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My name is Gina and I would like to welcome you to my blog!

On this blog, I not only share the dietary and lifestyle approach which reversed my metabolic disease and achieved my weight loss, but I also debunk many misconceptions surrounding obesity and its treatment.

I am 5'5" and was weighing 300 lbs., at my heaviest. I lost a total of 180 lbs. I went through several phases of low carbohydrate dieting, until I found what worked best and that is what I share on this blog. Once on a carbohydrate restricted diet, along with intermittent fasting, I dropped all of the weight in a little over two years time.

My weight loss was achieved without any kind of surgery, bariatric or cosmetic. I also did not take any weight loss medications or supplements. I did not use any weight loss program. This weight loss was solely the result of a very low carbohydrate, whole foods based diet, along with daily intermittent fasting and exercise.

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Mar 16, 2017

A Bread By Any Other Name

1. Can the ingredients in bread make it healthier?

I get more questions about bread than any other food. Crazy to think this as I run a low carbohydrate blog and group. Bread is not an option on low carb if your goal is to improve your metabolism. It doesn't matter who tried to gas light you into thinking it is. 

There are a lot of breads out there, many of which are quite expensive. Save yourself the trouble. You can trade your artisan bread for Wonder Bread and it would make 0 difference for your health but you might see a difference in your wallet.

The problem with bread is the bread, not its ingredients. Regardless of what's in the bread, it will still cause blood glucose dysregulation which is what damages metabolism and drives the pathologies that come with it. You will never be able to obtain and maintain proper blood glucose regulation while eating bread. You would only be able to mitigate this blood glucose abnormality through starvation (a little bit of bread), which only reinforces your problem.

Stay away from bread and if you cannot, then don't bother following low carb. Find another protocol.

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