You have faulty mind sets, (incorrect programming based on faulty conclusions.)
Until you "fix" and correct those your body condition stays the same. and all your knocking yourself out to lose weight is a waste of time. For example, if you eat too many sugar based calories (sugar is common in fat free foods) then your body won't be able to handle high sugar peaks and those sugar calories, and this is precisely the only kind of calories that are stored as fat tissue.
These are "wrong" calories, the only kind that your body makes into fat, eat those, and ONLY then can you get and maintain body fat.
Obese people remain overweight their whole lives even though they eat less calories total, starving themselves supposedly, than some of their skinny friends and family members because they eat "carb" or "Sugar" calories, the ONLY kind turned by the human body into fat.
They too can be thin, but first have to unlearn some mistaken ideas and learn to EAT THE RIGHT TYPES OF CALORIES EACH DAY.
The total calories do NOT matter, it is how many of the WRONG kind of calories you eat that the body can and DOES turn into fat. You see, your body needs protein, carbs and fat calories too. Your body needs all 3 types of calories, but it does not need them all in the same proportions at every meal. It needs very little sugar or carbs, in fact can survive ON NONE, (ask an Eskimo)
Your mind set and past "indoctrination" is that fat calories add weight, which is totally incorrect.
Fat can and does speed up weight loss believe it or not, while "fat free foods" will actually make you overweight. they have added sugar to make up for lack of satisfying fat content and since essential fat (dietary fat is absolutely essential) is lacking YOU EAT MORE total food and often winding up with twice the fat making sugar calories then if you ate full fat satisfying food.
Try to understand how all this explains why your losing weight has been so difficult.
Not just you, the entire society has bought into this misconception of selling "low fat" and is paying the price, as you notice, suffering from a serious obesity and diabetes problem with both getting worse at a faster and faster rate..
The ANSWER to weight loss is the exact OPPOSITE of what you have been falsely led to believe and the American public has been sold on, and continues to be sold on, (look at the magazine racks).
The media craze has been to get you to falsely believe that eating "fat" is bad and that eating "fat free foods" is healthy. That may "seem" logical at first, eat fat, you get fat, buy our "fat free" or LO FAT product and you will get thin.
In reality, the exact opposite is true.
Eating "fat" does not turn to fat tissue in your body, (read that again) and eating "fat free" does not cause weight loss to happen because it has even higher then usual sugar to compensate for the absence of the normal fat content. To begin losing weight you must realize this fact only "HIGH SUGAR and carb content generate high insulin (fat making hormone) and forces your body to make fat. (only insulin is a fat making hormone) (eating fat does NOT make insulin.)
Open your mind and get this straight, until you do you are going to continue to be one fat mother, no matter how much you fight it..
If you want to lose weight, then you absolutely must learn to straighten out your "belief system" and only eat foods which have fat burning properties, these are foods which keep your blood sugar level (forget up and down sugar peaks) and your life becomes more normal and stable throughout the day. You see, if you continue to eat these high sugar "low fat" foods which cause your blood sugar level to spike upwards too sharply (fat digests slowly and slows digestion considerably of what is mixed with preventing sugar spikes,) (high sugar spikes is what is turning on fat making hormone high insulin spikes).
Your body makes insulin to prevent damage from "high blood sugar" and its job is to suppress, high blood sugar. (turn it to fat) (eating fat DOES NOT raise fat making hormone "insulin" levels, it suppresses it.)
Eating high sugar, then you'll feel "energetic" for a short while but then afterwards your blood sugar level will drop way too low and you'll feel tired and lethargic for the rest of the day, and ravenously hungry and need "another" sugar fix.
The higher your blood sugar rises (result of high sugar and absence of slow digesting fat mixed with it,) then you will find that after a meal, then the lower your blood sugar will drop afterward,
This big drop in blood sugar puts you back to eating "more sugar" (tremendous urge for something sweet) (and you will find it and eat it) because your body is "low on blood sugar". And when the down cycle drops again, you'll feel tired and hungry all over again, and you keep right on eating high sugar foods, and you can not understand why you seem to have lost "self control", you think you must have a personality flaw.
