You may have that typical lunch at work during a working lunch: sandwich, chips or potato salad, fruit, and a ‘wonderful’ dessert (see image). When I see that lunch in front of me, my mind goes to blood sugar handling issues with all of those carbs and hardly any fat. Gggggrrrr!

Imagine the numerous times you trigger your insulin in a day’s time:
Breakfast includes: granola, yogurt, fruit, and skim milk or orange juice
Lunch: Sandwich, chips or fries, diet soda, something sweet
Afternoon snack: candy bar or handful of nuts, another couple of fruits
Dinner: Pasta with spaghetti sauce with ground turkey, garlic bread with margarine, ice cream.

Remember, each day that you eat more than 100 grams of carbohydrates (not including vegetables), you have triggered your insulin, day after day after day….There is ricochet between the adrenals, liver and pancreas when the insulin is consistently triggered, which leads to blood sugar handing issues.

Lifestyle changes in summary:

• Reduce carbohydrates until sugar cravings and/or fatigue goes away: about 60-100 grams of carbs per day NOT including green vegetables
• Eat every 3 hours
• Increase protein and ESPECIALLY FAT intake
• Examples of snacks: nuts, boiled egg, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, sliced cucumbers, scrambled eggs with spinach and tomatoes, sliced avocados with hummus and vegetables, deviled eggs, full fat yogurt, full fat kefir
• Exercise doing what you love doing
• Never skip a meal
• Track your carbs, count only CARBS

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