My hairdresser, Leah, is thin and always has been.  I found out why today and it kind of blew me away.

Her father taught her since she was young that you have to limit bread, wheat products, as empty carbs (cereal and bread).

She knows how to make cauliflower mashed potato-type food and she knows how to order food.  She said she went to Vegas with some friends and while everyone had the adult portion of french toast (which involves about 6 slices of bread at probably about 90 g of carbs–with regular syrup, making it like 150 g of carbs, she ate the kid’s portion of two slices, with limited syrup and wound up leaving two bites over because she is used to eating smaller portions.  She said that her friends were making fun of her (sabotage), but this is why Leah is thin and she is extremely healthy and looks great for her age.

It took me until my forties to learn this way of eating and it should be the way everyone does it.  It is ridiculous that we think we should have wheat products with every meal.  Cereal and pop tarts (loaded with empty carbs and sugar) for breakfast, sandwiches, burger buns for lunch and pizza, pasta or dinner rolls for dinner.  No wonder why America is so fat, anxious and attention-deficited.

I found an article that explains why we gain weight from eating too much wheat.  I really suggest you read my nuts and bolts of it.

Explanation of why your belly is bulging:

“Conventional healthy eating wisdom tells us that toasting a slice of whole wheat toast is a healthier choice than grabbing a Snickers bar or gulping down a sugar-laden soft drink. However, when eaten by itself, bread spikes blood sugar more than candy bars and soda. It has a higher glycemic index (GI)—the extent to which a particular food increases blood sugar relative to straight-up sugar, or glucose—of 72, while a Snickers bar has a GI of 41 and sucrose a GI of 59.

One explanation for the differences in GI can be explained by the fact that combining a high-GI food, like whole wheat bread, with low-GI proteins and fats, like slices of ham and cheese, lessens the food’s effect on blood sugar. Still, better is not necessarily good, argues Davis. “Sure, blood sugar is better, but it’s still high enough to provoke the entire constellation of undesirable phenomena associated with high blood sugar, including growth of visceral fat,” he says.

Why belly bulge? Because where there’s glucose, there’s always insulin, the hormone that allows entry of glucose into the cells of the body, where it’s converted to fat. It works like this: When you eat wheat, your body gets a huge helping of a blood sugar-spiking carbohydrate called amylopectin-A. To move the sugars from the wheat into your cells where they can be used for energy—or stored as fat, the pancreas responds by releasing insulin. The higher your blood sugar is after eating, the more insulin that is released—and the more fat that is deposited in the abdominal area. When belly fat builds up, it floods the body with inflammatory signals that cause energy-requiring tissues, like muscle, to stop responding to a proportional amount of insulin. As a result, your pancreas churns out more and more insulin to help metabolize the carbohydrates you eat. Years of running your body through this high-blood sugar, high-insulin cycle result in the growth of visceral fat, or what Davis has deemed a wheat belly.”

http://fitbie.msn.com/eat-right/tips/8-reasons-wheat-making-you-gain/tip/2

The carbs create cravings that lead to a vicious cycle and you are now a Carb Addict!

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