasons why you could lose weight by eating a diet that is low in sugar. One of these reasons is that the body is designed to hold fat, and when you remove glucose from your blood, your body can process it into glycogen and stored as fat. The second reason for weight loss is the stress hormone cortisol being released.
As I mentioned before, the stress hormone cortisol keeps us from losing weight. It is also the chemical that makes us feel as though we have to do something we don’t want to do, like eat a lot. We are all trained to suppress this stress hormone so that we don’t have to. However, if you eat a diet that is high in carbohydrates, you will feel less stressed because you won’t have to suppress this chemical.
The third reason we lose weight is because our hormones change. When we eat carbs we want to eat them for energy. When we eat proteins we want to eat them for protein, and when we consume fats we want to eat them for both. In this situation, the food we eat makes us feel stressed, but it also makes us feel full. The two effects of eating high fat, high carbohydrate foods cancel each other out.
This is why we can’t eat carbs and not gain weight. The reason is that while carbs make us feel full they also spike your blood sugar which causes you to feel stressed. So instead of consuming carbs we have to rely on our stress hormones to suppress them. If we don’t do this, after eating carbs we feel hungry, but then have to eat more fat to feel full so we gain weight.
It’s true, and this is why we have a tendency to eat so much fat and not enough carbs. We’re just eating too much fat, not enough carbs.
If you want to know how fat and carbs affect your hormones, we’re going to cover that in a separate blog.
When it comes to how fat and carbs impact our hormones, we’re going to have to wait until we get to the end of the blog. But first, a little tidbit about how carbs affect your hormones. The main hormone that your body produces when you eat carbs is insulin. Insulin makes you absorb carbs from your food and turn them into energy. When insulin is suppressed, you’re more likely to eat more carbs than fat, and your blood sugar is elevated.
Insulin is the key hormone in weight loss, because it helps control how much sugar you eat. If you eat carbs to a point where youre getting less insulin from your food, youre less likely to eat as much sugar. The reason you eat more carbs is because youre using more fat. At the same time, if youre more insulin-suppressed, youre less likely to eat as much fat.