What I have learned about carbs could help you too!!!

What are Carbs, How do our bodies use carbs and what happens when we eat too many carbs, and how do our bodies react to a lack of carbs….WOW, come on, I am a stylist what the heck is a carb. Do you know? well apparently it could have something to do with why I am fat, so sit back and take this in.
Serious questions about stuff most of us don’t understand and couldn’t possibly figure out on our own…
Too many carbs can lead to a variety of problems within our bodies, including, weight gain, Diabetes, and depending on our metabolism, fatty organs… So I feel it is important for us to figure out the answers to these questions once and for all, so that all of us can learn yet another way to make food work for us instead of the other way around….
It’s weird to me how some of the information we have known as “common sense” for years now, can go hand in hand with the information I have found from just doing a little research on the web. For instance; Carbohydrates are (simply put), biological compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that are an important source of energy for your body. Most of us already know that carbs turn into glucose (sugar). Too many carbs can raise blood glucose (sugar). If you are diabetic, the sugar that carbs produce can cause your blood sugar to rise dangerously. If you are diabetic, your insulin (a hormone created by your pancreas) production is impaired and insulin helps control the amount of glucose your body creates, naturally, therefore you should closely monitor your carbohydrate intake and stick to complex carbs like whole grains and brown rice, because it takes longer for those carbs to turn to glucose, and you can more efficiently work off those carbs before they raise your blood sugar…ok back to the definition, I seem to get off track lately.
Being made up of Carbon, which is the element that most everything on the earth is made of, and hydrogen and oxygen, which we need to live, it seems pretty obvious to me that we HAVE to have carbs to survive, Sorry Mr. Atkins. Now I don’t mean to say we should eat a lot of carbs, because if you go back to your life long knowledge of fat, you will remember that we are overweight largely because of the sugar we take in, there are other factors for some people, but if you are like me, yeah it’s sugar (I refer you to my affair with Little Debbie). Sugar is kind of like a carb turning into energy to be used later if it’s not used now. Does that make sense? Think about it, Eskimos need body fat to stay warm, and bears need to fatten up so they can hibernate, it’s when we eat to prepare for energy use later, and never use the energy that it turns to fat… the trick to carbs is staying within a healthy range of carbohydrate intake. If you are like me, tracking carbs will never happen, but the weight watchers points plus system keeps its eye on those carbs for you! IT’S AMAZING, and no I am not a paid actor, and this is not a commercial…Your doctor can best tell you how many carbs you should have per day, this program just works for me.
So did I cover everything…we are fat because we have stored energy from an excess of sugar/carbohydrate intake, and carbs are really really important to our survival, oh wait a minute I forgot something…………
STARVATION!
If you feel hungry, you’d better eat something, why? Well because when you feel hunger, it is your body’s way of saying, “hey Rob, keep it up and I am going to go into automatic fat storing mode and everything you eat will turn to fat”, I swear its true folks, part of the reason you plateau is because you are storing fat, it can happen to you even on the best weight management programs, but when you starve yourself your body starts to use your muscle as energy and when you finally do eat your body gets confused and stores the food as energy and that’s why you slow down your weight loss, if you starve yourself too long, well, you die…and that’s that…
I got most of the info here off my favorite website listed to the right; however I tried to make the info easier to understand. I did this research to help people, one in particular that I met today in my meeting and even if he never reads this, I hope he finds his own way to understand it. (Good luck Herbert). If my wording is wrong or misinformative, please contact me at robirob123@gmail.com and i will fix it.

Love to you all and keep up the hard work!!!!! ( and WOW, I should add the word carbs to my spell check, that just took forever to check)!!!