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The Mystery Of Why You Gain Weight When You Hardly Ever Eat

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Fast-forward 50,000 years or so, and look at how this affects you.

You’re late for work and the kids are late for school, so you don’t have time for breakfast. Work is really busy, so the only lunch you have time for is a bagel and a diet soft drink. Your body is in starvation mode, and your blood sugar is very low.

But when dinnertime comes, it’s a different story. Now you’re ready for a heaping helping of roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet corn, and bread rolls with butter, plus ice cream for dessert.

Your blood sugar soars, your insulin spikes, and here’s what your body is thinking:

“We’ve been starving all day, and finally we got a decent meal. But who knows when we’ll eat again??? The prudent thing to do would be to store all this food as fat. That way, we’ll have a source of energy if we go back to starving tomorrow.”

So the next morning, you step on the scales and you’ve gained weight! You say to yourself, “But how could that happen? I only ate one meal yesterday!”

How could it happen ? It’s your blood sugar, that’s how!

Are you starting to understand why balancing your blood sugar is so important?

“But wait a second,” you say. “I don’t have diabetes. I don’t need to watch my blood sugar.”

Well, I have two things to say to that.

First of all, don’t be 100% sure you don’t have diabetes.

Secondly, monitoring your blood sugar is not just for diabetics anymore.

In the book “THE SUGAR SOLUTION” (see link below). You’ll find several self-diagnostic tests to help determine your risk of type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. If it turns out your risk is high, see your doctor about getting a blood sugar test.

But meanwhile, there’s a lot more you can do to help protect yourself.

Because even if it turns out your blood test is perfectly normal – and you face no more risk of getting diabetes than the average person – there are still some powerful reasons to take control of your blood sugar.

Doctors are beginning to realise that keeping a close eye on your blood sugar isn’t just for diabetics anymore. It’s for everyone – man, woman, or child – who wants to be fit, healthy, and live to a ripe old age.