Our bodies are meant to be able to get energy from several different fuel sources - glucose, fat, ketones
But for many of us due to our carb heavy diets and sedentary lifestyles we’ve trained our bodies to rely on carbs/sugar as our primary energy source.
As a result our bodies have sort have forgotten how to use our body fat (or ketones) for energy. This happens when we have become insulin resistant
Read MoreThis was me. I was eating healthy and exercising…diligently tracking every bite that went into my mouth…
But despite spending a good part of my day thinking about food – what I’m going to eat? When? How much? Will this make me fat?
Read MoreCheats can also give you insight about the particular diet you’re following. Did you cheat because you were feeling hungry? Deprived? Maybe this means there’s a piece missing from the diet that is making it harder for you – is it not enough food? Missing favorite comfort foods? Maybe the food isn’t really satisfying you.
Read MoreIf you’ve tried it that way before you know you just end up, hungry, grumpy, fighting cravings and feeling deprived…not a fun way to live…
Read MoreIf you’re not diabetic you probably don’t give much thought to what’s going on with your insulin – but for many of us that are struggling to lose weight this important hormone may be the reason weight loss feels so hard.
Read MoreI want to eat healthy but I don’t want to have to spend all my free time in the kitchen.
When I first started out, I was tired, like bone tired. Like any energy that I had went into just getting through the day kinda tired.
The last thing I wanted to do was have to spend hours in the kitchen cooking and meal prepping. Just the thought of adding one more thing to my plate at that point just felt like torture.
Read MoreWhat is that saying…the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result??
We tend to do that with weight loss for sure.
How many times have you tried to lose weight…and just like the last time you start cutting calories, trying to exist on salads, and literally try to work your ass off in the gym.
You might do ok for a few days, maybe a few weeks but sometimes we’re just lucky if we make it to noon….
Read MoreI like simple…
If it’s complicated, time consuming or requires me to set up too many things I won’t do it! I feel the same when it comes to health and weight loss. We really make it all more complicated than it needs to be.
Read MoreI had no idea that my blood sugar played a role in why I struggled with my weight, or why I had awful periods, or that it was why I barely had the energy to get through the day. I also didn’t know it played a big role my anxiety and depression. It was also the reason I was ALWAYS hungry and fighting off crazy sugar cravings.
Read MoreWhen we’re trying to lose weight we tend to see food in terms of calories – How many calories does this have? And will it make me fat? How can I burn off the extra calories? We need to stop that!
Read MoreThe more crap we eat – empty calories – the more calories we're likely to consume because we're eating but still not giving your cells what they actually need so we get hungry more often.
Read MoreIf you’ve been told that you are insulin resistant this doesn’t mean that weight loss is impossible. There are some things that you can do to improve your insulin sensitivity.
And luckily most of them aren’t all that hard.
Read MoreBlood sugar issues can present themselves in so many different ways. I remember when I first started this journey seeing a list of signs of blood sugar dysregulation and insulin resistance. As I read down that list I realized I had experienced EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Read MoreI had previously lost 50+ lbs and had managed to keep it off for a few years, but here I was gaining weight again. But the frustrating part was that I was still doing all those things that I had started doing to lose the weight last time. I was still “eating clean” and exercising 2-2 ½ hours a day. I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on!
I started to feel like I was broken – maybe just doomed to be overweight….
I knew I couldn’t eat less (I already struggled with hypoglycemia) and there weren’t enough hours in the day to exercise more and actually do things like have a job or sleep.
Read MoreYour body needs your blood sugar to be at an optimal level. It should be high enough, so you're not light-headed, fatigued, and irritable. It should be low enough that your body isn't scrambling to remove excess from the blood. Keeping that right balance is crucial.
Read MoreThis is one of the best, easiest, simplest, cheapest, yet one of the most underutilized and under-rated forms of exercise.
You can do it most anywhere and best yet it doesn’t cost a thing! No equipment, no membership, nothing special to buy - not even the shoes if you don’t want to, because the beauty is we were actually designed to do it barefoot!
We all know that there are certain things that we should or shouldn’t do when we are trying to lose weight or improve health; but sometimes even things we may think of as good or healthy can be a problem. We all know we probably shouldn’t be diving face first into the box of donuts or digging into that bag of leftover Halloween candy if we want to lose weight; but there are some other things that can halt progress that may not be so obvious.
Read MoreI know we all want results yesterday, but there really is no rush...we have our whole lives to get to where we want to be. I want you to enjoy the process and make the changes in a way that makes sense for you and your life! In a way that's lasting!
Read MoreYour journey is your journey and you have your whole life to get to your destination- one step at a time! Please stop trying to make it a race to the finish line!
Read MoreYou’ve had a stressful day. It started out with finding out ants invaded your kitchen, you got the kids to school late again, then you found out forgot a key document in that important project that was due today at work. All you can think about is going home and diving head first into a box of donuts.
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