Prediabetes is a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal (normal range 70-100mg/dL) but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes (levels over 125mg/dL). Risk factors include being overweight (BMI > 25), being older than 45, high blood pressure, and family history. Pre-diabetics are at a very high risk for developing Type II diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
The typical recommendation is to eat less and exercise more. The problem with that equation is that it is not sustainable. Exercise makes you more hungry because the energy requirement of the body is increased. Exercise is great for preventing, or even reversing prediabetes. 30 minutes 5 times per week, or 150 minutes total, has been linked to a reduction in blood glucose levels. However, it is almost impossible for people to eat less when they exercise this much. If it were easy, 86 million Americans would not be prediabetic.
Furthermore, most people think that eating fewer calories is best accomplished by eating less fat, because fat has roughly double the calorie content per gram that carbohydrates. Let’s get something straight here: The “calories in/calories out” mindset is critically flawed. This is because the TYPE of calories you eat influences how your body burns FAT. Not all calories are created equal: If you eat a diet of 1000 calories per day consisting of 70% carbohydrate, you will gain weight, not lose it! You’ll also be heading straight toward prediabetes or diabetes, because your blood glucose levels will increase and remained elevated on such a diet. That is because INSULIN determines whether you get fatter or leaner from each meal you eat, and insulin is released when there are carbohydrates in a meal. Protein and fat, however have little to no effect on the secretion of insulin into the blood. So, to put it simply, if you control your insulin level, you will control your weight.
Losing weight does NOT mean STARVING yourself, it means controlling your insulin, and therefore your bloodsugar levels. You can eat until you’re full and lose weight, if you EAT THE RIGHT KINDS OF FOOD. We can teach you how to eat well and lose weight! There are two options:
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