When something works, you have every right to keep doing it.
Stuffing carbs down your throat is NOT one of them! Especially when this is in excess, and when it comes to carbs, is it ever not in excess?
Here are body signs to look out for that carbs likely caused.
These are signs you’ll recognize about yourself or someone else you know.
1. Belly’s gonna get ya
I’m not talking about the belly you see in the video chasing a man down the street in Reebok’s “old school” advert.
No, I’m talking about your actual belly.
When you stuff too many carbs down your pipe, it’s only a matter of time before it shows up on your belly.
A hanging belly looking like it’s at the edge of a cliff is usually a good sign.
Even if you’re only in your 20s or 30s and you’ve got a bit of a belly, excess carbohydrates are likely the result because of all the excess FAT that is stored.
That’s what carbs trigger. They trigger your body to store fat, and that is what plays a role in either making you fat or if you’re a tall person, it goes to your belly instead.
2. Chinny chin chin
I can’t speak for animals like seals or whichever animal you consider to have “excess chin fat”, but when it comes to humans, carbohydrates are likely the culprit.
It doesn’t matter how you slice the cake, it’s STILL a cake. And speaking of cake, they’re carbs as well as high in sugar.
They’re also one of many foods in the carb family to fatten up that chin or at least, give you a cause for concern as you stare in the mirror like that guy from the movie “Scream” is standing behind you.
The majority of carbs we eat are refined carbohydrates, the sugars included, so this “body sign” shouldn’t even be too surprising when you think about it.
3. Fatty liver
This ties into the “belly’s gonna get ya” point I made at #1.
When a person has a set of inflated balloons for a belly, it also likely means you have a fatty liver. That’s a result of all that fat storage that’s been going on behind the scenes without you knowing.
As with any cupboard in the real world, if you stuff it with shit for too long, eventually it’ll start seeping out and may even push open the cupboard door, making it all fall out without restraint.
That’s kinda what happens with the fat storage which leads to fatty liver, and is then expressed as all the fat pointing outwards in your belly. As if it’s trying to find its way out of it.
The official term is Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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4. Kirby cheeks
If you have a face like Kirby or half a face like Kirby, then it’s time to reevaluate.
The same is true if you have cheeks like Kirby, the famous Nintendo character in case you’re unaware.
Puffy cheeks are a telltale sign of eating too much shit to begin with, be it white or brown sugar, sugary treats, or your usual pastry-loaded carbohydrates.
Or even your favourite meal at McDonald’s (you shouldn’t be eating there to be fair).
Those carbs add up, and unfortunately, all that exercise you do after or before eating shit doesn’t change the fact that the shit you eat can’t be countered by exercise.
That only works if you exercise INTENSELY and burn enough calories, etc, in comparison to the amount of calories you throw down your pipe like a garbage bin.
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5. Feeling tired after a meal
I used to eat:
- Rice.
- Pasta.
- Noodles.
- Spaghetti.
- Potatoes.
I’d eat them every day for years, especially rice and pasta, even though I did eat it with meats, fish, etc. The result was still the same.
Whenever I ate these foods, I wanted to sleep and sometimes I even took a nap during the day because “this is just the way it is”.
NO.
That’s abnormal. You shouldn’t feel like you wanna sleep just because you ate a meal, especially when that meal is relatively light and not in excess.
Yes, for a person like me, I have Gilbert Syndrome, Jaundice, etc, so I thought that was the main culprit at the time. But once I stopped eating rice or pasta (very high carbs) I no longer wanted to sleep after a meal.
That means a few things:
- My insulin was too high.
- The insulin spikes were TOO fast.
And that bullshit amount of fibre (around 5g) within those foods wasn’t enough to “buffer” the spike like so many health sites love to claim and shout about.
Assuming you’re healthy and don’t have anaemia, Gilbert Syndrome, or any other condition like Narcolepsy, then it’s absolutely not normal to feel tired after eating.
You’re doing something wrong and it’s time to change it.
You can start with those cookies, doughnuts, biscuits, or pancakes.
Throw them away.
6. Skin problems like acne, Hidradenitis, etc
I wish I had known about this a lot sooner. You don’t have skin problems by accident, and it isn’t because you’re “Unlucky” or because “that’s just how my body works”.
That’s a load of rubbish you need to stop believing.
Insulin spikes are behind every skin problem because the constant abuse of your insulin is what we’ll say, shoots your body into overdrive.
One of those side effects is skin issues and inflammation of course.
Acne, for example, one of the most common skin issues in the world, will start to retreat the moment you stop shoving carbs down your throat.
You’ll notice the changes the day after, and if not that day, the 2nd or 3rd day. It happens FAST once you do the right thing.
The same is true for Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Remove the culprit, and watch the magic.
- Eczema.
- Psoriasis.
- MS.
- Whiteheads.
- Bumps.
- Boils.
- Folliculitis.
And everything you can imagine is all a result of:
- Eating carbohydrates in excess.
- Downing too much sugar (drinks, food, teaspoons, etc).
And eating foods with hidden sugars, usually with cute names like “natural flavouring” and things of that nature.
Are there people who seemingly eat shit like cookies and have good skin? Maybe. But you need to know the full story.
It may be that a person exercises intensely which prevents the problem. Or as was the case with myself, it could be a matter of time as the problem may be forming from the inside.
You can’t out-compete a poor diet.
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7. Neck fat
And lastly, there is also NECK fat. I’m not talking about neck fat only from the front, but neck fat from the back of your head as well.
Like traffic lights, it goes both ways.
I personally noticed this one. All those:
- Carbohydrates.
- Potatoes (I ate 3-5 in a meal).
- Red velvet cookies.
- Cheesecakes of all flavours.
- Pasta, rice, noodles, and bread.
All of that shit added to the neck fat problem. Of course, it was a lot worse.
Carbs, especially the kinds of carbs people are so used to eating in Western countries or countries that have adopted that style of eating, trigger fat storage.
This is the main reason why excess carbs can be bad, it’s why you can develop extra fat on various parts of the body, and it’s why losing weight is an unnecessarily difficult task for someone who eats this way.
There is a reason why exercising day in, day out gives you no results, and why the weight scale seems like it’s frozen in time.
Fat storage needs to be reversed, or else you struggle for no good reason.
These are the body signs to look out for when eating carbs
Carbs aren’t evil by any means. But they are massively overhyped and exaggerated by health sites, mainstream media, big pharma, certain doctors, and those scam influencers on the internet.
Unless you plan on exercising intensely as a way of life, which most people don’t and never will, you have no business stuffing your face with carbs which only leads to the body signs mentioned in this post.