12-03-2012, 13:47
Hi leeannel,
I don't use Fenugreek after carbs because it lowers blood sugar after a few hours. After eating sugar, you get a sugar rush for about fifteen minutes. The next two or three hours, you have low energy. I time fenugreek and carbs so as not to let the two dips in blood sugar coincide. I reported one occasion in my program thread when I saw black before my eyes.
The timing of fenugreek before the carbs can vary. If you eat fenugreek at least two hours after the last snack and at least twenty minutes before the next one, it gets through the digestive tract fast: in twenty minutes. Then it makes the pancreas shoot insulin into the blood stream, and that makes energy from blood sugar. So in that case, you just take the fenugreek, wait at least twenty minutes, and have your snack. If you take the fenugreek closer to a snack, it spends up to two hours in the intestine, so you have to wait longer before the next snack.
Over time, fenugreek improves insulin sensitivity, so the pancreas can afford to make less insulin for the same effect on blood sugar. So over time, insulin decreases, which contributes to waist slimming.
I don't know if a break helps. After my break in June, my waist slimmed faster for a month. But that was also the part of the school holidays the kids spend with my ex, so I didn't succumb to the worldly temptations of nice dinners and desserts.
Congratulations with the weight gain. If you snack on carbs, keeping it off your waist may be difficult though. The title question of your post is a bit complicated to answer:
"Isabelle, How Do You Use Fenugreek For Waist Slimming?"
A runaway waist size is a consequence of four factors:
1) A high carb diet
2) High insulin
3) High cortisol
4) Supplements or medication that ruin insulin sensitivity, for instance glucosamine.
Especially insulin and cortisol cand send each other spiralling upward. Eat low carb and time the fenugreek right to keep insulin low. Avoid stress and long, strenuous exercise to keep cortisol low.
Since the carbs increase insulin, low carb snacks help. I switched to eggs, cheese, boiled ham, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, Frankfurter sausages. I use half a loaf of dark brown bread with visible grains a week, less than 200 g of sweetened breakfast cereals a week, and no fruit.
I don't use Fenugreek after carbs because it lowers blood sugar after a few hours. After eating sugar, you get a sugar rush for about fifteen minutes. The next two or three hours, you have low energy. I time fenugreek and carbs so as not to let the two dips in blood sugar coincide. I reported one occasion in my program thread when I saw black before my eyes.
The timing of fenugreek before the carbs can vary. If you eat fenugreek at least two hours after the last snack and at least twenty minutes before the next one, it gets through the digestive tract fast: in twenty minutes. Then it makes the pancreas shoot insulin into the blood stream, and that makes energy from blood sugar. So in that case, you just take the fenugreek, wait at least twenty minutes, and have your snack. If you take the fenugreek closer to a snack, it spends up to two hours in the intestine, so you have to wait longer before the next snack.
Over time, fenugreek improves insulin sensitivity, so the pancreas can afford to make less insulin for the same effect on blood sugar. So over time, insulin decreases, which contributes to waist slimming.
I don't know if a break helps. After my break in June, my waist slimmed faster for a month. But that was also the part of the school holidays the kids spend with my ex, so I didn't succumb to the worldly temptations of nice dinners and desserts.
Congratulations with the weight gain. If you snack on carbs, keeping it off your waist may be difficult though. The title question of your post is a bit complicated to answer:
"Isabelle, How Do You Use Fenugreek For Waist Slimming?"
A runaway waist size is a consequence of four factors:
1) A high carb diet
2) High insulin
3) High cortisol
4) Supplements or medication that ruin insulin sensitivity, for instance glucosamine.
Especially insulin and cortisol cand send each other spiralling upward. Eat low carb and time the fenugreek right to keep insulin low. Avoid stress and long, strenuous exercise to keep cortisol low.
Since the carbs increase insulin, low carb snacks help. I switched to eggs, cheese, boiled ham, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, Frankfurter sausages. I use half a loaf of dark brown bread with visible grains a week, less than 200 g of sweetened breakfast cereals a week, and no fruit.