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LUVED & UNLUVED CARBS
Did you know that every time you put food into your mouth your body responds with a hormonal response? The main hormone responsible for this is called insulin. Insulin has one goal, get rid of the sugar in your blood and store it as FAT.
Eating highly refined and refined carbs (think any kind of WHITE SUGAR/FLOUR anything super processed – If it’s WHITE, it ain’t RIGHT!) causes a MAJOR insulin response in your body compared to when you eat proteins and fats (which do not trigger an insulin response). This is why you need to be really aware and mindful of the AMOUNT and TYPE of carbohydrates that you are consuming!
When you eat these UNLUVED carbs (High Glycemic Index (GI)) along with fatty foods, its like throwing gas onto a fire – accelerating fat storage in your body. Really, let’s be honest, who wants that?
That’s why in bootcamp and with our personal training clients, we recommend that you CUT OUT these unluved carbs from your diet! You might LUV them, but they definitely don’t show your body any LUV – so why would you want to put them in there!?
Instead we should be eating limited amounts of lower GI/LUVED carbs including:
- Wild rice, Brown Basmati Rice, White Basmati Rice, Brown Rice
- Sweet Potatoes
- Whole Wheat Spaghetti, Sprouted Grain Spaghetti, Spelt, Quinoa, Capellini, Kamut
- Exekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Bread, Ezekiel 4:9 Raisin Cinnamon Bread, Stonemill Sprouted Grain Bread
- Steel Cut Oatmeal, Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Cerealss, Dorset Museli Cereals, Nature’s Path Smart Bran, Natures Path Granola/Flax (*note: not all Nature’s Path Cereals are low GI!)
- Stevia, Xylitol, Raw Honey, Sugar Cane Juice, Organic Sugar, Maple Syrup
This week let's try and cut out those UNLUVED carbs and show our bodies the LUV they deserve!!
PS. unfortunately, this isn't what we mean by loved/complex carbohydrates lol
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