Insulin stops weight loss
Insulin, a hormone released by the pancreas has an important job but the effects can be detrimental to weight. If we were, for example, to eat something sugary like a bag of sweets, high levels of sugar circulating around the blood stream are dangerous to the body.
The job of insulin is to take the sugar out of the blood and store it in the body, as energy to be used later but it mainly gets stored as fat. A terrible thing for those of us trying to lose weight. In addition, the higher the sugar levels in the blood, the more insulin is released.
Once this insulin is released it circulates and actually continues stop any fat being released from the fat stores for the following few hours. It essentially dumps energy as fat and keeps it there, turning the body into a ‘fat storer’.
Interesting reading, but bad news if you like sweet foods. The key is to choose slow releasing carbs, proteins and healthy fats which release much slower causing less insulin to be released.
Simon Lesser works as a full time Personal Trainer and Sports Therapist. He works with a range of clients from a private gym in Bournemouth, Dorset – for more information call 07748 914368 or visit simonlesser.co.uk