Part 4. Seven Steps Behind Weight Loss Program For Diabetes Reversal

by Konstantin Monastyrsky

The usual weight loss diets work like this: eat less, exercise more, and pray for the better. The diabetes-specific weight loss program works like this: A realistic weight loss plan comes first. Second, transition away from the diet that has caused your weight gain in the first place. Third, reduce hunger and appetite naturally. Fourth, eliminate sugar cravings. And, fifth — optimize energy and structural metabolism to enhance weight loss. When the first five steps are completed, eat less and exercise more in step number six until your weight becomes normal, and diabetes — over and forgotten. The final step, number seven, is reserved for making sure not to repeat the same stupid diet that had made you overweight and/or diabetic in the first place. Here are the details:

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Transcripts

Greetings,

In this presentation I will describe the steps involved in reversing type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes with an effective weight loss diet. These steps represent the essence of my diabetes reversal program and the foundation of “no fail” weight loss.

There are seven principal steps involved in my program. Here is, briefly, what each of them entails, and why:

Step #1. Developing Personalized Weight Loss Plan

Step number one is developing your personalized weight loss plan. You need this plan to avoid unrealistic expectations and prevent undesirable complications from interrupting your recovery. Commencing a diabetes reversal diet without such a plan is, essentially, a crapshoot.

Over the past 12 years, I have developed a proprietary algorithm to estimate with a high degree of certainty the amount of time it may take you to lose weight, normalize your blood sugar, and to anticipate and preempt most of the probable complications.

This algorithm is based on your age, gender, genetic predispositions, rate of energy metabolism, your current diet, body morphology, emotional attributes, climate, lifestyle, profession, the level of physical activity, your digestive health, and numerous other factors determined during our initial and extensive interview.

Most people terminate their weight loss programs way too soon simply because they don‘t know what to expect, or by when. Others succumb to diet-breaking complications. So having a realistic plan averts these undesirable outcomes, and is essential to reversing diabetes.

Author's commentary: The next three steps — transitional diet, hunger reduction, and eliminating sugar cravings — are concurrent and somewhat overlapping, but each one is important in its own right. They must precede weight reduction low-calorie diet that you will commence in step six, in order to enhance the rate of weight loss, prevent weight loss plateau, and avert complications.

These three steps have nothing in common with the so-called induction diets that rush you head on and completely unprepared into quickie weight loss only to end up in failure, or health damage, or greater weight gain shortly thereafter from the well-known “yo-yo” effect of crash dieting.  These “induction diets” are actually a long-standing scam. You can learn more about it here.

Step #2. Transitional Diet

Step number two is a transitional diet. You can‘t simply switch from regular food to a low calorie weight reduction diet overnight for the same reasons you cannot just walk out with your eyes wide open from complete darkness into daylight sun without experiencing sharp pain and temporary blindness.

It takes time, effort, and expertise to adapt your digestion and endocrine functions to a reduced amount of foods and calories, to the different composition of these foods, and to a different eating pattern. Otherwise you may experience severe digestion-related complications, such as dehydration, indigestion, heartburn, gastroenterocolitis, and constipation, or endocrine-related, such as hypoglycemia, fatigue, dizziness, depression, insomnia, and some others.

These complications tend to increase as you get older because aging diminishes your body‘s ability to quickly self-adapt to sudden dietary changes. That is why a meticulously planned and gradually implemented transitional diet must always precede the low-calorie weight reduction diet.

Interestingly, even during transitional diet you may start experiencing noticeable weight loss and decrease in waist size because of a general cutback of calories, reduction of foods, fluids, and stools transiting through the digestive system, decline of abdominal bloating, and decrease in water retention.

A transitional diet is also essential to accomplishing the next two important steps that address excessive hunger, insatiable appetite, and mind-bending sugar cravings.

Step #3. Reducing Hunger And Appetite

Reducing hunger and appetite is the goal of the third step. Most diets recommend suppressing hunger with the will. Well, actually it is the stomach and pancreas, not the lack of will that govern hunger, stimulate appetite, or result in overeating.

Hunger is a part involuntary reflex action, a part physical sensation that ranges from mild discomfort to downright pain in the stomach. Hunger stimulates appetite, diminishes satiety, and contributes to weight gain and, indirectly, to diabetes more than any other factor.

Fortunately, you can eliminate hunger pains and reduce innate hunger in an entirely natural way, and I will teach you how. This natural approach may take a bit longer than a radical and irreversible gastric bypass or LAP-BAND® surgery, but for people who are moderately overweight it works just as well, costs next to nothing, and is absolutely risk-free.

This step alone will have a profound effect on your overall health because it improves digestion, and eliminates common gastric disorders, such as indigestion, heartburn, hiatal hernia, delayed stomach emptying, gastritis, ulcer, and prevents stomach cancer.

Step #4. Eliminating Sugar Cravings

Eliminating sugar cravings is the goal of the fourth step. Since sugar cravings are just as potent diet breakers as hunger, your diet is not likely to last long enough while experiencing them most of the time. To assure smooth sailing, I will train you to avoid this unpleasant condition.

