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Lindsay
Nov 25, 05 - 2:27 AM |
Help me
Hi...I am an active 19year old...I have just returned from a Gap Year and so am carrying a bit more weight than i want to. I also have PCOS (Polycyctic ovary syndrome) am hypoglycemic and have insulin resisitance. I have started following Low Carb made easy...The first week i lost 1.4kg which was fantastic but the second week I only lost 0.4kg, not so fantastic. I need to be losing at least 1kg a week because i have my cousin's wedding in 6 weeks time. I am following the suggestions religiously and am cycling for at least 40min every day...sometimes twice a day. Breakfast is usually bacon and tomato...grilled, lunch is a salad or warmed ham, cheese and tomato and then usually a snack at 4/5 in the afternoon - tomatos (baby ones) or a slice of ham. Dinner is a protein...fish,steak,chicken with low carb veg -brocolli, cabbage, mediterrainean veggies or something like that. Also wanted to ask if anyone knows whether the artificial sweetner aspartamene raises sugar levels. Hopefully someone has some suggestions as to how i can further speed up the weightloss. Thanks again Lindsay |
Jackie at Low Carb is Easy
 Nov 26th, 2005 - 6:58 AM |
Re: Help me
Lindsay Welcome aboard! The latest research says that you're doing the very best thing you can do for your overall health, not just your weight, by going low carb. PCOS, hypoglycemia, insulin resistance - they're all related, and low carbing gives you the best chance of avoiding problems such as diabetes, infertility etc etc in the longer term. Real fat loss can't be hurried! More than 1kg per week for a woman isn't likely to be healthy weight loss ie breakdown of your fat stores. (Weight loss can also consist of water, or worse, lean muscle tissue which is definitely what you don't want). Your basic low carb diet looks OK, if perhaps a little light on the salads, veggies, good fats and other nutrient and fibre rich foods such as for instance flax seeds (you don't give exact details of what veggies etc and how much of them you eat). Whatever you do, don't try eating less, or your body will probably go into famine mode, and then you'll be properly stuck on a plateau! Just concentrate on eating well, fitting as many nutrients (vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids etc) in as possible, and keep in mind that weight loss can go slow for lots of reasons - most of them nothing to do with eating too many calories. Keep in mind, too, that muscle weighs more than fat, so if you're replacing fat with muscle (which you probably are with the cycling), then that's GOOD! The scales might not say so, but you should see results over time with the tape measure. Artificial sweeteners are a very tricky subject. Some types (polyols) such as maltitol, lactitol, sorbitol are absorbed to a different extent by individual people, so you may get a higher or lower insulin effect than the next person. Types such as aspartame and saccharine and supposed not to raise blood sugar because they have no carbs, but research says that many people produce insulin when the taste buds recognise something as sweet, whether or not it contains carbs. In fact, some go so far as to say that insulin can be produced as a response to just seeing a tasty food - now, that's really bad news but it could be that there's more truth than we realise in the saying 'I only have to look at a cream cake to put on weight'. Aspartame is also reputed to have additional nasty side effects that the other artificial sweeteners don't have. It is an excitotoxin and has been called a 'metabolic disrupter' (so is Monosodium glutamate, which is found in most processed foods). Low carbers are apparently particularly exposed to this side effect because their brains may not always be protected by the presence of lots of glucose. The food industry has for years relied upon the fact that the glutamates in MSG (and aspartame) are prevented from getting across the blood/brain barrier because they are consumed in the presence of carbohydrate foods to be able to defend their products on the food safety front. So my personal advice is to avoid aspartame like the plague! Sucralose (Splenda) is seen to be comparatively safe, or you could try the sweetening herb stevia. So - I don't think you can speed up the weight loss any more - but you may actually be progressing faster than you think. Just don't give up - this diet is the best for your long term health, particularly with your medical history. Despite what you might see in the media, it is not a crash diet, it's a healthy way of eating which in due course will probably be seen as a healthier and more effective long term way of controlling weight and reducing risks for heart disease, cancer etc for most people than the low fat/low calorie diet. Hope this helps Jackie |
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