Why the Blood-sugar diet is amazing

When it comes to the weight loss game, don’t you feel as though it takes a whole lot of motivation to get that goal, and when you’re only two or three days in, you eventually give up as a result of not seeing a change? If yes, then clearly you should try the blood sugar diet.

I used the word ‘game’ because that is exactly what weight loss is, an entire game. You sign up for that gym membership, you buy the insanity workout videos and you choose to only treat yourself to one takeaway a week to improve your health, but of course, your body chooses to play these games on you and do its own thing.

You don’t necessarily have to be overweight to take care of your body, these small but very significant changes can make a whole lot of difference to your life, and may just add another five to ten years to it. If you’re in your early twenties like me, you’re not really thinking about the next thirty or forty years, but surely nobody wants to hit the golden years and then realise it’s a little too late to make any meaningful change.

This is why I would suggest to anybody who wants to lose weight, fast and effectively to wholly invest themselves into the blood-sugar diet. A friend recommended ‘The 8-week blood sugar diet’ by Dr Michael Mosley to me a while ago. I do listen to people around me for the most part, especially if it’s to do with weight loss. I’ve tried everything and I mean everything but to no avail, so I was obviously very cynical about it, but after reading the book, and applying what I was reading to my everyday life, it somehow worked out for me.

Now let’s cut to the chase. I thought the advice in the book would only apply to people that have already found out that they have Type 2 diabetes, and just want to reverse the effects, which this book helps them to do.

However, if you’re like me and have the JustEat app on your phone, as an excuse for when you just can’t be bothered to be healthy for most days of the week, then you might just be in for a rude awakening. These pizzas and cheeseburgers that most of us would wholeheartedly take over cauliflower and cabbage do eventually lead to type-2, which could eventually lead to having body parts amputated, and that’s not too pretty.

What I love most about this blood-sugar diet is the fact that it’s not something that you have to stick to for the rest of your life, (this is great for those of us with commitment issues) surely no one wants to go without some fried chicken for a whole year. This is only a two-month program, which delivers results in that short space of time, and your body maintains the new weight that you have, due to your liver having all of the visceral fat flushed out of it, because of your new diet.

In the book, one of the things that make this diet practical is that Dr Mosley advises us to take up a Mediterranean diet. Sounds fancy, but of course not too fun. ‘It’s a diet that emphasises the importance of eating fruit, vegetables, oily fish, nuts and olive oil’. (p. 95) however, with a bit of practice and preparation, it’s not as hard as it looks. I thought it would be tough, but it’s really not that bad, especially with the help of blood-sugar diet recipes plastered all over the internet, as well as in the book too.

As someone who hates the gym with a passion, the blood sugar diet is just the crème-de-la-crème of all weight-loss programmes, and I feel so inspired by it, and angry at the same time that I hadn’t discovered it way before my graduation pictures were taken. So now skinny Tracey has to stare at fat Tracey hanging up on her mother’s living room wall. Nonetheless, I would recommend it to anybody a thousand times over if they want to take control of their life.

References

 Mosley, M. (2015). 8-week blood sugar diet. 1st ed. London: Short Books.