Are You Insulin Resistant?

5 Tips for Getting Off The Slippery Slope to

Diabetes and Obesity

Are you insulin resistant?

Do any of these common symptoms of insulin resistance fit you?

1. You’re carrying extra abdominal fat and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to lose belly fat.

2. You have an apple-shaped body. You tend to store fat around the waist, abdomen and generally the mid-section of the torso.

3. You find yourself feeling lethargic and sleepy and your mind feels foggy after a large carbohydrate-based meal.

4. You find yourself constantly hungry and you have almost uncontrollable food cravings.

If any of these symptoms described you, then you're likely insulin resistant.

Experts have estimated that over 50 million people (that’s in the U.S. alone!) are insulin resistant.

They’re in a pre-diabetic state, and most of them don’t even know it or worse yet, they find out when it’s too late.

You could say that diabetes and obesity begins with insulin resistance.

What causes you to become Insulin Resistant?

When we eat simple carbohydrates, they convert to sugar at lightening fast speeds.

This causes the body to react by releasing a flood of insulin in an effort to deal with the sudden influx of all that sugar.

These spikes, when repeated often enough, will eventually cause cells that would normally respond to insulin to become desensitized.

The pancreas becomes stressed because it’s now forced to pick up the slack and work harder to produce more insulin to metabolize these simple carbohydrates that are flooding the blood stream.

When the body becomes overwhelmed with sugar it can also release more insulin than it actually needs.

This now causes a sudden crash in blood sugar creating a temporary state of low blood sugar.

This state of low blood sugar now sends a message to your brain signaling that it’s time to eat again…and the cycle continues.

If your body is constantly put through this type of sudden rise and drop in blood sugar, eventually you become insulin resistant and your metabolism all but packs up and checks out.

All in all, it can become one great big metabolic nightmare!

The end result is that you end up with more abdominal fat, a suppressed immune system, fatigue, depression and you’ll also be at high risk for a whole host of other more serious health problems.

5 Helpful Tips to Getting Off The Slippery Slope to Diabetes and Obesity

1. Avoid refined and simple carbohydrate foods.

That’s any foods that have been processed, packaged or refined to death. Sweets and sugary desserts and foods are good examples.

2. Eat a low glycemic index diet

Foods that have a low glycemic index break down slower and don’t create the extreme blood sugar spikes I’ve described. They keep blood sugar levels more balanced, especially when eaten with a protein.

Click the link below for a free glycemic index chart of low glycemic index foods.

Glycemic Index Chart of Low Glycemic Index Foods

3. Take more Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a powerful anti-oxidant that has been shown to help fight off Type II Diabetes. It also boosts carnitine levels that help burn fat! Talk about a triple-whammy!

Foods high in Vitamin C are broccoli, peppers, citrus fruits, strawberries.

Aim for 1,000 – 1,200 mg. of Vitamin C daily. You may even want to take a Vitamin C supplement along with your daily multi-vitamin.

4. Avoid high carbohydrate diets

A typical diet these days contains 50-60% of calories from carbohydrates.

A low glycemic, low carbohydrate, higher protein diet has been shown to be especially effective in treating pre-diabetic conditions. If you're insulin resistant, you're pre-diabetic.

5. Become more active - Exercise daily

Follow a weight loss exercise program. Become more physically active.

An unbalanced and unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise can rob you of your health.

If you suspect that you’re insulin resistant or well on your way down that slippery slope to diabetes and obesity, consider incorporating these 5 tips into your lifestyle.

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The Glycemic Index Chart

Including the glycemic Index list into a healthy diet plan to help reduce belly fat.

Free Glycemic Index Chart Lists of high glycemic foods, medium and low glycemic foods

Replacing high glycemic foods with medium and low glycemic foods can help boost fat loss and reduce belly fat fast.

Glycemic Index Chart of Low Glycemic Index Foods

Lose belly fat fast by eating the low glycemic foods on this glycemic index chart.

Glycemic Index Chart of Medium Glycemic Index Foods

Eating foods in the medium glycemic index list SPARINGLY will help you lose belly fat fast.

Glycemic Index Chart of High Glycemic Index Foods

Avoid these high glycemic foods to help you reduce belly fat and lose weight.

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