The Setpoint Diet helps you manage diabetes by addressing and resolving the underlying cause of diabetes. Once this is done, managing diabetes is easy. In fact, if you have type 2 diabetes, you may even reverse it by following the Setpoint Diet.

Causes of Diabetes and How the Setpoint Diet Can Help

There are two basic types of diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes: An autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the pancreatic cells. As a result, the pancreas produces little or no insulin, and a type 1 diabetic must take insulin. Though there is no cure for type 1 diabetes, it can be managed by dietary and lifestyle changes. Only about 5 percent of the population has type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes: A disease in which the cells become resistant to insulin. The pancreas usually produces enough insulin, especially in the early years of the disease, but the body cannot properly use it. Type 2 diabetes is generally managed by dietary and lifestyle changes, but if those aren’t effective, taking insulin is required.

As type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, it is the one discussed in this article.

Though a family history of diabetes increases your risk of this disease, diet and lifestyle habits are equally important.

According to the Mayo Clinic, some of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes include:

• Excess weight: Studies have shown that an increase in fatty tissue increases insulin resistance.
• Leading a sedentary lifestyle: The lack of physical activity can make your cells resistant to insulin, and it promotes weight gain.
• Family history: If a parent or sibling has type 2 diabetes, your risk for developing this disease increases significantly.
• Race: Certain races – such as African American, Hispanics, and American Indians are at greater risk of diabetes.
• Age: Your risk of diabetes increases with age.

Though you cannot do anything about some of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes, such as family history and age, you can make changes in your diet that will reduce your chances of type 2 diabetes, or help your manage this disease. The Setpoint Diet will help you do just that.

Using the Setpoint Diet to Manage Diabetes

Following the Setpoint Diet is a great way to correct your blood sugar control issues. The plan is easy to remember, and you can implement the principles a little bit at a time. With the Setpoint Diet, you’ll learn easy and tasty ways to manage diabetes.

And you can do it with five easy tips, all of which helps lower your setpoint weight.

Setpoint Weight and Diabetes

The five dietary principles below heal your hormones and lower your setpoint weight. This is important because approximately 85 percent of diabetics are also obese. And obesity is the biggest risk factor for type 2 diabetes. This is because they are both symptoms of the same metabolic disorder: the body’s inability to use insulin properly. Obesity and type 2 diabetes are interrelated, and they can both be treated and healed with diet.

Since being overweight or obese creates insulin resistance, you will never be able to manage your diabetes unless you manage your weight. You’ll also never be able to lose weight long-term unless you lower your setpoint weight.

The setpoint weight is that number on the bathroom scale your body tries to keep you at. It’s the level of fat your hormones tell your metabolism your body needs. If you have a weight problem, you likely have a hormonal clog preventing your hormones from sending correct messages to your metabolism. If you go on a crash diet, your body will fight every pound you try to lose because it thinks you’re starving. When you go off the diet, you’ll gain every pound back, plus an additional few pounds as added insurance against the next famine.

One of the biggest causes of a hormonal clog is making unhealthy dietary choices. Luckily, you can correct this with the Setpoint Diet. Here’s how to do it.

1. Eat Lots of Non-Starchy Veggies

On the Setpoint Diet, you’ll eat at least 10 servings of non-starchy vegetables a day. (Non-starchy vegetables are ones you could eat raw, if you wanted to. Think salad vegetables, such as spinach and onions.) Non-starchy vegetables are loaded with fiber, which bulks up in your stomach, filling you up fast. It also slows the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream, helping keep your blood sugar levels steady.Eat

2. Nutrient-Dense Protein

On the Setpoint Diet, you’ll enjoy 3-5 servings a day of mouth-watering seafood, lean meats, grass-fed beef, chicken and more. Research shows that protein consumption sends signals to the short- and long-term satiety hormones, meaning that protein fills you up fast and keeps you full longer. Plus, eating protein has no effect on your blood sugar, which really helps you manage your diabetes.

3.  Eat Whole-Food Fats

Contrary to popular belief, eating fat does not make you fat. You will enjoy 3-5 servings of whole-food fats on Setpoint Diet. Eating whole-food fats – such as avocado, almonds, and flax seeds — are satiating, which prevents you from overeating. Studies have shown that ingesting fats does not affect blood sugar levels.

4. Eat Low-Fructose Fruits

You are free to round out your meal with a serving of low-fructose fruits, such as acai berries, grapefruit, and blueberries. The Setpoint Diet recommends that you eat no more than 3 servings of low-fructose fruits per day. Eating low-fructose fruits instead of those higher in fructose, such as apples and bananas, will help keep blood sugar levels stable.

5. Avoid Added Sugar

Ingesting sugar has been shown, in many studies, to cause insulin resistance. It also increases blood glucose levels, which can make managing diabetes very difficult. The only way you can avoid added sugar is to avoid processed foods, and that includes sodas and other sweetened beverages. But going on the Setpoint Diet doesn’t mean your sweet tooth will never be satisfied again. There are many natural sweeteners, such as Stevia, that do not affect your setpoint weight or your blood sugar levels. You can substitute Stevia for sugar in any dessert, and it will be completely SANE!

