

Overlook social cues and scheduling to tell you when to eat. If you are hungry, then eat breakfast.Foods tend to be processed and the “Big Food” companies are marketing you to make you think you need to eat first thing. Studies show lunch and dinner sizes are constant whether you ate breakfast or not. There is a natural cortisol and adrenalin release which gives you glucose. You do not need it to give you energy for the day. Studies show you eat more calories when you snack, they tend to be high in processed sugars (though protein and fat snacks did not fare better in analysis), and they do not allow your insulin levels to go down between meals. This means you need to have time where you are not eating. Your body needs time of low insulin levels.

These are his opinions, and again well supported in his book.įor what and how you should eat, let’s start first with the how. Obesity and diabetes are rising- we need to change. As he comments, what we have been doing for decades is not working. Fung backs his arguments with lots of studies and a fair amount of common sense. It is a great book, and I am sure I am not doing it justice. This is part of my series on the Obesity Code.

Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones-in everyone-and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. Why your body’s own insulin is the key to controlling your weightĮverything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong.
