Transitioning From Sugar and Carbs – Not just A Weight Loss Issue!
It is a fairly regular occurrence in our practice and coaching that someone will ask for help with reducing their carb intake.
Generally (but not always) it’s as they wish to lose weight.
If the average person talks about carbs of this feeling, they’re not talking about the useful carbs (fresh fiber) found in veggies which are fresh, for instance. They are typically talking about those troublesome “starchy carbs”.
Really, it’s not so much they need help with decreasing the consumption of theirs, since that could simply be a situation of keeping your mouth closed and not consuming it! What they really want is help with decreasing their intake and not feeling rotten or deprived in the process.
While there are many directions we could take with this little carb reducing journey, these’re 4 of the main points I usually make with patients from the beginning.
1) It is essential to find out what you are dealing with.
Many people continue to think I am discussing including a “spoonful” of sugar to the coffee of theirs when I ask about their sugar consumption, as well as they think about what this is related to the “carb” problem of theirs. I’ve had huge consultations wherein somebody tells me they do not make use of sugar, or maybe they do not add sugar to the food items, or maybe they do not even have sugar in the house… only to listen to them teach me five minutes later that they begin their morning with a bowl of cereal, or perhaps a bagel, or a portion of toast, or perhaps a flavored coffee on the method to the office.
Next, it’s their sub or sandwich at lunchtime, and the pasta or pizza for dinner, the energy drinks and pop, the snack foods, exipure dangers – advice here, and on as well as on.
It is not simply the Mary Poppins spoonful of sugar.
It’s every one of the food items, beverages, and various components which transform fast (and in excess) to sugar. That’s one of the biggest issues with “carbs”.