Grapefruit with Each Meal and Drop Pounds?

I read something very interesting the other day. It was about a study that showed that people who ate a half of a grapefruit with every meal lost about 3.5 pounds in three months that were trying to lose weight. Now granted, the piece I read actually didn’t give specifics, like if these people were eating light all the way around, but I assume they were. I also made the assumption that the grapefruit sort of helped to satiate these people when eaten with every meal.

A sort of “built in dessert”, if you will, that helped them feel like they had all their essential fat, salt and sweets all in one meal, and therefore made them not crave any of the three major flavors after they were done. Grapefruit has almost always been considered a “diet fruit”.  It has long been speculated that grapefruits possess unique properties that help us to burn fat more readily and may also stabilize our blood sugar, which helps us to not eat as much food.

It helps us not eat as much food, or even crave it throughout the day because instead of eating more to stabilize our blood sugar, we can just have stable blood sugar by eating grapefruit with our meals.

Grapefruits apparently help you to burn fat and stabilize insulin levels because they lower your insulin levels after you consume a meal. Insulin spikes are known for causing cravings and increases in appetite, and are a major reason that people tend to over eat. That and a pesky little hormone called ghrelin, whose properties are just now being studied and better understood, are the major factors behind bingeing, over eating, and craving the worst kinds of food for weight management.

In other words, if someone could find the magic potion to kick ghrelin out of the picture, and minimize it’s effect on our bodies, would become instantly wealthy.  Who knows, maybe one of those new prescription weightloss meds that are going through the FDA in the next year or two for approval will fit that bill!