WHY WE GET FAT
AND HOW WE GET UNFAT!
Let's get rid of the myths about weight and fat!
THE BOTTOM LINE
2 PARTS:
1. Never add fat in the first place (see main point in the article).
2. Burn off fat via the simple process.
RULES:
Let the body burn more fat to get energy. (Easily, no effort needed.)
Always eat enough to feel comfortable. (No need to starve or for low energy!)
GUARANTEE:
You will lose weight.
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It's not about sloth and weakness or poor character, but it is about strategy!
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Our "maker of fat" consists most strongly of insulin turning excess blood sugar into "storage" for later, in the form of fat. This process is all part of how we evolved, to store energy for times when we would not have a meal and/or for times of famine.
However, you might notice that we do not have famines any more in at least the Western countries and many others.
You have enought energy in your body to run 26 marathons, so it is not likely you'll run out soon.
IF IT'S NOT AVAILABLE, THEN...
By converting the excess blood sugar into fat, we make it unavailable for current use, so we will tend to (be instinctively driven to) eat more right now in order to make up for the shortage in energy to use right now. (Notice that an insulin spike will often cause low blood sugar later, at which time we will feel a craving for sugars and quick burning other carb sources! So an insuline spike has a double whammy: stores fat and causes more to be eaten in the short term.)
If I need 2,000 calories for today, then I will naturally continue eating until I get those calories and can use them.
If I store 500 calories due to excess insulin, then the 2000 calories I might usually eat is not all available, because I took away 500 calories from being available and only have 1500 left over and available. I will have to eat 500 more calories to get enough for the current day's use.
Therefore, I will keep on eating until I eat 2500 calories - so, for the day, I will have stored 500 calories in fat, and also used the other 2000 calories.
THE PRINCIPLE OF DISPLACEMENT!
If I need 2,000 calories a day and I produce 500 of those from burning fat, then I only need to eat another 1500 calories a day to have enough energy. Even though I have all the energy I need, I will still lose weight, since 500 calories from fat burning took the place of having to get 500 calories from food!
And my body will be happy with that. It only complains (sends uncomfortable signals) if it does not get enough calories and burnable fuel for the brain and body. It doesn't care where that comes from.
So, the only way to burn fat is to have a period where the body must use fat for energy.
It does so automatically when we are sleeping, with the most being burnt off whenever we stop eating 4-5 hours before bedtime. It also burns fat if you exercise and have not eaten - but eat right after exercise to assure adequate energy. Note that if we deprive ourselves of calories, the body will drive us toward using less energy even driving us into lethargy. Apparently, this is no problem during sleep nor during deliberate exercise.
UNNECESSARY BATTLES - AND OFTEN LOST!
It appears that one of the main reasons that we do not succeed in "getting unfat" is that we go against human nature and try to use our wilting willpower instead of just using a good strategy that aligns with nature. ("'Tis not good to try to battle human nature - as we seem to lose so often.")
So we need to do what we can to work with human nature and "what is so" about how our machines work.
So, we need to achieve a diet where one never feels hungry, but feels satisfied. If we go over, the excess gets stored where we don't want it and don't need the excess of.
The place where these two principles meet, with no proven ill effects, are at the Atkins diet, but basically also at the diet in the book The Grain Brain, by Perlmutter, MD.
Backing up the good effects (lowering blood pressure and improving health measures) is the YouTube Video, The Battle Of The Diets, presented by Dr. Christopher Gardner of the Stanford School Of Medicine. (He is a 25 year vegetarian.)
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YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS UNTIL YOU'VE TRIED IT
Most of us are so convinced that we need sugar and stimulants for energy that we don't think we can be happy without them and without the sweetness.
But we didn't evolve to crave sweetness, other than just enough for our bodies in Caveman days when we were often short of sources of sugar. We did not evolve for this world of excess sugar.
It turns out that we will get plenty of energy without lots of sugar, from other sources.
And, as we follow the right eating regimen, we will feel fully satisfied - and even better as our energy stabilizes and improves.
So, in case you haven't figured it out yet, you will now (and hopefully forever) stop eating sugar and quick conversion-to-sugar foods. That means you do not eat any refined foods.
And you'll feel fine, be slimmer, have more energy, and be more than satisfied.
Try it, and you'll believe it.
HERE'S HOW YOU STAY SATISFIED - EAT ALL YOU WANT...
You will eat foods that are long lasting in energy, with no spikes that will have you be hungry and no cycling up and down in blood sugar with all of its ill effects. Your body will tell you when you feel satisfied, as you will be able to eat until you no longer feel hungry.
No starving. No battles.
AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT...
You might as well, but phase it in if you must, follow the routine of successful people by following The Pre-Set, Super-Committed Schedule For The Day (or a design that uses the same concepts). Set in your schedule the "when" of eating and leave a "window" of at least 12 hours, so you are burning fat.
Your diet will be so easy and you'll have so much better energy within about a week that you'll be ready to do this schedule - as a great tool for life. Click the link to it and do it, right now! Even if you haven't yet implemented all of the diet, as it will give you more time to learn and implement the diet!!!!
MAKE IT EASY...
A full night's sleep will allow your hormones for satiety and hunger to behave properly, so you'll naturally eat less. (Whenever one is sleep deprived, one eats more.)
With the sleep and your lack of ups and downs in energy, you'll feel much better and things will be much easier. (You'll step off the merry-go-round of cycling down and having to get more immediate energy that causes you to cycle back downwards in about 20 minutes and on and on throughout the rest of the day.)
And exercise will make you feel better, but it won't if you don't do it! So, make it easy by not having to make a trip to the gym as in Making Exercise Easy. The feel good chemicals you will get from movement first thing in the morning will "make your day" - and you'll have more energy and a better mood for the day.
HOW TO MAKE IT HARDER
If you eat a special kind of sugar, you court sure weight gain and some problems with the liver. It seems that fructose goes to the liver, not insulin, to process it into energy - but it automatically in the chemical processes produces fatty cells in the liver, thus the term "fatty liver". Efficiency goes down and... and things start to fall apart. See High Fructose Corn Syrup ("HFCS") - A Toxic Killer.
If you want to not gain fat, never, even when not on a diet, eat over about 50-60 grams of carbohydrates, even of the high quality kind. Be absolutely clear about this!!!!
