Confessions Of An Overeater

Today on the podcast - two new offerings from the frontier of personalized nutrition.  Will they prove to be helpful?  Will they represent money best spent elsewhere?  I am going to try them and report back.  Care to join?

Today's episode is my personal eating history told in light of what I learned about insulin resistance. Insulin resistance starts for many of us with an innocuous bad beginning, but over time can compromise our health through weight gain, fatigue, mental fog or a host of other metabolic conditions.

I’m not diabetic.  I’ve never paid much attention to my blood glucose levels or thought about insulin.  I was convinced by The Obesity Code that insulin resistance was the ultimate cause of my weight gain, and equally as important, was what prevented me from losing weight.  Not only was I convinced by reading the book, I set out to test it by wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).

In this episode, I explore the book that started my journey - The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung. Chapter One sets the stage to challenge the collective understanding of what causes weight gain, and if correct, is the reason why the conventional wisdom to lose weight - eat less, move more - fails so many of us.

Ever had a puzzle you couldn't solve? That was my story with overeating. Despite being highly educated, overeating seemed to be out of my control. Recently, a book, a podcast and a continuous glucose monitor challenged everything I thought I knew about dieting and weight loss. I learned that managing my insulin was a far more important metric than managing calories. Join for my story and a front seat to fascinating research and theories beyond the frustrating conventional wisdom of eat less, move more.