I want to share with you the simplicity of why people can’t lose weight using these simple batteries. The very large battery would be equivalent to your fat, an average person who is not overweight is carrying around about 100,000 calories of potential energy. A person that is overweight or obese does carrying probably 200,000 calories I think that’s like 30lb(14kg) of fat.
Over here we have a smaller battery or energy storage this is called glycogen this has 1,700 calories of potential energy. So, we’ve got a hundred thousand to 1,700 and then we got this tiny little battery which is carrying around about 15 calories, about 4 grams of sugar in your blood it’s like one teaspoon of sugar right here for the blood sugar to be normal.
Of course, an average person is consuming a lot more than that, but these are the three types of fuels that you are running your body on now would it make sense that you’d want to tap into fat so rarely does an average person ever get a chance to tap into the fat simply because they don’t understand this one simple thing there’s a switch which tells the body if it’s going to burn fat or glycogen or the sugar in the blood, and that switch is insulin.
If insulin goes up the FAT becomes blocked and you’re only using the glycogen and the blood sugar. If we reduce insulin then we can tap into fat. Now the big question is what controls the insulin? 2 things: it’s amount of carbs that you consume and the frequency of how many times you can you eat in general. Those two things increase insulin and keep you consuming only the glycogen and the blood sugar.
If you consume a lot of carbs like a lot of people do, an average American consumes over 250 to 300 grams of carbs every day, to be able to burn fat you got to bring that down that less than 50.
Now when you chronically consume a lot of carbs you start developing damage with this switch, it’s called insulin resistance. Now it’s going to be really hard to tap into fat even when you do things correctly.
Now when you finally get someone on the right plan and you decrease the frequency of eating you decrease their carbs it could take some time to fix this switch. It could take a month, could take six months or longer, the key is sticking to it until the switch is fixed so you can eventually tap into the fat, and this explains why it takes some time with certain people to really tap into the fat simply because they have a lot of insulin resistance, because they’ve done the carb thing chronically too long.
The best thing to do is to focus on other indicators of health, because it’s to get healthy to lose weight not lose weight to get healthy.
I’m talking about your cravings and your hunger if that’s going down if your energy is going up then that means it’s working. All you have to do is give it more time.
The secret how to combine lowering your carbs and not eating so frequently it’s called healthy ketosis and intermittent fasting.
Make sure that you focus on getting healthy first before you start losing the weight and that way you won’t set yourself up for a failure.
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