Wendie Trubow, MD explains why whole grains can stall weight loss for the metabolically unhealthy, which she says describes about 93% of Americans. She recommends cutting whole wheat bread, oatmeal, and oat milk while eating more protein and fat to shift your body toward burning fat instead of sugar.
Questions this video answers
93%
Chapters
A lot of people don't do well with grains, whether that's gluten or whether that's rice or oatmeal. Talk to me about how popular whole foods throw us off metabolically.
If you're part of that 93% of Americans that are metabolically unhealthy, whole grains right now, whole wheat bread, oatmeal, oat milk, that's not going to help you out here right now. That's something that you want to remove because there's going to be a blood sugar response from eating those foods and essentially an insulin response. And if you're metabolically unhealthy, that's something you want to get rid of. Right now, we want to eat more protein and fat. The things that you've been told not to eat. The saturated fat, the cholesterol, that's what you want to do. You want to teach your body to burn fat, not sugar. So you're not doing yourself any favorites. If you're overweight, metabolically unhealthy right now, and you're having a ton of whole grains, having a ton of oatmeal. Oatmeal. Eventually, yeah, you could bring some of that in. If it's organic and you tolerate it well, I could do it some from time to time. But you want to first work on your metabolism.
