Termyn8or
Posts: 18681
Joined: 11/12/2005
Status: offline
|
A three day fast. I mean one, I'm not saying do it all the time. After a fast, you learn to be satisfied with less food.
Most humans' appetites fail to follow their development, that is if you eat like a growing child after you're full grown you get fat, unless you have one hell of a physical job, like construction or something.
Settling into a sedentary lifestyle, you would be surprised to find out just how little food is required to keep the body working, the trick is to make it the right food. Quality not quantity. Forget the food pyramid unless you want to look like the food pyramid. It s absurd for them to put out guidelines like that, because one size does not fit all. They would have you believe that an accountant and a bricklayer have the same dietary requirements, poppycock.
When I fast I drink water, coffee and beer, and sometimes milk. The trick here is no solid food. When you come off the fast, eat very slowly, and not alot, DO NOT BINGE. Satisfy yourself slowly and carefully, just enough.
To lay it down once and for all : Fat people got a fast metabolism connected to a slow body. Either speed up the body or slow down the innerds.
The quality of the food is of prime importance, forget potatoes and stuff like that. Pasta is even more devoid of nutrients. I went low carb to the point that my digestion was irregular and brought back just the right amount of carbs, in the form of rice mainly. Don't ever eat a potato chip, get a can of nuts. The mixed are the best, just read the label and make sure there are no hydrogenated oils in it, hydrogenated anything. It saps the minerals that are supposed to remain in your digestive tract for a time, for more complete digestion. When your body gets everything it needs, you will not be hungry.
No matter how much you eat, if the body does not get the nutrients it needs you will be hungry. Poor nutritional value of foods in industrialized countries is the single most primary cause of obesity. No shit. You can eat a whole pan full of fried potatoes and still need to munch on a bag of nachos because your body did not get what it needs.
This is described as cribbing in animals, and one doctor has made the analogy to the human condition. When an animal starts eating, or trying to eat rocks etc., it is a sure sign to the farmer that it needs supplements. Wallach goes on to say that young children eating paint chips off the wall is the same thing. In other words, we never had to get rid of lead based paint anymore than we need to make gasoline safe for human consumption. But when the food is not adequate, the body looks for other sources.
Copious amounts of refined salt and sugar are added to most processed foods to make the body think it is getting what it needs. It boosts sales. Salt, sugar and hydrogenated are the most important to avoid. If you need salt, get unrefined sea salt, I know it's over $5 a pound, but wonder why ? If you need sugar use brown sugar, or better yet molasses, or even better, honey.
It may sound crazy, but you are better off frying your chicken breast in bacon grease than Crisco.
Pickles, basically cucumbers soaked in vinegar. Well vinegar has a cholesterol busting property in the body. Some vinegar used to be grape juice.
Spices, eat as much spicy stuff as you can. Green leafys have more for you than white potatoes, nuts leave them in the dust. Spices are what leaves nuts in the dust. They are a fast track to mineral supplementation, and I don't think any supplement is as complete.
I eat very little, as I am a bit sedentary. With a smaller intake I watch to see that this intake is wholesome and healthy. I doubt I eat 1,000 calories a day, but I don't go by calories, calories are a farce. But you will not see me eating cornbread or a heaping plate of spagetti. Salad and meat, and I don't mean regular salad, I want all kinda stuff in there, screw the lettuce and tomato.
Calories are bullshit. You want the rundown, here it is : You were born what, eight pounds ? OK what do you weigh now ? What you weigh now is EXACTLY your birth weight, plus everyhing you have ever eaten or drank, minus what you have sweat, pissed or shit out. period. Ther is no science bad enough yet to refute this FACT.
But then this is a bit oversimplistic when it comes to losing weight. For most, when they eat and drink less, the simply sweat, piss and shit less. This is the problem. Then, you are not used to the slower metabolism and it creates the urge to binge. Even if it doesn't, the body doesn't respond all that well to reduced intake.
I don't agree at all with the five small meals a day idea. Eat once a day. Learn to ignore/quell the hunger, it is a leftover from when you were young and growing. You don't want to grow remember ? You are as tall as you are going to get, so you will grow horizontally. You tastes and urges need to grow up. I have not had soda, ice cream, potato chips or anything like it in over a decade.
Once the mind controls the body you will find things to go much better. When you look at food, don't think of the taste, think "what is in there". What will it do for my body ? Junk food to me is broccoli, carrots etc. You must go beyond, you need meat, you need nuts, you need spices. Once you pare down your diet to where your metabolism slows down, don't go back.
There are other benefits of a slow metabolism, you digest food more completely. Some minerals are especially hard to absorb, this gives your body time to do it. The benefits are substantial. You'll find some of those aches and pains go away. Losing the weight will also make you feel better, more spry, able to carry yourself more easily etc. This will make you more active by nature, starting a dangerous spiral that is detrimental to profits in the medical industry. Why do you think they tell you that it doesn't matter what you eat ? Or even give bad advice ? The food pyramid is a joke, you need to look at things in a much more advanced way. They don't know, and if they did they certainly wouldn't tell you. Why kill the cash cow ?
After the fast, gradually get back into eating, learn to be satisfied with less. Try to stay as active as you can, and hope one day to 'work up an appetite'. Yes, if you go out and play rugby, or happen to build an addition on your house youself, eat more, by all means. Just make sure it's the right stuff. No fast food, forget fast food. Learn to cook if you can't.
One of my criteria for food is 'has it been around for more than 100 years ?'. This is more valid than it appears, after all, if a hundred years ago the diet didn't work, we would not be here.
That was the deluxe two cents, it is three cents.
T
|
RE: Please Help.. - 
Profile
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread