When you eat sugar, your blood sugar rises. Your body then releases insulin to bring it back down.
This is a normal and healthy reaction.
But here’s the problem:
When insulin is high, it signals to your body to store fat. Your body can’t access fat cells and burn them for energy - no matter how hard you try.
So when you tried the diets, cut the calories and powered through workouts, that’s why the weight wasn’t shifting like it should.
It’s not your fault. You had the wrong information.
This is the mechanism behind every successful diet, whether they know it or not.
Keto, fasting and low carb diets all have one thing in common - lowering insulin.
Yes, a calorie deficit matters. But it won't work if insulin is locking your fat cells shut. You need both, the deficit AND low insulin.
Source: Insulin Inhibits Lipolysis in Adipocytes (PMID: 23858058)