Why Cereal Might be a Bad Idea in the Mornings
I don't approve of the idea that we're supposed to blindly follow along with what someone says simply because they hold a PhD. Education is not a guarantee the holder of the degree isn't forgetting half of what they were tested on. It's not a guarantee that person is acquiring that degree with the same goals in mind as someone else. Maybe one guy is in it for the money. Maybe another's goal is to actually show some compassion. Everyone is different. As much as we'd like to believe any doctor or nutritionist is there to help us, there are other factors involved. There have always been other factors involved in education, business and politics. It is a mistake to look at anything these days without considering many other angles to the situation. Because there is always another angle to a situation.
Those of us who do dare to research and share the results of our findings tend to get targeted in a firing of defensive verbal attacks by those degree holders who feel they've been disrespected. While we don't mean any disrespect, I suppose going to school for that long a period of time and paying that much money in educational loans, going through the politics of landing your job and earning a reputation can feel like a kick in the ass. Especially coming from us folks who feel we're entitled to all the information we want at the touch of a mouse instead of earning that information through controlled resources and over so many years. I get it. Now let me share my belly fat information. Please remember while you're reading this, that I'm not a doctor. And for the sake of protecting myself from being sued, this information does not replace advice from your doctor or nutritionist. Thank you. Oh, by the way for anyone with a super stubborn attitude about those degrees- I do have a degree in Phlebotomy. That's where they teach you about how we're basically walking sacks of chemicals, and how anything and everything effects them. I have studied your blood, hormones, cells, chemical compounds and elements- and how we introduce good and bad things to that combination daily. Did you know it's almost possible to control someone's mood and behavior through diet alone? It most certainly is. But I digress..
There are two major players that have a tremendous effect on gaining weight. Those players are cortisol and insulin. Every morning, there is a 45 min. to one hour window when our bodies are naturally spiking in cortisol secretion. This is a normal diurnal rhythm. In people who work at night, this is usually reversed. It's meant to burn off extra stress energy.
In America, we've been taught to believe that breakfast food should consist of things like cereal, oats or other grains, muffins, toast- any sort of bread. These items are full of carbs. What do carbs do? They spike insulin levels. Now, an interesting correlation between cortisol and insulin- for every unit of free cortisol increase, our insulin increases by 9.7 m/UI. This, over time, prevents insulin from being absorbed and used properly. It starts to store in the abdominal area, and becomes what doctors term "insulin resistance", especially in people who are chronically stressed. It has been proven that a person under a lot of stress will store glucose for months at a time. This leads to a prediabetic state. Which of course, leads to obesity if not controlled. It becomes a situation where you have to work much, much harder to lose that belly fat.
So logically, what do we do to reverse this? We can try avoiding high carbs in the morning, like breakfast cereals and white potatoes and grains. There are carbs that don't spike insulin as much, and those are fine. But the idea here is to get away from believing we're supposed to be eating cereal or grains for breakfast. Also, exercising in the early mornings is optimal. Since our cortisol levels are higher, our bodies are better at burning fat during that time. This is also why many people say that if you want to eat a larger amount of food, you should eat it at breakfast time as opposed to dinner. Now that advice is somewhat tainted, as you want to make sure you eat the right kind of food and not really concentrate so much on the amount. Here are some ideas.. and I'll hit up the vegans first.
If you are vegan, you probably are well aware that your body makes proteins if you feed it the right plants. I'm not going to spend a lot of time educating on which plants come together to craft the perfect proteins for use in the body. You know what to do. Just don't serve it over rice or grains anymore.
For the omnivores, it's a better idea to skip the toast and grits and have your eggs with greens instead. Throw an avocado in there, and you've got some serious brain food to start up your day.
Using small weights during cardio is going to burn way more fat than exercising without resistance. You can still do your thing without weights. Doing something is better than doing nothing. But if you want to give that fat a kick in the pants a lot quicker, add some weights to your routine.
