Slimming Down - Fast!

I want to tell you a quick story.

A few months ago I was reading a book by Ian Marber about food entitled How Not to get Fat. I turned to a page that to this day has remained with me. On the left page was a list of things that the author described as being ok to eat. There were so many items in this list of foods that the font of the text had to be reduced to fit them all onto the page.

On the page on the right was a list of things you shouldn’t eat, that you should therefore avoid. In fact, it was one thing. Just one thing! Do you know what that one thing was? Yes, you guessed it right – Sugar.

Sugar is possibly one of the most addictive substances ever. It is everywhere and appear in many forms of lovely looking, sweet tasting, fantastic smelling cakes and pastries. We love it- we tell ourselves that we deserve it. The fact that sugar is all pervasive (everywhere) is a measure of the extent that we love it and crave it and shops stock it in abundance because we continue demand it.

Finding lunch around London can be difficult if you favour a protein-based lunch because all around are all kinds of carb-based sandwiches, pastas and sweet pastries.

What’s less obvious about sugar is that it’s close to the kind of energy that the body expects to use.  It is easily convert to glucose to use as energy. In the form of sugar it does not take much energy to convert for a process that is already very efficient in converting intake to glucose. Sugar in all its forms, is one of the easiest to convert as opposed to something like steak for example.

While like most people I love sweet things, the thing to note about sugar is that unless you intend to use that immediate energy by exerting yourself regularly you’re likely to store that energy as fat automatically and in all the wrong places – then you spend the rest of your life trying to get rid of it. Sugar and carbs are useful for those outdoor workers that require energy often – builders and sportspeople spring to mind, but much less useful for those of us who sit in front of computer screens all day long.

My advice to you is to be strong- resist sugar in all its forms. Think medium to long term. Living a long life requires that you be tough, mentally strong and resilient. The sooner you can liberate yourself from the tyranny of sugar, the healthier you will be over the long term. Not only that, but you will be ruling out the possibility of all kinds of sugar-related diseases like diabetes mellitus where you may end up having to have a limb or two removed. That is not the life your mother intended for you at birth now, is it? 

According to Wikipedia, diabetes is also linked Alzheimer Disease, not to mention tooth decay and potential loss of teeth. Say this now to yourself “No dentures for me, ever”. Imagine your dentures in a glass of water. Not a pretty sight is it?

So, have sugar only occasionally, if at all. Don’t try to replace the sugar taste with sweeteners (there are already links to brain disease for some sweeteners on the market)– go the whole distance and change your tastes – remember that you learned those tastes and so they can be unlearned. You will definitely be liberated.

So be tough, be strong, get started today. Take your power back. You are at the end of a long line of survivors so don’t become the wrong kind of statistic. Dump the sweet stuff today.

Time will show that this is one of the most useful pieces of information that it is possible for you to receive – all because of that book I stumbled across.

Education is key – read about it and learn for yourself How Not to Get Fat

To your greater weight loss

Dominic

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