Are You Eating Enough Protein To Lower Your Setpoint Weight?

I don’t know of a single person who hasn’t tried to lose weight, even if it’s just a few pounds. For most people, that’s easy to do. But easy goes out the window when your goal is to lose more than just a few. Why is losing the first few pounds easy? Why does your body reach a point where it seems impossible to lose any more weight?

Those are great questions and easy to answer. Especially when you pay attention to how much protein you are eating. First, when you begin giving attention to what you’re eating, it’s easy to decide if you should eat a salad or a piece of blueberry cheesecake, or protein. Obviously, you’re going to choose the salad, with chicken because you think it’s the better option.

But, after a while, the weight stops dropping, you’ve hit a plateau and you become frustrated. You’re still making, what you believe, are healthy choices when it comes to preparing meals. So, what happened?

Your Setpoint Weight Is Responsible For Your Inability to Lose Weight

Your current setpoint weight is the reason you hit that plateau. Basically, your body is telling you that it’s lost all the weight it’s comfortable dropping and is refusing to lose anymore. But you don’t need to give up, you haven’t lost the battle. Think of your plateau as a ‘diet time-out’, while you plan a different strategy.

It’s more than possible to lower your setpoint weight, but low calorie dieting isn’t the answer. Decreasing the number of calories you consume each day will only leave you feeling rundown, possibly harming your health, in the long run. Yoyo dieting isn’t the solution either, if anything, losing and gaining weight repeatedly only results in a higher setpoint weight.

So, what can you do to lower your setpoint weight? I suggest getting started on a protein-rich diet!

Why Protein Is Necessary To Lower Your Setpoint Weight

Everything you eat affects your body’s setpoint weight so you need to start eating smart. Adding more protein to your diet is one of the SANEst ways to begin. Protein benefits your body in a number of ways while keeping you feeling fuller longer. Simply put, when you feel full, you don’t eat because your body is satisfied.

A few SANE protein tips:

• Recommended amount of protein: 125 grams for small stature women and 200 grams for large stature men. This is daily, not per meal.
• High quality animal protein is extremely healthy, but vegetarian sources of protein are also beneficial for a SANE lifestyle.
• Organic foods are healthy but organic protein isn’t a ‘must have’. Clean Whey Protein or Clean Pea Protein are 2 great options.
• Foods containing more proteins than carbohydrates or fat, are best for a SANE lifestyle.
• A diet rich in protein helps to decrease your cravings for sweets.

Take That First Step Towards Lowering Your Setpoint Weight

Taking steps each day will bring you that much closer to your goal of lowering your setpoint weight. Consistency is necessary for achieving your goal of lowering your setpoint weight. For some people, support can be invaluable when it comes to staying on track. SANE helps with all of this, and more, by believing in you!

I know how hard it can be to take that first step towards lowering your setpoint weight, but we’ve made it easy for you to get started. Here’s a short questionnaire, Your Setpoint Risk Score, that will help us to help you get started…Click here if you want to take your first step.

The 4 steps I am about to give you are the fastest and easiest ways to lower your set point weight and experience more energy while you watch the weight steadily fall off. Pound after pound, week after week.

There is more wrong information out there when it comes to weight loss then we have time to cover but suffice to say it’s more than likely—and the the statistics back me up on this—that what you have tried in the past to lose weight has not worked for you. But today we are here to turn that around and it all has to do with the very important concept of creating a lower setpoint weight for you.

I will give you 4 steps to lower your setpoint weight and further resources if you would like to learn more. Plus, I will share the one real secret to lasting weight loss, stay tuned!

Also be sure to check out this more in-depth blog post that will give you even more information: “What is My Setpoint Weight”

Step 1: The Mental Game of Lowering Your Setpoint Weight

Trying to build a house without the right tools is never going to work and trying to lose weight is no different. There is no house to build but we do need to leave a few things behind. We need to leave behind anything that will weigh us down for our journey. Metaphorically, literally, and especially emotionally.

Forget about the shame and guilt and leave it in the past. Losing weight will continue to be a struggle, and it will always be a struggle, if you don’t let those type of emotions go. Work towards your goals every day with little consistent actions, these are the collective steps that will lead to lasting and permanent results in the long term. Bad Habits are easiest to let go when you have faith in your own ability to accomplish your goals.

Step 2: Lower Your Setpoint Weight With The Correct Information

When it comes to weight loss there are so many distractions and so much noise out there it can be so hard to figure out where to start. Then even when you know where to start it’s easy to follow the latest fad and then lose you way. The science is actually pretty simple when you go to the source and look for reputable and respected institutions such as Brigham Young Women’s Hospital and The UCLA Medical School.