This is why obese people often suffer from "highs and lows" in their energy level, and why they "can not stop eating "sweets".
But if you begin eating high fat foods (which keep your blood sugar level stable throughout the day) then your energy will be steady all day long, you'll have plenty of energy and you won't ever feel tired or lethargic, you will NOT become ravenously hungry and in dire need of your usual "sugar fix". Also, when your blood sugar level is kept stable then your body will switch over to it's natural fat burning engine operating system (which is shut down totally when on a "sugar economy".)
Your body will again start to burning fat tissue naturally as an operating system.
Your body has been flooded with sugar and the fat burning operating system has been totally shut down trying to burn out the oversupply of sugar. (to keep you from drowning in high blood sugar and resulting body damage.) In diabetes, your body's ability to continue to cope has been exceeded. That's why you absolutely have to starve yourself with other diets to try to lose weight.
You can starve yourself on these diets for a while, but you can NOT do it long term and you will GAIN it all back.
Since your body has been forced to be operating on a SUGAR economy, operating system, your body has REFUSED to burn fat.
Therefore when you lose weight on these numerous fad diets you are LOSING ONLY MUSCLE mass, and when YOU REGAIN, you do not regain muscle, you regain the weight with new BODY fat.
Every time you do a YO YO diet your body becomes a higher percentage of fat. In contrast, when you get off of sugar and carbs as we point out, your body switches back to man's natural designed for operating system, "fat burning".
Your body has no choice but to go back to the system it was designed for, HIGH FAT......burning and OPERATING on fat,
Man for 100,000 years ran on approximately 75% of calories from fat, 20% from protien and ONLY 5% from carbs. This is the ratio YOUR body was also designed for. They have sold you on going down to as low as 20% of your calories from fat and the rest of your energy needs from FAT MAKING Carbs. Your body is forced to switch to a "sugar operating system" to keep from drowning in this self imposed high blood sugar. This system does not work, it has NEVER worked, has been a health disaster, in not only in creating a diabetes and obesity epidemic (started and coincides with the low fat craze) but great increases in degenerative diseases such as cardio vascular and cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer's etc. as well.
Now you can keep believing their pitch and you will never get thin.....
.....and your life expectancy goes in the toilet....
(US life expectancy now dropped to 42nd in the world and falling at a rapid rate each year, lower and lower as backward nations outlive us by far..)
This is so ingrained and sold to you that I can not convince you to eat all the fat you want, (saturated, included, in fact preferred) (what man has always ate for 100,000 years) and cut out all man made fats (vegetable etc) and altered, polyunsaturated, transfats, hydrogenated etc.. Until you get this straight and accepted in your head, you will revert right back to your old ways because you just can not let yourself eat full fat...and eat enough of it to switch your body to a fat burning system again, without feeling guilty. *(you have to eat a lot of good fat to make it 75% of your calories.)
That is how "brain washed" you and the public are.....and what I say here....most likely goes nowhere, though this has been known for century's.. I did not discover it.
I just call it to your attention....continue to eat low fat and stay fat...I tried very hard to explain it best I can and convince you, even though I have NOTHING to sell you.
To learn more on how your body naturally burns fat and keeps you thin, without counting calories or even exercising, read my other articles.
About the author:
The author is 80 years old and became diabetic 3 years ago. Switching to a caveman or paleo natural unprocessed food menu, high fat, no flour or sugar, similar to his ancestors diet, he lost 65 pounds and has kept it off for 3 years with no concious effort to do so.
Takes no mediction for diabetes or anything else. Does take some vitamins and supplements.
Eats many times per day whenever he feels like it (basic foods his ancestors ate, no processed food,) and never goes hungry, nor skimps on anything.
Goes out of his way to eat every bit of saturated fat he can find, including fatest roasts and steaks, bacon etc. large variety of nuts daily, Several table spoons per day of coconut oil, and flaxseed oil, with salads etc
Eats over a half pound of grass fed butter per week. with veggies etc.
