TO LOSE FAT, LEARN TO MANAGE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR!

The way to lose fat and keep it off is to manage your blood sugar. I’m not talking about fasting to lower the blood sugar that doctors test you for, but lowering blood sugar levels one to two hours after eating a meal. The secret is to speed up fat loss and to do that, you need to slow down the sugar. After a meal, blood sugar levels rise and the pancreas produces insulin, which delivers glucose, or blood sugar, to the muscle cells. As blood sugar levels drop, insulin levels drop, and the pancreas produces hormones called glucagons. At the same time, nutrients stored in fat cells are released to the blood and used for energy.

Here’s why it’s so important to manage the rise and fall of blood sugar: If blood sugar levels are too high, insulin feeds the muscle cells and deposits excess sugar into your fat cells. If blood sugar levels fall too low, your muscle cells are underfed. What you want is a slow rise in the in blood sugar. This provides good nutrition to the muscles. A slow drop in levels allows glucagons to take fat from the fat cells.

Insulin resistance occurs when receptors on the muscle cell membranes stop accepting insulin and thus glucose is not delivered into the cell. It’s as if the receptors were doors to the cell and the insulin is the key that unlocks the doors, allowing glucose to enter. While

you can be genetically predisposed to becoming insulin resistant, more commonly it is your lifestyle that interferes with the door-opening that insulin does. Insulin resistance causes some doors to remain closed and the blood sugar has no place to go but to remain in the blood or enter the fat cells. Proper nutrition and regular exercise can prevent or reverse insulin resistance.

B-fit! Train hard!

To your health,

Ailina