I have been trying to work out how obesity happens.
No one wakes up one morning and thinks I know I will stuff myself with food until I can eat no more, then fall asleep till the next day when it happens all again.
So knowing what I know now about myself and about my eating what went wrong and how did it stay so wrong for so long?
Looking back at my early childhood I was what is known as a sturdy child. Even then I was wider than my peers but not any taller.
At the start of puberty I just started getting bigger around the middle. My diet then was a normal 1950's 3 meals a day, quite high in carbs, we had carbs with each meal but only fruit for snacks.
It would be toast and eggs with breakfast and then school dinners with meat potatoes vegetables ( very well boiled cabbage) followed by a sweet pudding. In the evening a high tea type meal with more bread. I had sugar in my tea ( everyone did) and coffee when I had it. Also fizzy drinks lucozade which I would buy with my pocket money.
I am guessing gms of carbs about 250 per day? We did not consume a lot of fats. Maybe chips once a week? Meat would be in pies etc to make it go further in the family.
I know now that this was just far too many carbs for me. I was hungry most afternoons and evenings and if food was available I would eat more. The only times I felt full was on a Sunday dinner at lunch with roasts and pudding and after Christmas dinner when we had lots of sweet nutty dried fruit treats all day.
At about 12 my parents tried to cut back on my food to get me back to a normal size, same as my sisters. I was cycling 6 miles round trip to school weekdays but my weight continued to climb and I became a secret eater. Spending my pocket money on chocolates and sweets on the way back from school.
At 15 yrs old now a size 18 or 20 I went to the Dr for help. I said I had a gland problem!! I now know I was right it was my pancreas gland that was the problem!!
He sent me off to weight watchers who had a group in the town. 5pm, after starving all day and not drinking water, I would go for a weigh in. All my food had to be measured in a dinky little scale and the weight started dropping. Between feb and Nov I lost 14kg and reached my goal weight. It had been a struggle every single day to consume such small portions and feel hunger all the time but I achieved my goal.
Within a couple of weeks the eating plan went out the window and the weight started to return and I ended up weighing more than when I started.
Over the next 50 yrs this process was repeated time and time again.
I know now I have an insulin problem. My insulin response to carbohydrates is more dramatic than in slim people.
I believe it is caused by a lack of Vitamin K2 which moderates the insulin response. Vitamin K2 is found in meat and fat from grass fed animals, egg yolks from free range chickens.
Note this a different Vitamin to K1 which is needed for blood clotting. Vitamin K2 has very different effects in the body.
Insulin sensitivity for diabetics and the obese, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, calcium deposits in arteries ( moves calcium into bones) healthy teeth, rheumatoid arthritis.
Modern diet where the animals are fed on grains, are very low in Vitamin K2. The pancreas has the 2nd largest need for K2 and it also is needed for bones which we now know influence the reaction of the glucose/insulin reactions.
When you are put on a low fat diet the Vitamin K2 is even more reduced, increasing the insulin response to the low calorie high carb foods.
This leads to a low blood glucose, high insulin situation where the body cannot get at the fat stores ( due to the insulin locking the fat cells) and there is a chain reaction leading to binging. Hyperinsulemia in the afternoon or evenings.
So what I am doing now is taking a 200mcg Vitmain K2 MK7 in the morning. Followed by another one at lunch time 200mcg MK7 plus 1000mcg MK4. The MK4 has a very short half life a few hours, but the MK7 will last over 24 hrs.
This holds my blood glucose steady and reduces the insulin needed.
I fast in the morning, coffee and cream only, have brunch around 11.30 and follow with dinner in the evening. My carbs are now about 15 to 20mgs from vegetables only.
70% of my calories come from fats. The cream, the butter I cook my eggs in for lunch and the olive oil I use for my dinner.
I am no longer hungry in the afternoons. I can now stick to the eating plan, enjoy my meals and feel satisfied with what I have on my plate.
I will soon have lost 25kg and plan to lose another 10kg over the next 6mths or so.
I will finally look like a normal person, but I know my metabolism will never be normal if I return to my addiction to carbohydrates.
For advice contact www.realmealrevolution.com
See www.nutrition-network.org
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Ref: Vitamin K2 and the calcium paradox.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
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