50 TOP TIPS FOR FAT LOSS – TIP 38

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Understand How Food Affects Your Blood Sugar Levels

If fat loss is your goal, then it makes perfect sense that you want to avoid at all costs the situation where the food you eat gets converted to fat and stored right?  I mean you’ve already got too much body fat and you’re trying to shed some, right?

So, if you want to avoid this situation you need to know what happens to your food when you eat it.  Here’s just a small snap shot of what goes on in your digestive system.

When you eat food (or drink sugary drinks), the digestive system breaks it down and any glucose, fructose and galactose located in the food enters the blood stream.  The rise in blood sugar levels causes your pancreas to release insulin to lower your blood sugar levels back to manageable levels again.

The problem is, when insulin is detected in the blood stream, the body stops using body fat as an energy source.  This makes perfect sense because with all that readily accessible energy floating freely in the blood stream, why would the body want to use body fat as energy.

So, how do you avoid insulin in the blood stream?  You can’t.  It’s going to happen as soon as you eat.  What you can do is minimise the spikes of insulin levels and the number of spikes you have in a day.




Reducing the size and quantity of insulin spikes has a huge number of proven medical benefits but from a purely selfish FAT LOSS issue, reducing both the number of spikes and the peaks of those spikes is a sure fire way of ensuring that body fat stores continue to remain on top of the preferred energy list.

Here are a few tips to keep insulin levels to the barest of minimum: 

1. Avoid sugary energy drinks at all costs.  They dramatically increase insulin levels because they immediately increase blood sugar levels.
2. Make sure you have protein with every single meal.  Protein does NOT impact on blood sugar levels, so the mixture of protein & carbohydrates will slow the release of the glucose being released from the carbohydrates thereby reducing the spike of insulin.
3.  Mix high GI foods with low GI foods to minimise impact on blood sugar levels.
4. Snack on foods that have little impact on blood sugar levels (nuts, seeds, protein sources) in between meals.

So, if fat loss is your goal, you want to keep your blood insulin levels to the barest if minimum and to do that you need to know what causes sharp and rapid spikes in insulin levels and what you can do to keep the size of the spike and the quantity down.