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Originally posted by April Duval on 2021-11-25 on the Wheat Belly Blog (⇩cite). | PCM forum 🛈Index of WB Blog articles. PCM,WBB,holidays,greetings
May the Thanksgiving season find you counting your blessings and NOT your calories!!
For some of us we have lived a lifetime of hearing: “To lose weight, you need to eat less and exercise more.” “Balance calories in with calories out.” “Move more, eat less.” “A calorie is a calorie.”
Conventional dietary advice for controlling weight simply isn’t working and is not true. All calories are far from equal. For example, 1,000 calories of baked goods are not the same as 1,000 calories of meat, vegetables or olive oil. When it comes to calories, forget about counting them at all!
So what should you count? Carbohydrates!!!
Carbohydrates from sources of grains are particularity dangerous. Grain consumption stimulates the appetite, causing you to feel hungry all the time – some of us would even say hangry. Grains spike blood sugar levels, and what goes up must come down. Blood sugar highs are inevitably followed by blood sugar lows with shakiness, mental cloudiness, and hunger, a cycle that sets the grain-consumer in an endless hunt for food all day long. A constant blood sugar roller coaster. When we live the Wheat Belly or Undoctored lifestyle we aim to keep blood sugars steady by focusing on net carbs.
We follow this simple rule: Never exceed 15 grams net carbohydrates per meal. We calculate net carbs by the following simple equation:
NET CARBS = TOTAL CARBS – FIBER
By exceeding 15 gram net carbs per meal, it turns off your ability to lose weight for that entire day, as well as delay any hope of reversing high blood sugars and insulin resistance. Here are four tips for managing carbs:
Focus on fats One of the most common mistakes people make in the Wheat Belly or Undoctored lifestyle is to remain fearful of fats. They continue to hold onto old misconceptions such as “fats raise cholesterol,” or “fat causes heart disease,” or “fats are calorie-dense and therefore make you fat.” None of this is true, no more true than “healthy whole grains” are a key to overall health.
Getting sufficient fat in your meal is satiating, curbs cravings and eliminates impulsive eating behaviors. Here are some strategies that can help you get more fat:
Enjoy a happy and healthy holiday season!!
From Dr. Davis and the Wheat Belly and Undoctored Team
The original WBB post was found on the: ⎆Infinite Health Blog when this mirror was last revised, but accessing it there can require an unnecessary separate blog membership. The copy of it above is complete, and has been re-curated and enhanced for the Inner Circle membership.