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Fitness junkies can enjoy cookies guilt-free ‘if they eat them at a certain time’�
Giving up on your favorite foods is one of the biggest challenges to tackle with fitness goals. As opposed to the popular opinion, eating cookies and desserts isn’t so bad after all, as long as you keep in mind the advice of a glucose expert.
It is generally recommended to stay away from artificial sugar and processed foods to stay fit, and healthy as well as prevent early aging. However, when sugar cravings are extreme, stick to eating sweet treats at a specific time.
Best time to eat cookies while working out
Gymgoers and those who actively work out have a lot of do’s and don’ts to follow. Excluding processed foods from the diet is a general rule of thumb for fitness junkies.
But world-leading biochemist and the founder of the Glucose Goddess Movement, Jessie Inchausp�, says you can still enjoy a cookie or two occasionally given you eat it right before or after your workout.
“Because your muscles are really hungry for glucose all the time, and the bigger your muscles are, the more you use them, the more they are going to capture some of that glucose for energy,” she explains.
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People with higher muscle mass are better at eating sugary products as their muscles are better at “capturing the glucose” for energy, so they are likely to experience a small glucose spike.
More factors influence your body’s ability to use up or store glucose, including stress levels, sleep, gut microbiome, genetics, and time of the month if you’re a female.
Not all fruits are healthy
Some fruits including grapes are considered safe to consume because they are “natural” and have little impact on the blood glucose levels. But, Jessie dispels the common misconception while speaking to Steven Bartlette on The Diary Of A CEO podcast.
She says grapes aren’t a natural fruit as humans have created it by breeding different varieties over the years – without any seeds, it’s just a “big dose of sugar.”
While berries are much healthier, grapes or fruits high in sugar such as bananas and mangoes are relatively safer when eaten whole.
However, the biochemist advises against drinking juices derived from natural fruits as they are stripped of essential fibers, thus responsible for spiking the blood glucose.
