My breakfast today: homemade pancakes with cottage cheese, fruit
The more refined a Carbohydrate is the quicker it will enter your blood stream as glucose, as a result your blood sugar levels will spike. To counteract this, your body will release an equally large spike of insulin in an effort to level out your blood sugar levels.
This Insulin spike will level out your blood sugar very rapidly, unfortunately due to the amount of insulin released and the speed that it lowers you blood sugar level, your body has no time to react and stop the insulin when your blood sugar level returns to normal
This causes your blood sugar to become low, when this happens you will begin to feel hungry again it is what is commonly referred to as a sugar crash, should you eat refined carbohydrates again the cycle will repeat itself.
How does this Affect Fat Loss?
If your Liver and Muscle energy stores are full your Adipose Tissue will store this glucose as Fat.
High Insulin levels will suppress the burning of Body Fat as Fuel
Refined Carbohydrates are very high in energy (kcal) content, if you get into the cycle of crashing and snacking, you will inadvertently consume many more calories in a day.
Examples of Refined Carbohydrates
- White Pasta’s
- Biscuits
- Cakes
- Pastries
- White Bread
- Processed Foods
- White Rice
This is something that is harmful, but sometimes you can :)
Cakes with condensed milk in chocolate
My favorite chocolates :)
Homemade pastry with apricot jam