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Weddingbee, I am on a new “restrictive eating” plan. Not a diet, but just changing what goes into my body and why. The other day I was reading something in Time magazine about the various diets and why some people fail. In the article called “A New Diet Equation“, it explains how where you gain weight determines what kind of diet you should be on.

For instance, I gain all weight in my middle, thus giving me an apple shape. This means that after eating, my body secretes a lot of insulin after eating a small bit of sugar. When our body breaks down what we eat into sugary energy-rich fuel, insulin causes the body to store the excess bits of sugar in our bloodstream into fat. This is due to the caveman days when we needed the energy for at least another day when we would find our next meal. Now that it’s a lot easier for us to access food, our body works overtime to process all the carbs and sugars we eat. With all the candy and sweets, our body can do such a good job of supplying insulin that it may spike the level of energy/sugars that we have, causing us to think we’re hungry again, resulting in overeating.

So, with my apple shape caused by an over secretion of insulin, and the pear-shape (weight gained in the hips) due to less excretion of insulin, this means we lose weight differently. As an example, if I restrict the simple carbs from sugary and starchy foods, I will lose weight easier than I would if I just went for restricting calories from fat. While this seems semi-complicated, this is a very interesting article, explaining why your body does what it does. So, I am cutting out the sugars and upping the exercise and hoping for some good results.

In the article,  Atkins is said to produce the greatest short-term weightloss, only because dieters tend to fall off the wagon quickly, with all the restrictions put upon them. BUT, if you want to lose weight for a wedding dress, Atkins will have the quickest response time. Just a little science lesson for you.