Part 2 of 2: A SANE Approach to Carbohydrates
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Warm-Up
It’s all good if you don’t know the answers. You will get another shot at this quiz later in the lesson.
Q1
Going SANE focuses on eliminating carbohydrates. It is a low-carb diet.
True
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False
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
Q2
90% of what you see in your grocery store is a carbohydrate.
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
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Q3
Carbohydrates are nonessential, so focus on carbs that carry along with them the most essential nutrients possible.
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
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inSANE
High-Carb vs. Low-Carb Confusion & Conflicting carbohydrate chaos
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Note 1
Some uninformed individuals might accuse you of being on a low-carbohydrate diet—as if there’s something wrong with being on a low-carb diet to begin with. There isn’t. And you aren’t.
Note 2
Low-carb dieters usually keep their carb count in the ballpark of 50 grams per day. A typical Western diet contains around 300 grams of carbohydrate per day. A typical SANE day contains between 70 and 125 grams of carbs.
Note 3
Much of this carbohydrate confusion comes from the fact that 90 percent of what we find in the grocery store is a carbohydrate.
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SANE
The High-Nutrition Low-Confusion Lifestyle & Focus on quality of carbs, not quantity
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Note 1
Forget about the high-carb, high-fat, and high-protein confusion and enjoy the foods that are delicious and give you the most of what you need and the least of what you don’t.
Note 2
Long-term fat loss and health are not about high-carb, high-fat, or high-protein diets. They’re about high-nutrition and low-confusion eating.
Note 3
Your goal is to eat the SANEst carbohydrates en masse just as you will eat the SANEst proteins and fats en masse. That doesn’t make you a low-carb dieter. That makes you healthy and slim.
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Quiz
Remember these? Give them one more try now that you’ve spent a few minutes going SANE.
Q1
Going SANE focuses on eliminating carbohydrates. It is a low-carb diet.
True
Try again.
False
Correct! A SANE lifestyle’s #1 priority is eating as much of SANE carbs as possible. How’s that a low-carb diet? Being too full for inSANE starches and sweets doesn’t make you a low-carb dieter. It means you easily avoid the extremely high-carb diet which causes obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Q2
90% of what you see in your grocery store is a carbohydrate.
True
Correct! . If a carb is a food that gets more calories from carbs than from protein or fat, than basically everything other than seafood, eggs, meats, tofu, oils, low-fat and low-sugar dairy, nuts, seeds, low-sugar protein powders, and full-fat dairy are carbs. This is why people may incorrectly think you are on a low-carb diet.
False
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Q3
Carbohydrates are nonessential, so focus on carbs that carry along with them the most essential nutrients possible.
True
Correct! This is from the starch-loving USDA: “The lower limit of dietary carbohydrate compatible with life apparently is zero, provided that adequate amounts of protein and fat are consumed.” There is no biological reason for a non-power athlete (football player, sprinter, etc.) to eat carbohydrate unless it helps us to consume required vitamins, minerals, fat, or protein. That’s why you focus on Non-Starchy Vegetables.
False
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Support
The number of people keeping you accountable is your #1 predictor of long-term success.
Sharing your SANEity enables you to enjoy instant accountability and support from your social networks. The science is 100% clear: The more you share your SANEity, the more success you will enjoy. To help you live what you learned today, please click on the photo to share it on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
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Celebrate
Nice job! Here’s some recommended eating and reading to help you celebrate.
Recommended Eating
Xylitol
Recommended Reading
How to Be Slimmer Without Willpower with Darya Rose…Transcript & Show
