Avocados, Weight Loss and Insulin
Amongst many important other things, insulin is the powerful hormone
that removes excessive glucose from your blood. It stores this excess
glucose, in small amounts in the liver and muscles, but once those are
full, in your waist’s adipose fat cells.To make matters worse, this
process of storing carbohydrates as fat regularly leads to low blood
sugar. This stimulates more hunger for carbs and the process repeats
itself again.
It has been named the insulin rollercoaster for obvious reasons. But
you have to ask yourself, are those short sugar highs really worth the
constant hunger and resulting tiredness and weight gain that so many of
us are putting ourselves through on it each day?
The only good time for a big carbohydrate meal is the night before
heavy exercise if your fitness level is already high. For most of us,
there’s a more steady energy level and a natural and effective weight
loss in an eating plan low in high glycemic carbohydrates like
grains. Instead base your meals around nutritious vegetables, healthy
sources of protein and beneficial fats like those found in avocado.
Breakfast is actually the most important meal of the day for weight
loss. By making low-carbohydrate and high-protein avocado recipes, such
as the delicious avocado breakfast omelette
coming up next, you can start off your morning with your hunger
satisfied and not feeling the need to eat for much longer than if you
had toast or cereal.
It’s eating like this, not counting calories, starving yourself or
trying to avoid all fats, especially healthy ones like those found in
avocados and particularly nuts like almonds, that is the real key to effective weight loss.