December 2, Monday, sunny, -8℃/-20℃

Friends who have just started the ketogenic diet sometimes have some misunderstandings, such as whether they know about cutting out sugar or not. I eat rice and noodles, but because of past weight loss habits, I am accustomed to whole wheat bread in the image of health and wellness. In fact, whole wheat bread has a high GI value, which can cause blood sugar to rise rapidly. In fact, most foods containing wheat are likely to cause blood sugar levels to rise, leading to excess insulin secretion and leading to fat accumulation.

In fact, fluffy bread is indeed delicious. Which fat person would not like fluffy and sweet bread, as well as those pastries sprinkled with meat floss and butter. The thought of the sweetness softly enters the lips and fills the mouth with the fragrance. , I feel very happy just thinking about it, right?

Do the spareribs taste good? When you get the craving for bread and pastries, go for the ribs. Hahaha, this is my advice on the ketogenic diet. If you feel hungry from time to time, you will definitely be prone to excessive carbon intake. Please believe me, you will not feel hungry if you maintain a good ketogenic state. If so, eat ribs or drink bulletproof coffee.

I took the leftovers from the roast duck and stewed duck I had at my mother’s house yesterday, and reheated them to eat in the morning. The roast duck is not as fragrant as the ribs, so I didn’t eat a few pieces in the morning.

I had a small bowl of pork stewed with sauerkraut in the canteen at noon. Today I found that the cold dishes in the canteen were filled with sugar, so I decided not to eat any more cold dishes.

In the past few days, diabetic friends have been asking me about the relationship between ketogenic diet and blood sugar reduction. We also chatted privately with many friends for a long time. There are now 100 million people with diabetes in China, and many people who have just discovered it are not willing to believe the fact that they are diabetic. In fact, including me, I was not willing to admit it at first. I am more accustomed to saying that my blood sugar is high. But in fact, if a person's fasting is greater than 7 for three consecutive days, or the glycation level is greater than 7, or the glucose tolerance test shows that the pancreatic islets are damaged, etc., these items can all be used to determine diabetes. When we say that a ketogenic diet can treat diabetes, we only mean a clinical numerical cure on clinical indicators, not a fundamental cure. Of course, a friend said that current gastric bypass surgery can achieve clinical cure for diabetes. I checked on Baidu and there was an introduction to this aspect, but because I live in a fifth-tier city and don’t know much about front-end surgery, I won’t discuss it for the time being.

Continue to talk about things I know:

A word often heard during the ketogenic diet is called "gluten". The soy sauce or keto snacks used in the ketogenic diet will be written "gluten-free".

Gluten is a group of proteins found in grains, especially wheat. Wheat is very similar to rye and barley. Therefore these grains also contain gluten. Gluten gives the dough a strong structure. During the proofing process of bread processing, the gluten protein forms a network structure. Without gluten, such a structure cannot be formed, and the bread cannot ferment.

Gluten is a sticky protein. After mixing flour and water and letting it sit for a period of time, a layer of sticky pigment-like sediment will appear underneath, which is gluten. Gluten is an essential ingredient for fermentation, and it is necessary to make fluffy bread, pizza, etc.

We divide flour into low-gluten, medium-gluten and high-gluten based on the gluten content. High-gluten flour has the highest gluten content, more than 11.5%. If you want to make bread and other products with a fluffy texture, When making food, be sure to use high-gluten flour with the highest gluten content.

According to foreign research, gluten is addictive. It is no exaggeration to say that wheat, like heroin and opium, can easily make people addicted after eating it. Continuously eating bread made of wheat is like taking drugs. After eating it, you still want to eat it, and if you don’t eat it, you will feel uncomfortable.

In fact, I had an early impression of being addicted to sugar and carbohydrates. Later, I learned that foreign research results indeed confirmed that addiction is not just our assumption, but a real thing.

According to Dr. William Davis, author of "The Complete Truth About Wheat," 30% of patients who were prohibited from eating wheat by their doctors experienced withdrawal symptoms. This is a shocking number. A few days to weeks after cutting out wheat, they felt extremely tired, unable to concentrate, irritable, and worried. However, as soon as they ate bagels, cakes and other wheat-made foods, these symptoms improved instantly, and marijuana patients The process of detoxing from drugs is exactly the same.

Since studies in the United States have found that wheat is the cause of many uncomfortable symptoms, patients have often been advised to live a gluten-free diet and not eat wheat at all in order to treat the disease.

In conclusion, you cannot eat gluten foods such as whole wheat bread on the ketogenic diet.