Gets some walking exercise about every other day (has a dog) but does not deliberately do anything to exercise.
Large amounts of food, or small amounts, extra physical exertion or exercise or none at all for periods, weight has naturally stayed within 3 pounds for over two years.
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Your Body Fat Stays And Increases Unless Your Faulty Mind Sets Are Fixed
I'm pretty skeptical about what he's saying. Eating a lot of saturated fats and high fat foods can have pretty serious effects on your arteries. He's just addressing weight and diabetes in that article.
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed without medication in some cases. It's all about eating the right combinations and moderate portions of foods. I was talking about this not long ago with a friend of mine who is a doctor. My dad was fairly recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes so I've been learning as much about it as I can.
Anyway, my friend was telling me about a patient of his who was diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic. The patient didn't want to take medication and instead dedicated himself to changing his eating and exercise habits. A year later, his blood glucose levels were within the normal non-diabetic range and he's maintained it.
IMO, the best thing to do is to go to a diabetic education class or a registered dietician and get a program and/or information on how to determine what foods you need to be mindful of and information on portion control. There's no reason why you can't eat anything you want - you just have to be mindful of the portions and the frequency that you eat certain things.
If you don't have time to see someone in person, take a look at diabetes.org.
Personally, I don't care for most of the low-fat foods and prefer to just use less of a normal product since I try to watch what I eat.
The guy that wrote this and runs the sight is about 80 ... so he is not real concerned about keeping his arteries around for any length of time .....
on the other hand ..... he has a lot a great points ..... most of the same ones you mentioned .....
I like his cave man style eating .... which amounts to just grazing all day long on mostly catobolic foods ... never really eating a large meal ....
I looked into the classes ... 1000 bucks ... I'm way to cheap for that ..... With a little work ... I can find what I need ....
My biggest problem is not enough green in my diet ... seems like if it satisfies me ... it;s bad for me .... and I need to get more exercise .... which is hard in my line of work .... but I do know that I can get my number right with out the meds if the world is being kind ... but to keep it there when all hell breaks loose is another thing ... and then it takes awhile to get it back right ...
If you have health insurance and have been diagnosed by a doctor, those classes or a session with a registered dietician should be covered, just like your glucose meter and its supplies.
The American Diabetes Association website also offers live chats with nurses or dietician on their site, I believe.
Whatever you choose to do, don't play around with diabetes and try to get a quick fix. It really involves a lifestyle change in terms of eating. Yes, you'll slip up occasionally, but that should be the exception rather than the rule.
And that guy might not care about his arteries, but you need to care about yours.
Yes, that's true, SU. And WE care about your arteries too.
I strongly agree with the concept of reducing or eliminating simple carbohydrates like sugar and flour, but people go too far the other way and eliminate complex carbs as well, and overload on protein and fat.
I definitely support any attempts you make to control your diabetes with diet instead of (or along with) medication, and I completely agree that you need to get more veggies. I imagine that must be quite difficult when you're on the road.
It's like I've said before (and this is something I need to remind myself of right now). Your body will take over and get used to a new way of eating, so it gets less difficult as time goes by. The struggle to eat right today will be a whole lot easier a week from now, and a habit by next month. Just try to avoid all-or-nothing thinking (which is my own biggest downfall). Ease into it, and forgive yourself when you mess up.
I'm changing everything this year .... from my job to my attitude .... freight rates dropped last year and we had to deal with way to many sucky ass people to ..... It's hard to do what you need for yourself when people and life keep shoveling shit into the fan at you .....
So IO has had time to talk .... Thank you Ladies ..... and I basically forced her mom to at least acknowledge that their was a problem so she and her can talk .... I think UPS will relieve a lot of stress looking for decent freight 24/7 .....
SO I'm thinking that will leave me more time for exercise and a more normal life at the house ... actual home time ...... and time to figure out my numbers and keep them level with out any meds .....
