To Control The Insulin, I’m Gonna Try Eliminating ‘Sweet’ From My Diet

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 6:24 pm

As you may or may not know, I’ve been blogging my daily menus for nearly a year now at the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Menus” blog so that people can see every single bite of food I am putting inside my mouth as well as the exercise I am engaged in on any given day. The blog was never meant to be the “perfect” way for someone to be eating a low-carb diet, but merely a reflection of how this particular low-carber chooses to consume food. Much to my surprise, though, the interest in my menus blog grew and grew as the year has progressed primarily because of a sudden 25-30 pound weight gain at the beginning of the year that I have been unable to get under control despite multiple attempts that have all been documented at that blog.

With that said, starting today I am implementing not just a sugar-free diet, but a “sweet”-free low-carb lifestyle for at least the next 30 days to see what impact this will have on my body. My hope is that the extra pounds that came on this year will melt away and I’ll see an improvement in my GTT the next time I have it run. It’s not gonna be easy for me because my biggest weakness prior to beginning my low-carb lifestyle was sweets. I love chocolate and I could eat and drink anything sweet until I’m blue in the face. But that was then and this is now. The time is right for me to try this plan of action.

Click here to find out where I got the idea to remove “sweet” from my diet as a means for controlling insulin and what this new strategy will look like in action.