Big Belly and Complex Carbs Question…

Has anyone cut out the majority of complex carbs and changed to simple carbs and noticed a change in their “belly” i.e large stomach area? How about any other changes?

Thanks,
~Michelle:flowerforyou:

YES!!!

Carbohydrates are difficult for the human gut to digest and require ALOT of water to properly digest the carbohydrates. If you reduce/eliminate carbohydrates you'll notice a fast reduction in the size of your stomach/gut as the body expels all the water it required to properly digest those carbs!

Complex carbs are the good for you carbs.. raw fruits and veggies, brown rice, whole grains

Simple carbs is sugar, processed flour, white rice and bread, baked goods

If you cut simple carbs and stick with complex carbs you will see a huge difference. Also beer contributes to a large belly due to the bloating. Thus, called a beer belly.

You would be surprised, I think, on how fast your belly would flatten if you were to switch focus.

I like the info on this page: http://howtothinkthin.com/instincts2.htm

Maybe it will help.

Good luck on your journey!

Quotes from the page follow, below:

"The closer you get to nature, the closer you get to health."

"Simple carbohydrates, like sugar and corn syrup, are created in a factory – while complex carbohydrates in vegetables and whole grains are designed by nature, and help you maintain your health."

Also beer contributes to a large belly due to the bloating. Thus, called a beer belly.

The beer belly should be renamed the diabetic belly. Its do to the extreme amount of fluid and organ fat from decades of insulin abuse.

High Fiber is a must. The longer something takes to digest in your system, the better it's going to be for you. If you're body is busy digesting something you're going to feel full longer and you're burning a lot more calories trying to digest it than you realize. The key to loosing belly fat is sugar intake... Or rather the lack thereof. Sugars turn to lipids after digestion and those lipids are like walls the blood cells have a ridiculously tough time trying to break through to access fat cells...

The first 20 minutes of cardio exercise, you body accesses energy from your muscles because they store the most water. Your blood needs to get this water and move it rhoughout the body in order to cool your exterior temperature down. If you have some sort of weight training regimen that lasts a minimum of 30 minutes prior to your cardio, you can reduce that 20 minutes as low as 10 minutes depending on the intensity of your resistance training. After that 20 minutes, your body reverts to what it was programmed to do thousands of years ago, access fat stores for energy. Muscle stores more energy than fat, it's true, and a small percentage of weight loss through cardio exercise comes from muscular loss. However, muscles are harder to break down for energy than fats...

Although muscle is harder to break down than fat, a string of fat cells with a lipid wall is even tougher to break down than muscle. Your blood will continue to hack at the lipid wall for up to 2 hours post-workout, but you will burn more calories from muscle energy due to that lipid wall.

I have a family history of diabetes and low blood sugar levels, so it's tough for me to follow my own advice. One thing I've learned is that Sobe Lifewaters are excellent to replace diet drinks (with the most common 0 calorie artificial sweetener being aspartame, and aspartame being a leading cause of early onset of diabetes and alzheimers, I stay far FAR away from Diet drinks). Along with using Sobe lifewater to replace my regular soda intake, I've also taken to eating fruits when I'm feeling a little hypoglycemic to raise my blood sugar with NATURAL and SIMPLE sugars that don't digest into lipids...

So, remember these keys to grocery shopping, 1) the less ingredients used, the more natural the item, 2) the more complex the item is to digest (i.e. high fiber, complex fatty acids, mono-unsaturated fats, protein) the better it is for you 3) avoid as much sugar and artificial sweeteners as possible... like they're the plague...

EDIT: Also, beer and all alcohols are processed and digested as sugars in the bloodstream. That accounts for that much more lipids going to your fat cells...

I am sooooooooooo glad u asked this:)) I have REALLY been wondering. I always look pregnant no matter how small I am.....a protruding belly is what I have. My mom my grandmothers and aunts plus I have noticed my daughter at times does too. I have noticed my daughter and I have this more when we eat Complex Carbs....but I wasn't 100% sure:)) thx! Great topic!!

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As a nutritionist I can tell you that if you stick with around 30carbs you will lose weight 50carbs to maintain. What happens is when you eat bread,pastas, corn, cereal and so on your insulin goes up well then you need to bring down the insulin so then the pancrease helps in this process after the insulin and pancrease work together the rest is stored as body fat and that is around the waist., Any other questions let me know.