If you cheat, cheat for less than 60 minutes

Gwenski · February 2012

Just something I read last night (wow, appropriately timed!) from the findings of Richard and Raechel Heller, retired PhDs from Mount Sinai School of Medicine who say that their years of research brought them to this conclusion '

''If you're going to cheat, do it within a one hour time frame"

They say "when the body has been deprived of insulin-releasing foods high in carbohydrates for two consecutive meals, the body starts making adjustments: it releases less insulin because it's expecting the next meal to be heavy in carbohydrates. When that happens less insulin is released, less fat is stored, and more fat is used up. The lower level of insulin allows seratonin to act as it should - as an appetite regulator. You will probably eat less than you would if you had been eating three consecutive carbohydrate-rich meals. If, however, you cheat, then the body responds by releasing a second phase of insulin, which produces more fat cells. This second insulin phase usually kicks in between seventy-five and ninety minutes after you begin eating. If you stop cheating before sixty minutes are up, the second phase of insulin release manages to stay low.. so.. if you are hanging out at a Super Bowl party or a lazy Sunday-afternoon church barbecue the last thing you want to be doing is grazing all afternoon and into the evening. Continuous eating for five hours can send your insulin reading shooting to the moon. So, the next time you're cheating, check your watch. By limiting the 'damage to one hour, you limit the overproduction of insulin, which ulimately leads to weight gain"
from: The Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness.