Your Gut and Blood Sugar Are the Same Conversation

Gut issues are frustrating. I’ve been there. I’ve experienced the bloating and discomfort that shows up after dinner, or lunch, or snacks, or any meal really. Chronic constipation that constantly needs some type of supplemental help— sometimes you have a random movement and other times you feel it and it just doesn’t come. There’s the daily acid reflux. Or maybe a SIBO diagnosis you got two years ago and have been quietly managing since.

You probably don’t connect them to blood sugar though. At least most women don’t. A gastroenterologist will talk about your gut. Your primary will talk about your numbers. And you’re left pieces it all together. Happens all the time.

In twelve years of working with women on this specific issue, I almost never see one without the other now (especially with our food systems shifting so drastically the past decade). I see so many combinations: borderline A1C and bloating. Insulin resistance and IBS. A “less bloated middle” sitting at the top of someone’s goal list right next to “reverse pre-diabetes and stay in the 5.4 to 5.5 range.”

Here’s the loop. When your gut is inflamed, your cells actually stop hearing insulin clearly, so your pancreas pushes out more to compensate. Your A1C goes up, and you’ll know if this is true if you crash 30 to 60 minutes after eating. Your middle gets puffier. And when your insulin is high, the bacteria in your gut shift, your stomach acid weakens, things slow down — the reflux starts, the bloating intensifies, the “I ate something I shouldn’t have and now I’ll feel and see the impact for two days” pattern starts.

As long as you’re treating one end of that loop, the other end keeps undoing your work.

What I teach inside Living Low GI is built for this loop. Not gut work OR blood sugar work. Both at once. I provide what you need to support this:

• Cooked vegetables instead of raw, because raw kale and raw onions and big chopped salads are wrecking a gut that’s already inflamed.

• Protein at every meal in amounts your digestion can actually handle (not the firehose).

• Carbs eaten at the time of day your body processes them best — not zero carbs, please, no more zero carbs, your gut and your hormones need them. I know it’s scary but you can start with some low glycemic ones.

• A 12-hour pause overnight so your gut can finish its work while you sleep.

• A short walk after meals that lowers your post-meal glucose and gets your digestion moving in the same ten minutes.

There is support to address four roots — gut, blood sugar, cortisol, hormones — moving in the right direction from the same set of habits. Not a separate plan for each one. That’s why this works for the woman who is already tired of plans.

Maybe you’re thinking:

I’m so bored with my meals already.

I hate meal planning.

I can’t eat onions, garlic, leeks, raw vegetables, red meat, gluten, dairy, eggs, or whatever else I already can’t eat. The last thing I need is a longer list of “can’t.”

Restriction on top of restriction is not the answer — and it’s the trap most plans walk women into.

Inside Living Low GI, your custom plan is built around what you actually eat and what you actually can’t. Allergies, dislikes, time, the 10pm dinner because you teach evening classes, the “I forget to eat” days, the days you’re cooking for a family. Real life. Real substitutions. Real recipes in 15 to 30 minutes. The work doesn’t fall on you to figure out what to eat — it falls on the plan to fit your body and your week.

This all helps you do so much less mental gymnastics (which, by the way, increases stress, impacting blood sugar, gut health, and inflammation.) It’s all connected, and I want to give you a more peaceful way.

If any of this is hitting close to home, here are two ways to start.

Option 1: Start a free trial — for the woman who wants to see what’s right for her, specifically.

When you start a free trial of Living Low GI, the first thing you’ll do is fill out your Blood Sugar & Weight Report. It’s a personalized intake — your numbers, your symptoms, your sleep, your stress, your digestion, the foods that don’t sit well with you, all of it. Based on what you share (and please be as detailed as possible), you get a custom plan with specific recommendations across food, lifestyle, supplementation, and daily habits.

→ Get your custom plan and start your 24-hours free trial

Your free trial gives you all access to Low GI Living to browse and decide if you want to stick around.

Option 2: Become a member at $11.95/month — for the woman who already knows the gut + blood sugar overlap is exactly her situation.

Members get all access and new releases each week. And when you join today, you also get immediate access to five brand new bonus plans built specifically for what this article is about:

1. Low GI GERD 7-Day Plan — 14 easy recipes

2. Plant-Based Low GI GERD 7-Day Plan — 15 easy recipes

3. Low GI Low FODMAP 7-Day Plan — 17 easy recipes

4. Plant-Based Low FODMAP 7-Day Plan — 15 easy recipes

5. Low GI Gut Healing 6-Day Plan — 15 easy recipes

All five are yours. You can pick the one that fits your situation best and follow it for a week. Or you can just pull recipes out of any of them and use them as standalone meals. Even if you never follow a single plan day-by-day, you walk away with 75 gut-friendly, blood-sugar-friendly recipes to add to your rotation.

→ Become a member at $11.95/month

*You’ll find the Low GI Living Gut Health bundle under ‘Bonuses’ on your dashboard.

As always, please keep your doctor in the loop. This works alongside their care, not instead of it.

You have options. You have a path. Rooting for you.

Kindly,

Jen