Five months into my sugar reset, I got an email from my doctor containing a lovely, lyrical phrase: “You are no longer prediabetic.”
By then I had lost more than 20 pounds, too, but resetting my simple carbohydrate base line had ripple effects throughout my life. The less sugar I ate, the easier it was to eat less of everything else. I was no longer strapped into what nutritionists call the glucose roller coaster, the cycle of sugar highs and deep lows that can lead to insulin resistance, wrecking the body’s ability to regulate hunger.
In the United States, and increasingly around the world, supermarkets and chain restaurants are packed with roller-coaster foods that promise ever-more intense flavors and pleasures, but only leave us wanting more.
“We’re supposed to feel satiated and full, and we don’t,” said Ashley Gearhardt, a psychologist at the University of Michigan who studies compulsive eating. “We’re being tricked.”
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