#4. Sugar, Bad for Weight Loss?

As we know, sugar is a simple carbohydrate. It is then broken down into glucose and then passed in the bloodstream, making our blood sugar levels high. To balance this out, insulin will be produced from the pancreas to shuttle the glucose out from the bloodstream and into the body cells.

Imagine a car, using up the gas to be able to drive itself. When our body needs a lot of energy to function according to our activity levels, the glucose gets translated into energy for the working cells in our body.

The problem happens when you are sending too much glucose from the sugar, to your bloodstream, when your body doesn’t need it. Your pancreas will go into overdrive, and produce too much insulin to overcompensate.

The excess glucose will then go to muscle, fat and liver cells and stored as an energy storage in the form on glycogen. Thing is, your cells have a limited space of storage for glycogen, so excess glycogen will be translated into fat as the final stage of energy storage.

But is sugar truly bad for you? Well this is the gist of it all-consuming too much sugar, fructose primarily, may cause a resistance to leptin. Leptin is a hormone that “tells your body when to stop eating”. Hence, consuming too much sugar might confuse your body into eating more; the worst in general, are sugar-high drinks and super starchy foods like desserts, your friend’s birthday cake. They will stimulate you to consume more of those, resulting in a definite surplus that is comprised of carbs, more than any other macro-nutrient.

Pair the theory above with how excess glucose from broken down sugar gets stored as fat, and you got yourself a golden ticket to Fat Country.