I have been following this thread and your comments. Whatever you do, its going to be your decision. A couple things. You didn’t put it on in a day, and you won’t rake it off in a day. You won’t win if you don’t eat. Starving yourself is not an option. You have to make choices that you can live with, and get you closer to the goal line. If you are just ‘dieting’, as soon as you stop dieting you’ll start putting it back on. It going to be a lifestyle change, it has to be a permanent course correction.
Like I said I helped a girl loose over 100 pounds. The hypnosis seminar will help you change your food thought process. Cutting out the big sugars in foods and drink is something I had to do 30 years ago as a diabetic. But just cutting out candy, soda, and deserts is like sprinkling sprinkling nutritional plant compounds on your ice cream. The big ticket item that you really need to address is carbs.
As a diabetic, one of the things I found was that simple carbs like bread or pasta, is the gift that keeps on giving. Eat a big bowl of spaghetti and the digestion process will turn all those carbs into sugars over 4-5 hours. All those extra sugars get stored away for future use. (fat)
When the body uses glucose (sugar) to power a muscle, it needs insulin as the key to unlock the door to let the glucose into the cell to provide the energy. In the absence of insulin, the body has defensive mechanisms to keep you alive. The brain and the heart do not require insulin and use blood sugar without insulin to keep you alive. Everything else requires insulin. In the event of low insulin, the body will use a substance called glycogen to power the muscle which does not require insulin. The body gets this glycogen from fat. Thats why the body fights so hard to protect this fat. It is constantly making sure you have the reserves to power your body.
What is carb cycling? It is a practice of avoiding all carbs for 3 or 4 days, and then having a carb day. Why? You are denying your body the excess sugars to store away as fat. The carb day lets your body know that all is well and keeps the storage process active. If you go 100% keto, at some point the body figures out that there ain’t more coming and it fights to protect its stores of energy (fat). The body will actually use up muscle to protect its fat stores. Thats why a carb day after 3-4 no carb days.
Exercise is great. I’m sure many have written hundreds of books on the subject. I will point out one scientific fact. When you raise your heart rate up above 70% of your maximum heart rate for 20 minutes. It flips a switch and changes the way your body deals with food, and fat storage.
My advice if you are going to go the exercise route is to set up a schedule and verify that you keep your heart rate constantly up for that 20 minutes
