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While you’re busy wishing that your body was more like Brad Pitt’s or Beyonce’s and less like it really is, don’t lose sight of how fantastic you already are. 

If the majority of the consumer fashion magazines are to be believed, we all want to be like somebody else, wishing to lose fat, get slimmer or even gain weight, and we simply overlook how great we truly are.

Consider the following examples. Here’s something about the body I find fascinating.

To follow me, try to determine what’s common in the scenarios I describe below.
  1. You’re fairly healthy and one day you decide to laze around the house having a slovenly weekend. (I’m ignoring what you might eat under these circumstances!)
  2. You sit for 7 hours at your work desk all day doing mostly cerebral stuff
  3. You race against your friend, about 100 metres race, as fast as you can, that lasts about 15 seconds.
  4. You’re a little late for work today and you run really fast for the bus for a full 60 seconds.
  5. At the weekend you go trekking in the hills for several hours with a full ruck sack on your back.
  6. Tomorrow you will play your regular 5-a side game of football for about 90 minutes
  7. Last summer you ran a half-marathon that lasted about 3-4 hours.
  8. A keen lover of cricket you play cricket match over 5 days
  9. Being a bit of a lunatic (in the nicest possible way, of course) you decide to do the IronMan Triathlon challenge where you swim 2.4 miles (3.86 km), ride 112 miles (180.25km) and run 26 miles (42km) in that order without a break and within a 17 hour period. As you can imagine this is truly gruelling and harsh.
  10. Or you may choose to do something as insane as partaking in a bike race that cover 2000 miles (3200 km) across 21 days with just 2 days of rest (as riders are transported from the finish in one town to the start in another town). This is the Tour de France.

Did you see the common theme? I knew you would!

The above list describes activities, of different durations, each with its own energy demands. The first energy system handles your energy needs while sedentary, i.e. while doing nothing (your brain consumes about 30% of your bodily energy needs at rest) while the last example details an extremely gruelling activity, as any cycling fan can attest to, all the way from seconds through minutes, on to hours then days. These activities require varying degrees of pain to be successful at them.

Now where am I going with this? Your body, fantastic as it is, has been designed to deal with and handle all these kinds of activities. None of the items above are unfamiliar. How does it do it? Have you ever wondered?
I’ll tell you how in another post, but from the above you can see that your design is way more complicated and sophisticated than you realise. Understand that you’re special already whatever choices you make about your weight. You have in-built ways to lose weight and body fat. Losing weight is straightforward, easy, actually, if you know how.

To your Healthy Existence

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Dominic

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