Slimming Down - Fast!

Did you know that, according to scientists, we’ve been occupying this planet for some estimated 2.5 million years? Since then, we’ve accumulated a mass of information about our human condition. Unsurprisingly, there is no shortage of material and advice about losing weight, losing fat, slimming down – a condition that has a hugely negative impact on the lives of many of us living in the West.

 (It’s a bit off topic, before you tell that they can’t prove that, let me say that it is the same scientists and technology that gave us the internet, computers or even the smartphone you’re probably reading this on. You can’t embrace one and disregard the other – it’s all the same technology). 

Moving swiftly on ... The combined intellect of our scientists has given us new technologies and farming methods. These farming methods coupled with distribution practices make food available cheaply and in abundance. With food available cheaply and conveniently, and at low prices, we take advantage. Doing so make us feel we are living the life we were meant to live. We accept the messages from experts who appear to have our best interests at heart.

Yet more and more of us are getting fatter than ever before and dying earlier that we should. This is due in part to us being ignorant about what we eat and the part it plays in our overall health. It is also due in part to the creativeness of the manufacturers and local shops that present us with visually appealing products and smells. This makes it increasingly difficult to not want to partake of the great-looking lovely-smelling food. Everyone else is clearly enjoying that food so why not you – you ask yourself? After all, you’re not a monk! “You’re so worth it” – aren’t you.

However, many of you have realised that the messages are not always in our best interests. They are commercially driven with you being the currency. They come at your expense. It is a battle for your wallet from all quarters, often to your detriment.

Now more of us want to lose weight or get slim – we all want rid of the excess fat we are carrying – because we no longer like the way we look, we can’t do the things we used to, yet we’re not yet old. We are willing to pay the price while we can.

With health and well-being in mind, therefore, here is my list of 11 weight-loss thoughts for 2012 that I want to share with you. 

Assimilate them and make this year better than the last.

1. “You are what you think, wear, eat, feel, save, consume and spend”
   
2. “It’s not by eating fat that you get fat – skip the low-fat nonsense”
   
3. “Food is medicine – but you don’t need it all”
   
4. “Laugh more, live longer”
   
5. "Moan less about people and feel better about yourself”
   
6. “There really is no need to have the last word in a conversation”
   
7. “Don’t try to change people or teach them a lesson - change yourself if necessary”
   
8. “Weight loss doesn’t require exercise, but exercise helps longevity and makes you feel great”
   
9. “Slim down. Eat sugar, get fat, die young – you decide.”
   
10. “Your food universe should be eggs, berries, nuts, meat, fruit, fish, seeds, vegetables, water, fungi and leafy plants”
    
11. “There is no saviour to save you from yourself - cut sugar, eat everything else sparingly!
    

To your greater health and well-being

Dominic 

I’m willing to bet that most of you walk around with 2 huge misconceptions – er. Misconceptions that can make a big difference to your understanding of how weight loss works!

Why am I willing to make this bet? Because even though I studied the topic at Uni I too thought the same. Before I tell you the first one, here’s what I want you to do.

When I tell you the first big misconception I want you imagine me giving you £5 if I am right. Similarly, I want you to imagine receiving £10 from me if I am right. What is my claim? My claim is that I’m betting that you thought that “All Calories Are the Same” or put another way “calories are calories are calories”.

That is my claim but it is not true Not All Calories Are the Same!

To be fair I could have framed this better and asked you “Do you think that your body responds in the same way to all calories?” It is another way of asking you if you consider all calories to be the same. But now that you’ve thought of it for more than a second, I’m certain you can see that if you ate 100 calories of say potato mash (carbs) or 100 calories of prime Angus Steak (protein) or 100 calories of ice-cream that your body would deal each of them differently.

Naturally, things become more complex with real meals when you combine carbs, fats and protein together. What matters in real life is the ratio between the three types of calories, (the portion size of each kind), when you eat your meals, the efficiency of your digestive system, the extent to which you chew your food and how your body allocates those calories towards fat loss and muscle gain.

So what’s my point? For slimming down, losing weight or gaining weight it’s useful to understand some of the common misconceptions (in this case that all calories are the same) and how if not properly understood, they can lead you to sabotage your own goals.

To your greater weight loss

Dominic

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Have you ever wondered why there are 45,000 products in our supermarkets and  only a handful of these products don’t cause you to get fat?

I’m writing this post around the Christmas holiday time and no doubt many of you will resolve to get fitter in the coming year. It seems appropriate 
therefore, that I should give a few simple rules for really losing weight - starting right now – that will not involve making unrealistic and unnecessary sacrifices.

Stop being hostage to the food creators that are thinking more about themselves than about you. Take control yourself with these 7 guidelines to reduce your body fat naturally and relatively quickly. 

7 Easy Guidelines

1. Avoid Unnecessary Carbs. You do not need carbohydrates all the time so avoid most of them (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, sugar (glucose, fructose, honey, jam)) and eat fruits only one day at weekends - instead of everyday – you don’t need the fructose (fruit sugar) on a daily basis unless you are really active. If you can’t do without fruit eat only strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries – these you can eat any day.

Of course, you don’t avoid want to avoid carbs forever. They provide ready energy. However, you use them to control your weight like a lever when you’re close to your ideal weight.

2. Eat Regularly - Don't leave more than 3 hours before you eat again if you can! Imagine your metabolism as a fire in a fireplace. To keep a normal fire burning you would stoke it with wood to keep it burning all day. Do the same with your body making sure that you eat small amounts - handfuls regularly - so that the fire never completely dies out. By small amounts I mean a handful of say Brazil nuts, or two spoons of peanut butter – try to consume about 170-200 calories each time.

3. Don't Drink Calories. Avoid high calorie drinks and fruit juices – (NB: Water has 0 calories!) - Why drink calories then go to the gym to burn them off!

4. Snacks - Snack on pure protein foods (salmon, bacon, eggs, ham, fish, legumes, peanut  butter, lentils  and nuts) often and drink plenty of water throughout the day.  Bear in mind that there are so many millions of protein options available to you that you don’t need to eat unnecessary carbs.

5. Cause Some Confusion - Switch your meals around. Have your dinner at lunch and have your lunch meal in the evening or your lunch meal in the morning and your breakfast meal in the evenings – This keeps your body guessing.

6. Remove Temptation - If you live alone remove the carbs from around you and replace them  with tins of tuna, salmon, crab and other fish. NB: This may be difficult for many because sugar and starch (especially sugar) is addictive – but starch is just a pointless filler for weight loss – in many cases.

7. Mix it up - Treat yourself 1 day a week, maybe at the weekends, just to mix things up for your body.

If you are able to follow these rules as well as regular exercise, over the course of a few weeks, (even though exercise is not necessary per se) you should begin to see a reduction in fat. The best part is that you probably won’t need to diet as such.

From this point forward, you should also be able to discern which of the 45,000 supermarket products to safely ignore.

To your greater health

Dominic

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