It’s so hard to find yourself, listen to yourself and trust
yourself when we are constantly bombarded with things in the media that people
are simply just trying to make a profit out of really.. I think it’s important
to knowledge yourself and trial these things first before setting your whole
heart and soul into it and to find different aspects that you can take and
transform them into something that works for you. Basically my main concern with the current
media is this craze with low carb diets.
Now before you stop reading I’m not going to try and
convince you to eat high carb and cut out this and that, I really just want to
stress the fact that you should not be trying to cut out or limit carbs
completely because this comes with great health concerns, a healthy sustainable
diet must incorporate carbohydrates.
So, Why are you binging? You are simply undercarbed, your
body is craving and needing energy and it won’t stop until it gets it, and
where does your body get it’s energy? FOOD, food is the bodies external source
of fuel, you cannot restrict or deny a car it’s petrol when it needs it or when
it is running low, it simply will not run as effectively or will break down..
Restricting and binging causes a great deal of stress on
your body, it begins to confuse your body and metabolism and throw it out of
whack, your body will begin to store whatever you eat rather than burning it
off because it simply doesn’t know when it will get fed next for energy, so it
stores anything it can get in case it runs out of energy again when the
restricting cycle begins again.
No motivation? Part of a healthy diet is being active, I’m
not saying you need to go to the gym or be a marathon runner, I’m talking
simply just moving your body in any way that you enjoy. When you have no energy
(no carbs left in the tank) this takes away your desire to move and get out
there and get shit done! Not only in terms of being active but even in terms of
everyday activities/tasks.. (I easily wake at 6am every morning ready to get
out of bed and go for the day and I ensure that everyday I eat my carbs to
provide me with a goodnights rest and motivation to get up in the morning.) Through
all of this ‘undercarbedness’ you easily begin to become inactive and
unmotivated (our desire and drive to achieve day to day activities, tasks,
challenges etc..) resulting in achieving less which then goes to affect your
mental health and you can become down and depressed and struggle to deal with
and handle your emotions, you start sleeping poorly and this cycle just
continues!
But do loose weight cutting out carbs? Yes you can loose
weight short term on a low carb diet through loosing water weight. Your body
requires 3grams of water for every gram of carbohydrate stored, so if you’re
cutting your carb intake your body requires less water. Though this isn’t a
good thing, we want fat loss not water loss! Water hydrates the body, it boosts
the metabolism, boosts energy, flushes out toxins, aids in concentration, regulates your body temperature, makes up 75%
of your muscles, 83% of blood and 22% of bones, it helps your body to absorb and
carry nutrients and the list goes on.
So how do we get fat loss? Simply eat less fat rich foods,
including your healthy fats, healthy fats are greater processed by the body
than saturated fats and obviously provide great essential vitamins and
minerals, so by no means eliminate fat but fat should be getting reduced rather
than carbohydrates, carbs are our first energy sources and are the most easily
digested so it only makes sense to have more energy from the food you’re eating
and less energy spent digesting it, resulting in greater energy for you to have
and use. By no means do we want to limit
that and have water loss instead.
When we have those binges, not even just binges, but even if
we start adding in more carbs gradually and some carbs begin to come back into
the body, the body requires more water for the carbohydrate storage so the
weight comes back anyway and if this cycle continues your weight will continue
to fluctuate and again confuse your body!
Based on above a low carb diet is clearly not a sustainable
lifestyle LONG TERM, eventually you will binge on food or begin to become
unmotivated, inactive and unhappy and gradually gaining the weight back.. and
possibly more because remember you’ve slowed do your metabolism and your body
is storing everything it can get! And plus you’ve only lost water weight so
that’ll come back almost immediately and extremely easily. Why would you put your poor body that works so
hard to get the best out of each day through that, through so much pressure and
stress, fuel your body so you can get the best out of yourself, treat your body
right and it’ll be able to treat you right in return, it makes sense doesn’t
it?
And remember the fat that we eat is the fat that we wear,
fat = fat.. even healthy fats, if you look it up a lot of ‘expert’s’ recommend limiting
all fats and having portion control with healthy fats, I’m sure you’ve all heard
about the 14 almond limit, but just find what works for you and don’t eliminate
carbs completely because they aren’t the devil, our bodies do need them!
Knowledge is power, use your own mind to interpret it based
on who you are, don’t let others influence you, be yourself, take what you want
from this post and all of my others and form your own opinion and speak it!
Lil xx
Lil xx
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