Well, when it comes to the foods we eat.
Categorically blood sugar comes from the carbohydrate.
Once we eat any form of carbohydrate, it breaks down to glucose.
Whether it’s complex, whether it’s simple, whether it’s whole, whether it’s real, whether it’s moral, whether it’s blessed, whether it’s ancient, whether it’s a Prize-Winning Instagram post or magazine cover shot carb.
Vegetarians and Vegans struggle with this because they subscribe to a carbohydrate-lopsided diet.
Naturally, they’re going to have a good deal of blood sugar happening with a lot of insulin release and ……..
There’s the fat accumulation.
Why Vegetarians & Vegans Can Struggle With Weight Gain
Do you know any lovely vegetarians who are struggling? Those who, in their morality-directed eating actions, are unknowingly causing themselves great distress?
A very kind, diabetes and obesity-struggling woman once shared with me that she didn’t eat anything with eyes. I get it.
What she didn’t ‘get’ was that her exclusion of fat and protein-based foods had her over-consuming carbohydrate foods.
Blood sugar foods. Insulin-stimulating foods.
Cravings and weight gain were the outcome of her morality-based eating. Plant-based eating is carbohydrate-based eating.
Plants are very good. But carbohydrate-lopsidedness will lead us into metabolic consequences we may not have anticipated.
Carbohydrate Is Not The Only Food Category That Stimulates Insulin
And carbohydrate isn’t the only food category that stimulates insulin. Carbohydrate does. Protein can.
When we take in more protein than our body needs for repair and fortification at the time of eating, our body converts it to glucose.
So, protein can act like a carbohydrate.
Have You Ever Heard Someone Say That Protein Is A Conditional Carb?
That’s confusing, isn’t it?
What they’re saying is that protein can behave the same as a carbohydrate behaves in your body.
That’s because protein, through gluconeogenesis, will be converted to glucose.
Over-consuming protein, your body can’t store the excess for later so it converts it to fuel, glucose.
So, protein also becomes blood sugar. It may sound all a bit defeating but I assure you it’s not!
Your body can handle a lot. You just need to be smart about how much and with what you want to overwhelm it.
