It is the time of the year when many people decide to go on a diet. Have you decided that you need to lose weight? This is usually prompted by seeing unwanted fat on your body or because you feel fat.
Unfortunately, going on a diet is just a short term solution to the way you look and feel. Most diets result in the weight being regained, when you finish dieting. Something more is needed, if you want to lose weight and keep it off permanently.
You can achieve weight loss that will be permanent, by changing your eating routines. If you would like to do this, you have to learn about and understand what goes on in your body when you eat.
Your body converts the food that you eat into glucose. Glucose is also called blood sugar. This is the primary source of energy for your body. When your body converts food into glucose, it also produces insulin. Your body cant use glucose for energy, if insulin is not present.
A large quantity of glucose in your body makes you fatter.
The amount of glucose in your body is determined by four factors. The first is the amount of food you eat. The more food you eat, the more glucose will be in your body. However there are three other factors that also determine how much glucose is in your body.
It is likely that you know about the fattening effect of eating too much simple sugar. The more cake, pastry, donuts, cookies, chocolate and deserts you consume, the fatter you will get.
But it is likely that you do not know about the other two factors that make you fatter.
One of these factors has to do with how often you eat something. To keep the amount of glucose in your system from being high, you should eat something every 2-3 hours. If you do not do this, or if you skip a meal, the next time you eat there will be a large amount of glucose in your system – even if you eat sensibly.
If you eat 2 or more starchy carbohydrates during the same meal, the glucose in your system will rise to a high level. One starchy carb is not a problem. Starchy carbohydrates are potato, pasta, rice, bread, pizza, dough, cake, cookies etc. We eat bread with so many of our meals that contain other starchy carbs. We eat bread with our evening meal that also has potato, rice or pasta. With eat hamburgers and fries and sandwiches with potato chips or potato salad.
There really is a lot more for you to know about eating routines, that will help you to control your weight over the long term. If you just take some action to adjust your eating patterns, it would be a good start toward gaining control over your weight.
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