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Q. I often eat Subway sandwiches while dieting, but why am I not losing as much weight as I expected? Is it because of the calories in the bread?
A.
While Subway seems like a healthy option, refined flour bread spikes blood sugar, triggering insulin to store fat. In Traditional Korean Medicine, this creates 'Phlegm-fluid' (Damyum), a type of metabolic waste that makes the body heavy and sluggish. Your internal metabolic environment is more critical for weight loss than simple calorie counting.
📝 Detailed Answer
I once struggled with the same issue, eating sandwiches every day and wondering why I wasn't seeing results. While the bread is only about 200 calories, the body does not function like a simple calculator. From a Western medical perspective, the glycemic response is key; refined flour is absorbed so quickly that it causes an insulin surge, which actively promotes fat storage. In Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM), this process is linked to Spleen Deficiency (Biheo). When the Spleen’s digestive function is weak, it fails to transform food into vital energy, producing sticky metabolic waste called 'Phlegm-fluid' (Damyum) instead. This waste accumulates, obstructing circulation and causing bloating or edema. Over time, this stagnation can lead to 'Blood Stasis' (Eohyeol), further lowering your basal metabolic rate. Rather than just focusing on calories, it is essential to restore your body’s digestive and metabolic power so that food is processed into energy rather than stored as stagnant waste.
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