Is Your Meal Plan Causing the Majority of Your Symptoms?
PART 1
Blood Sugar Stability Many individuals have heard the words “blood sugar” used together before. It is the marker on the blood test that doctors often use to tell you if you’re becoming prediabetic or diabetic. Blood sugar stability, meaning how stable your blood sugar is throughout the day and night, is vital to your metabolism, mood, sleep, stress control, energy, strength, and ultimately how efficiently your body is functioning. Blood sugar stability is basically the dictator of your quality of life. How do you know if your blood sugar is stable throughout the day and night? Well, I am glad you asked. The one blood test that looks at your glucose level is not enough to determine your blood sugar stability. Other blood tests, like Hemoglobin A1c, Serum Insulin, Triglyceride Level, and HDL (Good Cholesterol) level, can help to determine your risk factors for a metabolic dysfunction called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance occurs before prediabetes and means that your body is not metabolizing food efficiently — specifically carbohydrates and sugar. Long story short, this is what starts to cause the symptoms you are feeling that were disclosed above. Insulin resistance is most affected by too many carbohydrates, sugar, and alcohol in the diet without enough lean proteins. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging reports that 1 in 3 Americans aged 50-plus are consuming diets that are protein- deficient. Protein is the main building block of the cells in our body. It is vital to break down sugars and stabilize our blood sugar levels. If our meal plan does not have the proper ratio of carbohydrates, healthy fats, and proteins, our blood sugar becomes unstable. To say it simply, your blood sugar rising and falling throughout the day and night classifies as unstable blood sugar. You typically will not feel this happening as it is happening inside your body. This instability of the blood sugar is causing the body to store food, which is converted to sugar. Stored sugar is then turned into adipose (fat) tissue in our body. Blood sugar instability is a primary cause of your weight gain. This should be evaluated deeper from within by checking your blood tests. This has been a lot of information. We will continue to dive into this in the March Newsletter. Stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3! –Jenni Berman
• Are you tired throughout the day for three or more days per week? • Are you frustrated by abdominal fat? • Are you gaining weight despite your best efforts to diet and exercise? • Are you stressed three or more days per week? • Are you waking up throughout the night or having trouble falling asleep? • Are you crashing around 2–3 p.m. in the afternoon? • Have you been told your blood sugar level is borderline or increasing? Well … If you answered yes to two or more of these questions … keep reading. If you didn’t answer yes to two or more of these questions … keep reading because you are going to learn something that will help you regardless, and you will certainly learn something that could help someone close to you. Let ME Tell YOU … Feeling tired throughout the day, having less energy than you used to, and getting the “muffin-top” around your midsection or the “apple belly” is not part of the normal aging process. Waking up at night, having difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, and having less patience is not part of the normal aging process. Feeling more stressed, anxious, and frustrated is not part of the normal aging process. And you should not be increasing the amount of medications and pills you are taking just to treat these symptoms you are having. Yes, you are experiencing symptoms. We need to identify the cause of these things you are feeling and treat this to see success. So, let’s dive into it and unpack what we are actually trying to say … If you are struggling with weight loss, there are three main areas to look at initially. Once these three areas have been analyzed, then it is time to dig deeper, deeper, and deeper until you find the root cause of the weight component. 1. Blood sugar stability 2. Cortisol hormone (To be continued next month …) 3. Gut Health Vitamin Levels (To be continued next month …)
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