Rick Mystrom - Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

Glucose Control Eating

Lose Weight Stay Slimmer
Live Healthier Live Longer

By Rick Mystrom

Acknowledged Diabetes and Weight-Loss Authority

PO Box 221974 Anchorage, Alaska 99522-1974

ISBN: 978-1-63747-063-3

eBook ISBN Number: 978-1-63747-064-0

Library of Congress Number: 2017945479

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2021924720

Copyright 2022 Rick Mystrom

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in any form, or by any mechanical or electronic means including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, in whole or in part in any form, and in any case not without the written permission of the author and publisher.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Other books by Rick Mystrom

My Wonderful Life with Diabetes

What Should I Eat? to Solve Diabetes,

Lose Weight, and Live Healthy

Your Type 2 Diabetes Lifeline.

About the Author

Rick Mystrom was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1964 while attending the University of Colorado at Boulder. Instead of denying the reality that was diabetes, he chose to shape that reality into living a healthy, bold, and active life with diabetes and added a promise to never complain about having diabetes.

In 1972 Rick and his young family moved to Alaska, where he started and operated two successful businesses. Nine years after moving to Alaska, he was named Alaskas Small Businessperson of the Year and one of Americas top three small businessmen.

He served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly and was elected to two terms as mayor of Anchorage. He was elected chairman of the Alaska Conference of Mayors and was twice selected as Alaskas Elected Official of the Year. He also served as chairman of Americas Olympic Bid Committee for the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games.

At 78 years of age, and having diabetes for 58 years, Rick Mystrom is a paragon of good health. His last stress test categorized him as equivalent to an active person 26 years younger than his actual age. He credits his good health to good eating habits, an active lifestyle, and an understanding of foods. For more than 40 years, he has tested his blood 5 to 10 times a day and has a unique understanding of which foods contribute to good health and which detract from good health.

For the past 10 years, Rick has meticulously measured, organized, and graphedin a way never before donethe impact of different foods and combinations of foods on blood glucose and weight gain or loss.

Mystrom has used this information as a core of his books on healthy eating for diabetics. While his readers gratefully share how they have lowered their blood glucose, rid themselves of the need for diabetes medications, and feel much better, they rave about how much weight they have lost by learning how to control their blood glucose.

In this latest book, Mystrom beautifully organizes and explains Glucose Control Eating, not as a diet, but as a lifetime eating style.

For American adults who are anywhere between slightly overweight and obese, this book is your answer to a longer, healthier, more enjoyable life.

Preface

Forty-two percent of Americans put on unwanted weight during the COVID shutdown. That, by itself, grabs attention. But more worrisome is that 48% of younger Americans, ages 25 to 40, put on weightwith a stunning average gain of 41 pounds.

The Week Magazine, April 23, 2021

Even before the COVID shutdown, more than one-third of Americans were classified as overweight and another third were classified by the CDC as obese. More and more medical professionals and researchers now use 70% as the total number of overweight and obese Americans.

Those startling numbers combined with the CDCs data showing that obesity is the second leading risk factor for death among those hospitalized with COVID, have quietly got the attention of millions of overweight Americans.

But for most folks who are overweight or obese, the real issue is quality of life. They would like to feel better, move better, and look betterwouldnt we all. Thats what this book is all about. Its not just about losing weight; its about living slimmer, living healthier, and living a long, good-quality life.

People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. Theyre ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. Theyre hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But theyll fail, mostly.

Just moving and increasing activity isnt going to cause much weight loss. People cannot outwork bad eating habits. For typical Americansnot competitive athleteswhat you put into your mouth is about 80% of weight gain or weight loss; how you burn it is the other 20%. Many doctors, medical professionals and their odd bedfellows, bodybuilders, generally concur with that statement. I explain in this book how Ive come to the same conclusion through testing.

Most people dont know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment.

Why have so many failed? Theyve tried cutting out sweets. That helps but its only part of the cause of their weight gain Theyve tried counting calories. Thats burdensome and again only part of the story. Theyve failed because no one has ever told them in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.

Most weight-loss books are written by smart, well-intentioned people who read a lot of other weight-loss books and write their own book based on their collected 2nd hand knowledge and their personal experience.

This is the very reason so many weight-loss books focus on counting calories. But counting calories hasnt worked for Americans. Although calories are now listed on almost all packaged foods. Its made no difference. Americas weight bulge continues and has even accelerated.

This book is different. Its based on more than 40 years of empirical testing and more than 85,000 tests on the impact of foods and drinks on weight.

How We Gain and Lose Weight

To understand how we gain and lose weight, we need to start with insulin. Medical researchers and internal medicine doctors almost universally agree that the amount of insulin a person produces is the determiner of weight gain and weight loss. Gary Taubes, a medical researcher and recipient of multiple awards from the National Association of Science Writers, refers to insulin as the stop-and-go light of weight gain and loss.

Produce more insulinyou will gain weight. Produce less insulinyou will lose weight.

Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, your thighs, your bellyand generally every place you dont want it to be.