Does Insulin Really Increase Our Body Weight?

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We all are aware that insulin serves a very important function in our body. It helps us to remove sugar from our main bloodstream and store it in our cells for future use. However, if insulin offers these advantages, it has a set of disadvantages as well. For example insulin is said to be the hormone responsible for making people gain weight fast as well as frustrating their attempts at reducing body fat. In this article I will tell you how far insulin affects your body weight and what you can do in order to control it.

Here is how insulin works: when we eat food, the glucose present in the food breaks down and passes into our main bloodstream. This is when insulin, a hormone produced by our pancreas, comes to our rescue by removing glucose from our blood and transferring it to its rightful place - that is, inside our cells. Why does insulin store glucose in our cells? So that this glucose can be used in future for the purpose of producing energy. So, how does insulin increase your body weight?

Well, the fault actually lies with our body rather than insulin. Given a choice, our body will always prefer to burn glucose over fat. If it sees that there is ample storage of glucose in the cells, it will use those to produce energy instead of burning fat. And there is only one reason behind it: our body wants to reserve fat so that it can use it in future, should it face famine or hunger. For example, if in future, you fast, your body won't have any access to glucose, which is when it will use your body fat to produce energy.

However, if you are overweight, you need to burn fat instead of glucose. And here is how you can literally 'force' your body to burn your body fat.

If eat one large meal every day, break it up into three or four smaller meals. Eat each small meal every two or three hors. This way, your body won't have access to a large amount of glucose and at some point of time, it would be forced to burn your body fat for producing energy. Once your body begins burning fat, you will start losing weight.

So, to conclude, always eat less and in smaller portions. If you do so you should have no problems in losing weight quickly as well as efficiently.