It comes down to one simple principle that will end all the confusion. If you want to lower your set point weight then you really need to focus on eating large amounts of non-starchy vegetables with lean protein, and whole food fats. Want to learn more about how to eat the correct foods to lower your set point? Go here to learn more. Let’s cover step 3 now.

Step 3: 8 Words That Will Help To Lower Setpoint Weight For Everyone

Yup, 8 words are all you need to be slim and full of energy for the rest of your life. It will lower your setpoint weight, make shedding unwanted fat easier than ever before. You will feel like you are 20 years younger.

Why does this work so well? It’s simple really. Every decision you make in life will ultimately, lower or raise your setpoint weight. Nothing is neutral. And the crazy part is that many of the things that we THINK should help us to lose weight actually raise our set point.

Like what?

Stressing about your weight, over exercising at the gym, and probably the worst offender of them all, yo-yo dieting. This really is the hidden cage which is why it is so hard to lose weight.. If you don’t understand how your set point weight works it is so easy to get on the wrong track and put on weight even when it feels like you are doing all the right things.

Those 8 words that will change everything in life from what you eat to how you exercise is: “Will this raise or lower my setpoint weight?”

So simple and yet so very powerful. Life is merely a string of choices, one after another and what we decide at each of those choices determines our future. When you understand that each of those choices will ultimately have an effect it allows you to become more aware of those choices and begin to move in the directions of your goals. Most importantly once you realize this you are ready to begin the true process of massive transformation which we will cover in the next step.

Step 4: Transformation Is The Path To Lower Your Set Point And Become Naturally Thin

Would you agree that trying harder and harder to lose weight has not worked for you? Would you agree that gathering more information and reading another blog post has not helped you lower your setpoint weight up until this point?

In order to lower your set point weight you need to transform your relationship with food, and more than likely transform your relationship with yourself. Because if you love yourself and if you show yourself the compassion you deserve it becomes easier and easier to make the right choices that lead to a lower setpoint weight and permanent, long lasting weight loss.

If you are like most people out there who are trying to lose weight you are overwhelmed with information and diet myths. I call this N.I.O.S. Or… Nutrition Information Overload Syndrome. The only way to cure it is to stop digging deeper and deeper for more information, instead you need to begin looking for a transformation. That starts with a question:”What is Setpoint Weight?”

Just look around and you can see for yourself that the weight loss information that we have been using for the last 40 years is wrong. If it was correct we would all weight 120 pounds and look great in our high school jeans! But that’s not what we see at all. We see skyrocketing obesity and diabetes rates while fat shaming has become that last accepted form of bigotry in advanced nations. Its sad, and it has to stop. That is why the understanding what you setpoint weight is is so important.

It’s time to stop wondering, “why is losing weight so hard?”

The old paradigm of counting calories is 100% wrong. Instead we need to focus on the quality of calories. And more specifically those foods that lower your set point weight.

So What Is Setpoint Weight And How Is It Different?

Understanding what your setpoint weight is and how it works is really the hidden key to lasting, natural weight loss and fat-burning over the long-term.

Your setpoint weight is like riding a bicycle and you have to shift your balance left or right to stay upright. Well, your body works the same way by trying to balance your weight and making adjustments, up or down, if it feels it is getting to far away from “center” so to speak.

By making smarter (not HARDER!) eating and movement choices we can lower our setpoint weight and thereby enjoy effortless weight loss. And more importantly permanent weight loss. I know that is a big promise, but I have seen it happen with my own eyes.

That’s the thing about most diets and why they never seem to work out. We are here today to change that for you.

4 Quick Tips To Lower Your Setpoint Weight

So now that we have answered the question: “What is setpoint weight?”, let’s move on and answer the next question which I bet you have… “How do I lower my setpoint weight?” Great question. It’s actually pretty simple and that why it’s so important that you work to create breakthroughs and not small shifts in what you know.

Here are 4 tips you can use right now, in your life to begin lowering your setpoint and once you begin to see and feel the results you will want to incorporate this into every part of your life, not just what you eat.

[For more in-depth information and how to determine your Setpoint Score please visit this informative article: “How to lower your setpoint”]

1 – Eat the big 3: That means lean protein, whole food fats, and and be sure to fill up on non-starchy vegetables.

2 – Cut out sugar, wheat, starchy vegetables and artificial sweeteners. It’s not going to be as hard as you think. Trust me once you learn the simple secrets of cooking SANE it’s so much easier and delicious than you can even imagine.

3 – Don’t over exercise! Instead use short light sets of what are called eccentric movements for just a few minutes each week. That will be the best way to fire up your calorie hungry special type-2b muscle fibers to burn eve more calories.

4 – Age old advice that is still 100% true: you need 8 hours of sleep and enough water to ensure you never feel thirsty throughout your day.
That’s it! Those 4 easy as pie tips are truly enough to transform your body and more importantly your entire life. Don’t make this more complicated than it needs to be!