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By Charlotte Werner, MS, RD, CDN
Fueling your body isn’t just about energy in the moment. It’s about stability throughout the entire day. When blood sugar constantly spikes and crashes, energy, performance, and appetite all suffer. The key to feeling strong in workouts, focused in daily life, and in control of hunger and cravings is steady, sustained fuel.
By prioritizing blood sugar stability, you can support consistent energy, more efficient fueling during exercise, and better long-term body composition outcomes without the highs, lows, or crashes that derail progress.
Daily Energy
When blood sugar spikes and falls consistently, you’re stuck on a roller coaster of energy, experiencing high highs followed by low lows. Stabilizing blood sugar is vital to overall health and helps ensure you feel your best not only during performance, but throughout the rest of your day as well. Consistent energy supports better focus, mood, and productivity, making blood sugar stability a foundational piece of daily fueling.
Workouts
During workouts, available glucose is needed in higher quantities to support performance. However, when energy spikes too high, it is often followed by a sharp decline. As a result, many athletes find themselves constantly chasing the low by fueling more frequently, sometimes every 15 to 20 minutes.
With UCAN, you don’t have to chase the low. Instead, you get a stabilized rise in energy followed by a more gradual, controlled fall. This allows you to fuel more efficiently during exercise without worrying about sudden crashes or the need to constantly top off your energy.
Body Composition: Managing Hunger and Cravings
Managing hunger cues and cravings is a key component of any body composition goal. When blood sugar is uncontrolled, these goals can become significantly more challenging, which is why stabilization is such an important area of focus.
Consistent energy from complex sources of carbohydrates, paired with protein and fat, helps you stay satisfied for longer periods of time. When blood sugar dips, whether due to long gaps between meals or meals that are too high in carbohydrates but lacking adequate protein, fat, and fiber, cravings often intensify. This can lead to reaching for more simple carbohydrates in an attempt to bring blood sugar back up, continuing the cycle.
UCAN Protein+ Energy is a powerful addition for managing cravings thanks to the LIVSTEADY™ carbohydrate, which helps stabilize blood sugar and, in turn, stabilize cravings. Combined with protein, it creates the perfect pairing to support both recovery and sustained energy.
