Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: belly fat and insulin resistance

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: belly fat and insulin resistance

I have to say, I've been reading all the high-fat posts for a while now, and I guess I feel like putting my two cents in being that it's the first snow here in Denver and I'm not feeling like getting out and about.

I posted my story earlier this year when I started F5, but as a re-hash: I am 42 and 6'4'. At my worst, back in 2001 or so, I weighed well over 400 pounds. I took the first hundred off with Atkins but yo-yo'd all the time. It wasn't until 2006 when I became a full-time single dad that I started looking at fat loss / body composition from a 'whole health' perspective.

I don't believe that for most people that hi fat and low/no carb is the best way to approach your body from a whole health perspective. Sure, you can make the case that 'different things work for different people,' but I think that nutritionally it's too easy to create a deficit in other critical areas if you shun carbs drastically. Switching to carbs that have a less dramatic effect on blood sugar helps me with this. Sweet potatoes, I'm convinced, are one of the greatest foods you can eat regularly.

Strength training builds muscle, and although the metabolic advantages are not as great as weightlifters would have you believe, the benefits are so much more than that. You're stronger and can do more. Your bones strengthen. You are more alert and in touch with your body, instead of viewing this whole thing as some sort of battle against your genetic history. I guess a lot of it has to do with how you view this whole thing. Are you just wanting to be slimmer, or are you looking to maximize your health?

From well over 400 pounds in 2001 (I'd guess 430) to about 320 in 2006, then down to 275 and back up to 320 in 2007, I had put on about 20 pounds of muscle and had trimmed down to about 235 when I started Fast 5 earlier this year. Today I am 210, have a chest and arms like I've never had before, but still plenty to lose around my middle. Most importantly my food intake is less of a constant source of thought and feels more natural, more organic, more 'correct.' I am not the same person I was, but closer to the person I always saw in my head. Does that make any sense?

Keep up the good work, team!

Phil

--- On Sat, 10/10/09, thentor <bherring@fast-5.com> wrote:

From: thentor <bherring@fast-5.com>
Subject: [fast5] Re: belly fat and insulin resistance
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 8:55 AM

Low carb high fat is the only diet for IR? If the IR is secondary to overweight, then anything that is effective in getting rid of the overweight condition would be also get rid of the IR by treating the cause rather than the condition.

Bert

Bert Herring
Fast-5 Corporation

--- In fast5@yahoogroups. com, "helena_hastingspre ss" <hastings.press@ ...> wrote:
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> When you say diet, I take it you realise that a low carb high fat diet is the ONLY diet for your condition, don't you? If you follow that, you don't need to buy any supplements, pills, potions, powders or anything else. There isn't a scrap of scientific or clinical evidence that taking anything like that will help with I.R.
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> Helena
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups. com, Cassie Luu <cdluu@> wrote:
> i also want to know if (besides diet and exercise) there are any little, simple changes that i could make that would make a huge impact? for example, heather is always mentioning that she takes konjac powder.
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