These things are just a couple of things to consider if you're still having a hard time keeping that weight off your middle. I'm not going to claim these are sure fire ways to get rid of abdominal fat, but I'd bet most of what I've got on it. I haven't had any trouble since I changed my diet. All we're doing with morning cereal is making it all a little more difficult on ourselves. Yes, I'm sure it's possible to eat Cheerios & muffins all morning and still lose weight, but I'll bet there's a lot more exercise- and some nutritional depletion for some- involved.
Those of us who do dare to research and share the results of our findings tend to get targeted in a firing of defensive verbal attacks by those degree holders who feel they've been disrespected. While we don't mean any disrespect, I suppose going to school for that long a period of time and paying that much money in educational loans, going through the politics of landing your job and earning a reputation can feel like a kick in the ass. Especially coming from us folks who feel we're entitled to all the information we want at the touch of a mouse instead of earning that information through controlled resources and over so many years. I get it. Now let me share my belly fat information. Please remember while you're reading this, that I'm not a doctor. And for the sake of protecting myself from being sued, this information does not replace advice from your doctor or nutritionist. Thank you. Oh, by the way for anyone with a super stubborn attitude about those degrees- I do have a degree in Phlebotomy. That's where they teach you about how we're basically walking sacks of chemicals, and how anything and everything effects them. I have studied your blood, hormones, cells, chemical compounds and elements- and how we introduce good and bad things to that combination daily. Did you know it's almost possible to control someone's mood and behavior through diet alone? It most certainly is. But I digress..
There are two major players that have a tremendous effect on gaining weight. Those players are cortisol and insulin. Every morning, there is a 45 min. to one hour window when our bodies are naturally spiking in cortisol secretion. This is a normal diurnal rhythm. In people who work at night, this is usually reversed. It's meant to burn off extra stress energy.
In America, we've been taught to believe that breakfast food should consist of things like cereal, oats or other grains, muffins, toast- any sort of bread. These items are full of carbs. What do carbs do? They spike insulin levels. Now, an interesting correlation between cortisol and insulin- for every unit of free cortisol increase, our insulin increases by 9.7 m/UI. This, over time, prevents insulin from being absorbed and used properly. It starts to store in the abdominal area, and becomes what doctors term "insulin resistance", especially in people who are chronically stressed. It has been proven that a person under a lot of stress will store glucose for months at a time. This leads to a prediabetic state. Which of course, leads to obesity if not controlled. It becomes a situation where you have to work much, much harder to lose that belly fat.
So logically, what do we do to reverse this? We can try avoiding high carbs in the morning, like breakfast cereals and white potatoes and grains. There are carbs that don't spike insulin as much, and those are fine. But the idea here is to get away from believing we're supposed to be eating cereal or grains for breakfast. Also, exercising in the early mornings is optimal. Since our cortisol levels are higher, our bodies are better at burning fat during that time. This is also why many people say that if you want to eat a larger amount of food, you should eat it at breakfast time as opposed to dinner. Now that advice is somewhat tainted, as you want to make sure you eat the right kind of food and not really concentrate so much on the amount. Here are some ideas.. and I'll hit up the vegans first.
If you are vegan, you probably are well aware that your body makes proteins if you feed it the right plants. I'm not going to spend a lot of time educating on which plants come together to craft the perfect proteins for use in the body. You know what to do. Just don't serve it over rice or grains anymore.
For the omnivores, it's a better idea to skip the toast and grits and have your eggs with greens instead. Throw an avocado in there, and you've got some serious brain food to start up your day.
Using small weights during cardio is going to burn way more fat than exercising without resistance. You can still do your thing without weights. Doing something is better than doing nothing. But if you want to give that fat a kick in the pants a lot quicker, add some weights to your routine.
These things are just a couple of things to consider if you're still having a hard time keeping that weight off your middle. I'm not going to claim these are sure fire ways to get rid of abdominal fat, but I'd bet most of what I've got on it. I haven't had any trouble since I changed my diet. All we're doing with morning cereal is making it all a little more difficult on ourselves. Yes, I'm sure it's possible to eat Cheerios & muffins all morning and still lose weight, but I'll bet there's a lot more exercise- and some nutritional depletion for some- involved.
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