What is Ketosis in Medical Weight Loss?
What is Ketosis in Medical Weight Loss?
June 28, 2017 at 8:17 AM
How Obese Bodies Process Excess Sugar
Your body uses sugar and carbohydrates for energy. It gets both from the food you eat, and stores excess sugar as fat. In a properly functioning body, that fat can be burned as fuel. Over time, though, when you continue to eat excess sugar or carbohydrates, your body becomes very adept at burning sugar instead of fat. This is called insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes. You become a sugar burner instead of a fat burner. The fat cells keep increasing in size, and your body keeps giving you signals—called cravings—to eat more sugar and carbohydrates in order to get short term energy. It’s almost like your body has forgotten how to burn fat for energy.
What is Ketosis?
At Medical Weight Loss Solutions, our programs help your body transition to being a fat burner. This program leads to a condition called ketosis. Ketosis is a metabolic stage where your body uses fat for energy instead of sugar. Your body enters ketosis when you deprive it of sugar and carbohydrates. But the wonderful thing about ketosis is that you can get there without actually feeling deprived. After two or three days on a ketogenic diet, your cravings will subside. As a person suffering from obesity, it’s a wonderful thing to be able to lose weight without constantly feeling hungry.
On a very low calorie diet, or VLCD, the body doesn’t get the sugar it previously used to create energy. It’s forced to look to other ways to generate energy, and has no choice but to burn fat for fuel. When your body fat is burned, acetones are formed, called ketones. An abundance of ketone buildup is a marker that your body has entered the metabolic state of ketosis. The Medical Weight Loss Center in Connecticut has a regimented eating program that helps your body transition into this stage naturally, without unnecessarily enduring weeks or months of feeling starved.
Is Ketosis Safe?
Medical weight loss ketosis can be a very safe way to achieve quick weight loss. Since health is a priority, the quick weight loss clinics in CT provide an initial medical exam to ensure you’re healthy enough to progress on the ketosis program. For qualifying individuals, ketosis is one of the safest, most effective ways to lose weight. With a ketogenic diet, you’ll not only lose weight. You’ll also be able to keep weight off for the rest of your life, have reduced risk of heart problems and other diseases, reduce inflammation and enjoy a feeling of total health.
If you’re suffering from obesity, you know how hard it can be to lose weight. Obesity leads to other health problems like diabetes and high blood pressure. Why not get started today by contacting us for a free consultation? Your better health can begin today! Learn more about the benefits of a Ketogenic diet as well as Keto friendly foods.