Your body tends to mirror image everything you do with it. When you take
shortcuts for its fitness, it takes shortcuts too. You wound up having short
term success but face imminent long term failure. When you find a shortcut to
lose weight – you lose the weight but slowly start putting it back on too. You think it because of you have lost your
way after gaining results. When you repeat same cycle – your weight loss takes
longer by putting up same effort. You feel the frustration; want some magic
pill to fix it. However, there is no magic pill out there till date.
If you consider liposuction as magic way – just meet up with people who
got their body operated and talk about their long term happiness. 90% of people
aren’t happy going that way. Those cheesy
infomercials who sell some green tea pills, sauna, morning walker etc. are part
of short term benefits which fails in long term. What do they do?
3 laws of body:
3 laws of body:
1.
Muscles burn fat.
2.
Your body is as active/ lazy as you are.
3.
Moderation is the key.
People who go for short term weight loss generally do it in 2 ways.
1.
They get extremely dehydrated (Google for
side-effects). This also includes hours of aerobic cardio. All those hours on
treadmills and spin cycles do just that. You sweat; you lose water from your
body. When you consume water back – you gain the weight back. Some people leave their body to dehydrate by
not consuming enough water. When body
gives signal that dehydration – most people don’t get it and assume it is
signal of hunger – hence load up on craving foods. When whole problem can be
solved by glass of alkaline water.
2.
They put body in starvation mode – where body loses
out key ingredients while trying to bank up on macro nutrients. Body starts
consuming fuel from muscles. Why shall body work hard when it is so tired and
trying to save energy. It won’t attack difficult store of energy (THE FAT). It
will attack easier source of energy – muscles and feed from it. This is the
reason people who get thin – still don’t like their body because they can feel
fat lumps around their body. They see their vitality dropping and look older
and sicker. They may act energetic,
however their body strength is really low.
Moderation is the key. What does that mean? Why am I getting fat? How do
I get that strength?
It is safe argument that you are emotionally attached to the food. Your
food has capacity to make you feel good/bad. Somebody told me and it made sense
(atleast to me) - body has its own mechanism to decide when to conserve fat and
when to let go. Like when you are gearing towards high endurance - your knee
takes pounding - body realizes - it’s due to excess baggage - so it disposes
it. When you do strength training - It moves fat tissue into muscles hence
maintaining some form. Instead of completely disposing whole tissue - body
finds it easier to utilize internal tissues and form muscles/fat from it. When
you give it lot of junk - it believes it will later get time to digest
difficult stuff, so it stuffs it aside and use main nutrients. When you keep
stuffing it with junk - it mechanism falters. Hence you get fat.
When you eat junk once in a while - nothing happens to you. Your body
just disposes it. In fact I take junk food once a week so that my body
mechanism doesn't falter. It knows what to take in and what to dispose
immediately. I have people who eat too clean find it difficult and become
emotionally vulnerable when junk enters their system because their body doesn't
know how to respond to it. They just feel ugly and sick. As every wise person
would tell you that you shouldn’t have strong reaction toward anything in life.
It is a key to inner peace.
Dieters make a key mistake by faltering the equilibrium. They either go
all in or kick out all the temptation until they lose all the weight. When they
reach their goal weight – they think journey is done and go back to old habits.
They suddenly start gaining weight. Circle of dieting.
You just can’t deprive yourself from food you love long term. You are
going to end up feeling extremely frustrated or getting completely side tracked.
One
thing that we often forget is the importance of moderation. Fill up on servings
of fruits and vegetables but allow yourself to enjoy the occasional indulgence
for the sake of sanity. If you never allow yourself to enjoy a taste of
chocolate, why on earth would you want to live forever? Seriously, do not
forget to enjoy food for the sake of dieting. There is nothing wrong or sinful
about enjoying food. Have a good relationship with food you intake (don’t
make it dysfunctional).
Disclaimer:
This post is meant for amateur performance athletes or people trying to lose weight or people who are gaining weight and they can’t figure out why they are gaining weight in spite of having same lifestyle through their life. I have tried my best to keep message in ENGLISH and not full of scientific jargon hence requirement to dumb down lot of facts for better understanding. I will write about metabolism some other time and how it affects your body.
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