You are doing your best — even going above and beyond the call of duty. So why are those pounds not leaving?\u00a0 We\u2019ve looked at a couple of reasons.\u00a0 Maybe you are underestimating your calories, or you need to step up your exercise plan.\u00a0 Possibly you aren\u2019t drinking enough water.<\/p>\n
Speaking of drinking — that\u2019s another possibility.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s what<\/em> you are drinking that is causing your weight loss to stall.\u00a0 You might have cut out the sweet foods in your diet, but sweet drinks can be just as destructive\u00a0 to your insulin balance – if not more so.\u00a0 Foods, even starches which are quickly digested, have to spend at least a short visit in your digestive tract before the sugar is dumped into your bloodstream.\u00a0 With drinks, it is almost instantaneous.\u00a0 If you drink a Coke, about 16 teaspoonfuls of sugar are dumped almost immediately into your system.\u00a0 Your autopilot which controls the hormones sends out an emergency message to the pancreas to pump out a big batch of insulin, and the insulin rushes through your system, telling your body to store up the fat.\u00a0 The hormone response of your body does far more damage than the 100 calories that you spent for the soft drink.<\/p>\n What about diet drinks?\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard for a long time that people who quit the diet pop habit lose about five to seven pounds almost immediately.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t lose that much, but I did see my weight loss begin to speed up. A study released last month confirmed that it\u2019s true.\u00a0 They did a study on hundreds of diet pop drinkers over ten years.\u00a0 They found that people who drank diet pop gained more weight.\u00a0 Not only that, but people who drank two or more diet sodas a day had increases in waist measurement 500 percent greater than those who didn\u2019t drink the stuff.<\/p>\n How can it do that when it doesn\u2019t have calories?\u00a0 One theory is that your autopilot can\u2019t tell the difference between real sugar and artificial. Perhaps it is the \u201csweet\u201d signal that causes the insulin-release message.\u00a0 You have the insulin response, even though you don\u2019t have the calories.The study was done on artificial sweeteners, so it is possible that a natural replacement, like stevia, might not have the same effect. If it is just the sweet taste causing the problem, though, even healthy sugars might slow down the weight loss.<\/p>\n What can you do?\u00a0 Try cutting out all sweet drinks for a while and see what happens.\u00a0 Drink water instead.\u00a0 It will be better for you anyway, and you may see this small change makes a big difference in your weight loss.<\/p>\n Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/em> You are doing your best — even going above and beyond the call of duty. So why are those pounds not leaving?\u00a0 We\u2019ve looked at a couple of reasons.\u00a0 Maybe you are underestimating your calories, or you need to step up your exercise plan.\u00a0 Possibly you aren\u2019t drinking enough water. Speaking of drinking — that\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70,71,69,72,73,15],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating-plan","tag-diet-dop","tag-diet-drinks","tag-diet-soda","tag-study","tag-waist-circumference","tag-weight-loss"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSusan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"