Glucose goddess

[Iwannabehealhty]

Anyone want to join me with following the 10 principles.

I have two stone to loose but I've tried and failed all calorie controlled diets, ww, slimming world. I want to understand how food is processed when I eat it and how that affects my body in terms of health and obviously weight loss.

I am wearing a CGM and trying not to spike my sugars, so I need less insulin which should help reduce fat storage.

In the first week, the scales have gone down by 4kg, I guess this will slow down. But going in the right direction.

@Iwannabehealhty Good Luck I'm on mounjaro since Nov lost just under 3 stone

I’ve been following the hacks for 2 weeks now, going into week 3 and I’ve lost 9lbs (about 4kg I think??) but I haven’t been super strict, in fact I’ve barely followed it on the weekends 😬

Would love to join for accountability, I’m going to be much stricter from now as ideally I’d like to lose 3 stone, but 2 would get me back to a healthy bmi so anything between 2-3 stone would be ideal.

Is there a summary of the hacks anywhere? I watched the show and found it interesting. I definitely need to eat fewer carbs overall and stop eating sugary rubbish. If for no other reason than I need the nutrition and I can't be wasting calories on empty food!

I recall eating veg before a meal being one?
And always having some fat or protein with carbs?
What are some of the others?

@manicm0nday great loss so far- have you changed your diet or are you just applying the hacks to your previous diet plan?

I'll answer my own question and post this here for reference!

@manicm0nday well done so far. I have been quite strict and guess over time I won't be so much. As the novelty and concentration wears off

@thethenewaveragebear1983
www.glucosegoddess.com/en-gb.

If you out in your email they will email you a pdf of the 'hacks' (hate that word 😂)

For a healthy bmi I need to loose 10kg. As long as I am moving towards that number I'll be happy, however long that takes for me 😊

@Iwannabehealhty I'm at the top end of healthy bmi (24.9) but it's too big for me, I feel uncomfortable in all my clothes now and really bottom heavy. I really struggle to lose weight, and I struggle to eat low enough consistently to lose. So I'm hoping that applying a few of these will help maximise my results. I definitely could easily do eat veg first, eat carbs with fat/protein, and the veggie starter.

@thenewaveragebear1983 Thanks for sharing those, I was interested in them too. Don't hacks 3 and 5 contradict each other a bit though? Glucose is better than fructose but all sugars are equal?

Thanks @Iwannabehealhty well done to you too…I kind of started it without a proper plan and have had a really busy few weeks but have meal planned for this week and hopefully can keep to it a bit more closely.

Thank you @thenewaveragebear1983 I have changed my diet but that’s happened quite naturally with the hacks. I’ve swapped sugary breakfast to a savoury one and that has stopped all of my snacking. I’m also not craving sweet things at all but I previously relied quite heavily on sugar throughout the day - I have a baby who still wakes every 2 hours at night so I used to think the sugar kept me going all day but I have so much more energy now I’m not spiking my blood sugar all day.

What I quite like about this is that it's something we can do life long, just changing simple habits to improve health. I also like that it's not restrictive.

It's good to hear it's helping with restless nights when waking for you baby too. I'm hoping I sleep better as I think I'm in the first stages of peri menopause.

I found her when I had GD and the hacks were really helpful. Continued following after pregnancy and have managed to keep the weight off

@Pip1402 if I recall from other things I have read about the glucose/fructose, all fructose is processed by the liver and stored as fat, whereas glucose is not. Therefore too much fructose is what causes fatty liver and other metabolic conditions. Fructose doesn't raise your blood glucose (because it's not glucose). If you eat fructose as whole fruit then the fibre slows the process down but if you eat fructose added in things (which it often is as it's cheap, it's super sweet and it's natural and can be marketed as fruit sugar 🙄) it goes straight to your liver and is stored as fat. If you see sugar as an ingredient (white table sugar) it is 50:50 fructose and glucose.

I once read that fructose's evolutionary purpose was to store fat, we eat it in the autumn in the form of ripe fruit and that its purpose is to lay down fat stores for the winter.

@thenewaveragebear1983 thanks for the fructose explanation. I understand that in the same way 😊

Pizza has caused a HUGE spike for me, and then low blood glucose. I've been good for a week and the spike of the pizza and drop after made me feel so rubbish! Good lesson learnt today. Before this i would have eaten more and then more when the low sugar reading symptoms came

Sounds very similar to low GI diet in all honesty.

@LadeedahYadaYada I agree but if I had eaten salad / vegetables first the pizza wouldn't have spiked so much. I'm not reducing my carbs, just trying to eat different food groups first.

This seems to be working well for me, no hunger pangs. Enjoying my food so much more.

How are you all getting on?

I've been eating my veg first and have been trying to avoid too much fructose and sweet stuff in general. Yesterday was a bit of a disaster with cakes at work, but I did go for a walk after my dinner. I don't know if it's working scales wise but I do feel like I'm a bit calmer around sugar/treats. I actually really craved something sweet tonight but only for about a minute or two and I am ok now.

If your feeling better then your winning. I feel better too, when I start with chocolate and cakes I don't know when to stop and feel rubbish!

I felt hungry tonight so had nuts and a cup of tea instead

The real test will be next week, I really struggle with carb cravings when my period is due.

I started this in September and haveost 4kg (was only slightly overweight so I guess it depends how much you have to lose). I still apply many of the rules and still have apple cider vinegar most days. This is the first time I have successfully maintained weight loss in my adult life

@Autther that's excellent. Its really nice to hear it is also working for you. I have struggled with calorie counting with minimal weight loss and this just works!

It is a learning curve though, but the weight is gradually reducing.

@thenewaveragebear1983 if you have one bad week in four, you'll still achieve in the long term

Morning,

So glad it seems to be working for you @Iwannabehealhty

I’d been doing quite well this week, yesterday was probably my best day. Went for a long walk in the morning, made really good food choices but then this morning I have woken up feeling ill (really intense sinus headache and body aches) and all I wanted for breakfast was coco pops!
We don’t even usually buy them but have one of those small boxes left over from a variety pack last time we went on holiday.

Feeling pleased that I have just had half a cheese omelette (shared with my 3 year old), some cucumber and about a third of a banana that I had pan fried with cinnamon - it’s my favourite sweet breakfast thing and I just couldn’t kick the craving for something sweet so figured this was the best way to manage it while still feeling like I was eating what I fancied.

Hope everyone else is having a good week.

@Iwannabehealhty sort of, except my weight loss is so painfully slow that I struggle to lose more in my 'good' weeks than I gain in my 'bad' weeks. As I'm getting older, I find I get a week of pmt like symptoms when I ovulate and again when I'm due on. I'm feeling really down about it today, weighed myself this morning and I've gained 2lbs FFS which is more than I've lost since starting on 6th January. So I am now heavier than when I started despite dieting for 6 weeks and exercising every day.