I work out four to five days each
week. I eat “low fat / no fat? everything and I carefully count Calories. I
never eat after 6:00 P.M. and I rarely eat desert. I eat whole grains and try
to follow the recommended food guide. I have been faithful to this program for
nearly two years but I still can’t lose those twenty excess pounds.

If the foregoing scenario sounds
familiar despair not for you are not alone. Also, don’t be discouraged because
there are some answers to your problems. Read on.

If your are troubled by this
frustrating, routinely recommended “diet and exercise? system and find that you
also tend to gain all of your shed kilograms / pounds back every time you
digress from your program you are likely among the 75+% of the population who
have not been controlling your Insulin levels.

The Heller’s of “The Carbohydrate
Addicts Diet? fame would call you an addict. Some would call you Insulin
resistant and others would call you “Pre-Diabetic?. It doesn’t matter what your
condition is called, the reality is, you are likely not controlling your
insulin levels.

North Americans are eating less fat
than ever recorded in history and yet they are gaining weight to a point where
the World Health Organization has called it an epidemic. We also have a Type II
Diabetes epidemic in progress and a new case is diagnosed every 8½ minutes in
Canada. Type II Diabetes is the condition where you produce enough or a lot of
insulin but appear to be resistant to its proper utilization - it is know as
Non Insulin Dependant Diabetes or Adult Onset Diabetes)

The form of Diabetes is totally
controllable by diet although few choose that route. Most Type II Diabetics
gain weight because the excess insulin (the storage hormone) prevents the
mobilization of free fatty acids to be burned for energy.

Could the problem be that the
“Politically Correct? diet recommendations are in fact less than correct for
the majority. Scientific publications contain a wealth of documentation
demonstrating that excess insulin may be the culprit responsible for excess
weight gain. Dr. Norman Kaplan, author of the medical text book “Clinical
Hypertension? states ?most overweight people are hyper-insulinemic’ (too much
insulin in the bloodstream). Dr. Calvin Ezrin, professor of endocrinology at
UCLA and author of “The Endocrine Control Diet and its second edition “The Type
II Diabetics Diet? outlines very clearly the research on hyperinsulinemia and
its many negative effects on human health.

Insulin, the famous storage hormone
secreted by the pancreas in response to elevated blood sugar, might be dubbed
the Good guy / Bad guy. You can’t live without it, just ask any Type I Diabetic
but too much causes a virtual smorgasbord (pardon the pun) of problems.

Problems like :

·        
Frequent hunger

        ·        
Fat storage

·        
Sodium retention - leading to fluid retention and
hypertension

·        
Essential Fatty Acid Metabolic interference leading to hormonal     imbalances and inflammatory conditions

·        
Elevated cholesterol and triglycerides

        ·        
Prostate growth.
 

Excess insulin
is the result of either a condition of insulin resistance or from an over
sensitized pancreas which over produces insulin in the presence of rapidly
rising blood sugar. Regardless of the cause the ONLY SOLUTION is to control the
amount of blood sugar and the rate at which blood sugar rises.

So to answer the question
posed in the title: Because you are not controlling your blood insulin
levels.

The only way to control blood
insulin levels is through careful and responsible selection of carbohydrate
sources and to exercise. Exercise does reduce insulin levels but only for about
two hours (less if you follow your exercise with a high carbohydrate drink or
snack which is a good idea to speed recovery following exhaustive exercise?not
a good idea following moderate aerobic exercise designed to help you burn
Calories and lose weight).

I have found the least painful and
healthiest way for dietary control of insulin is to follow a food selection
program of 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% fat. (Remember that even the
American Heart Association does not endorse fat intakes below 30%). This plan
has been dubbed the 40-30-30 plan as opposed to the typical dietary habits and
recommendation of 60-15-25 or 55-15-30 or the athletes diet of 60-20-20. A few
simple rules need to followed in a 40-30-30 eating plan (which is not a short
term “diet? but rather a responsible lifestyle choice):?           Eat
protein in every meal and every snack?no exceptions

            ? Eat
some of your protein and fat first to control the rate of blood sugar        Elevation     
?  Choose
low Glycemic Index (raise blood sugar slowly) vegetable and         fruit as your main sources of carbohydrates. They have higher
nutritional     density per Calorie and more fibre. Minimize pop, juice, dried
fruit,             bananas, root vegetables, and corn.
? Choose
fewer grain products as your carbohydrate choices and always         use the most
unprocessed versions.

            ?  Essential
Fatty Acids (EFAs) and high quality proteins are the “spark             plugs to
metabolism? choose them wisely. Be sure there are some EFAs     in every meal.

?  Food
Supplementation is not an option for enduring good health. It is a     necessity. -Start with a complete and reputable Multi Vitamin and
some      EFAs like Lecithin and GLA.

Good choice examples

Breakfast: 2 eggs,
½cup plain yogurt, 1 slice whole grain bread, 1cup strawberries and 1 Tbsp of
slivered almonds (adds good fat).

Lunch: 4 oz.
grilled chicken, 2 cups of lettuce, ¼ cup each of onions, mushrooms and
tomatoes, some spices of choice with 2 Tbsp of Oil & vinegar dressing and
an orange for desert.

Dinner: 5½ oz.
fish fillets, and ½ oz of shredded cheese ; 1 cup chopped spinach salad with
onion, red pepper and lemon juice and 2 Tbsp of oil & vinegar dressing. ½ a
pear for desert.

2 snacks for the
day could include : ½ cup of plain yogurt or 1 oz of cheddar cheese and

½ an apple, or 1 cup of 1% milk and
4-6 almonds or 1 oz of soft cheese and 1 cup V-8 juice

I don’t count Calories in this program, I only offer
them here as a frame of reference. Your nutritional choices are far more
important than the number of Calories. High quality diets are automatically
lower in Calories because it is easier to supply the nutrient demands. This
would be approximately a 1300 Calorie day and I can assure you will not feel
hungry , You will have lots of energy and you will lose weight if you need to.

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