It’s January and many of us turn our attention to improving our health.
Inevitably, thoughts turn to dieting with the aim of losing weight.
Nearly all diets rely on calorie restriction- the concept being that if we eat fewer calories
than we burn, we will lose weight.
This leads to the advice to “eat less and exercise more”.
However, our weight and our hunger levels are largely under the influence of 2 extremely
powerful hormones – insulin and leptin.
Most calorie restricted and low-fat diets fight against these hormones, leaving us hungry
and lethargic.
They certainly work in the short term, but we just won't have enough will power to fight
these 2 powerful hormones - insulin and leptin.
Many people who are trying to lose weight do in fact have a problem called Metabolic
Syndrome – a condition in which there continuously high levels of insulin.
Once we address this hormonal imbalance, we can make great strides towards improving our
health and losing weight.
An approach to weight loss that is proving to be extremely successful is to concentrate
on balancing insulin levels.
In this way, our health improves and a healthy weight naturally follows without feeling hungry
and without counting calories.
By eating real food that has been prepared here in the kitchen, from natural ingredients
such as meat from the butcher and vegetables from the greengrocer, we can get our metabolism
improved, our insulin levels are balanced and we will know when we are full after a
meal.
We will know what our body needs, we will feel full when our food nourishes us and our
body will be healthy and our weight will naturally adjust to a healthy level, without hunger.
It is appropriate that I am standing here in the kitchen.
Because, I firmly believe that health, including a healthy weight starts right here in the
kitchen.
Eating real food results in eating fewer carbohydrates.
Many experts now believe that eating excessive quantities of carbohydrates is the root cause
of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, possibly some cancers and also possibly Alzheimer’s
disease.
So as we approach the end of January 2018, I would suggest that you consider a different
way of approaching your diet and weight loss goals.
In fact, I suggest we abandon the idea of a diet and that we think in terms of eating
Real Nutritious Food, which is not processed and which is naturally low in carbohydrates
but which contains healthy fats and sufficient amounts of protein.
A great resource if you want to know more about this approach, together with great recipes
for you to try in your kitchen is the website dietdoctor.com