A sugar craving is different from hunger because it is driven by the interplay of low blood sugar and an elevated level of insulin secreted by the pancreas. Sugar cravings are also caused by diabetes-related medication, and are invariably made worse by restrictive, low-calorie diets.

Besides cravings, low blood sugar is a serious health menace on its own. It causes crushing fatigue, reduced eyesight, migraine headaches, uncontrollable irritability, memory problems, and inability to concentrate. These are all of the typical symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, two medical terms for, respectively, low blood sugar and elevated level of insulin.

Fortunately, with an adequate transitional period, a properly structured diet, a good deal of professional insight, and adherence to several important rules, you can reduce insulin secretion considerably, stabilize blood sugar, and eliminate sugar-lowering medications that contribute to hypoglycemia more than any other factor.

This step by itself encourages to the reversal of diabetes and efficient weight loss even before starting a low-calorie weight reduction diet.

Step #5. Optimizing Energy And Structural Metabolism

Step number five concentrates on optimizing energy and structural metabolism. Normal energy metabolism is critical for your health, a must for weight loss, and is essential for your ability to prevent weight gain after your diet is successfully completed.

A low rate of energy metabolism is recognized by some basic signs: low body temperature; chills even in a warm environment; frequent colds, chronic fatigue; depression; and weight loss plateau or even weight gain on a reduced calorie diet.

These conditions are mostly functional, and are related to an underactive thyroid gland that governs energy metabolism; or, chronic anemia that causes inadequate supply of oxygen for energy production; or, it may be circulatory problems that prevent efficient delivery of oxygen throughout the body; it may also be climatic factors that adapt your body to lower temperatures by stimulating the accumulation of body fat.

Author's commentary: It takes time to eliminate all of the above problems, and this process must continue throughout your weight loss program because all restrictive calorie diets are notorious for their undernutrition or even outright malnutrition effects. Resulting complications not only prevent weight loss and interrupt diets, but also exacerbate diabetes, contribute to heart disease, diminish immunity, cause depression, and impact the quality of life.

Structural metabolism is behind your body‘s renewal through round-the-clock cell division and biochemical reactions. It uses a profound amount of energy and raw resources, particularly body fat to run at full throttle.

Structural metabolism diminishes significantly when your diet lacks essential nutrients required for building up new cells and synthesizing substances such as hormones, enzymes, or neurotransmitters.

Unlike the so called “ketogenic” diets that rely on ketosis to burn body fat for energy, and are contraindicated for people with diabetes, my program relies on safe and efficient structural metabolism to accomplish the exact same goal, but without incurring any risks related to diabetic ketoacidosis.

Besides, well run structural metabolism prevents your skin from sagging while losing weight, and it makes you look young and stay healthy. It also protects you against the ravages of premature aging, such as infertility, non-genetic hair loss, periodontal disease and resulting tooth loss, osteoporosis, arthritis, dementia, heart disease, strokes, cancers, and other degenerative conditions.

Step #6. Low-Calorie Weight Reduction Diet

Step number six culminates all prior steps with a low-calorie weight reduction diet. The strategy in this step is a no brainer: consume less energy than your body requires for structural and energy metabolism, stay active to maintain a high rate of energy metabolism, stick to the rules learned in all prior steps, and keep losing weight.

Author's commentary: By the time you are ready to commence step #6, your blood sugar will already be normal or close to normal, and your doctor will gladly discontinue your sugar-lowering medications that stimulate hunger and sugar cravings, may cause weight gain, and, by themselves, are the largest impediment to your health, recovery, and normal weight.

The duration of this step isn‘t the function of the diet itself — you can reduce the amount of foods only so far before it becomes a torture — but the amount of weight that you have to lose and your rate of metabolism. Of course, you will know the approximate duration of this step in advance from your [weight loss] plan.

Contrary to what most people believe, your ability to lose weight does not diminish as you get closer to the last few pounds. It is actually quite steady all the way down to your desired weight, and only depends on your discipline and commitment. In fact, as many people keep losing weight, they become more active, less hungry, and even more motivated, and their rate of weight loss may actually increase.

The further down the weight scale you go, the easier it gets, but it does takes time, patience, and perseverance. I stand behind you throughout the process by offering essential mid-term corrections, helpful tips, and motivational support.  And this brings us to the final and most transformational step…

Step #7. Maintaining normal weight and stable blood sugar for life

Having a normal weight and remaining diabetes-free throughout your life isn‘t a function of a one-off diet, but a life-long lifestyle. In other words, it must become a habit, not a chore.

By the time you complete all of the previous steps, this habit will be well imprinted in your conscious and subconscious mind, and will, indeed, turn into a lifestyle of health and happiness.

In the next episode, entitled “How To Overcome a Weight Loss Plateau And Ensuing Diet Failure,” I will decipher for you one of the most baffling complications of practically all weight reduction diets — a stubborn weight loss plateau, or a seeming inability to lose weight after the initial precipitous weight loss, even though your calorie intake remains exactly the same. You‘ll be surprised to learn that a weight loss plateau isn‘t, actually, a real medical condition, but a well-practiced swindle. Please, watch it right now!

Thank you for your interest in my weight loss program, and I look forward to greeting you in the next episode!