| feb 15 2007 | | Fat. | Pills, creams, belts as seen on TV, fad diets or prayer will not make you lose weight. The secret everyone ignores is eat less, move more.
Just as there is no get rich quick scheme but get rich slowly does work, so dieting wont work but a change in lifestyle permanently will. I will tell you how. Why don’t they teach this stuff in schools?
Those extra pounds that are killing you did not go on in a week or a month, so do not expect them to vanish quickly. Mostly because of ignorance and a small helping of sloth we (yes take responsibility) altered our body shape. Now unless you are willing to change your life to get back to a healthy body mass, stop reading now. Just like quitting smoking, you are not ready until you are ready and only you know when you have reached that state. For me it was getting diagnosed with diabetes II i.e. high glucose and insulin resistant, with high blood pressure, high HDL cholesterol, obesity, all of which may well disappear if I lose 10% of my body mass. Note that I refer to body mass not weight, as you can be very heavy but healthy, body builders come to mind. The important thing is to monitor your inches, not your pounds. Throw those scales away, they will only discourage you.
Forget terrorists, its food manufactures that are killing us. Regardless of the hysteria the media want you to feel, you are more likely to die of a heart attack or stoke, than some nutter with explosives strapped to them. You should consider all processed food as poison until you prove otherwise. You should consider all fast food as poison, no exceptions. No one is that busy. You need to read product labels. The advertising on the front that screams low fat, half the sugar, no trans-fats, etc. may disguise the fact that they have loaded up the product instead with more sugar, more fat or more salt to improve the taste. Food shopping will take you twice as long to start with but as you buy mostly the same things each week you will get the hang of it and speed up.
Here comes your part. You have to get books and research the internet for information on nutrition, calorie counters, exercise, etc. In general you will be eating lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. You will be eating small portions of rice, pasta, nuts, dairy. You will clear your house of white sugar, white bread, cakes, crisps, sweets, you know what I mean. Aim to eat six times a day but keep within your calories, say 8am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 6pm and 8pm. Then nothing. Pack up your regular dinner plates and starting serving your main meals on half size plates, it works. You will exercise more and that means walking at least thirty minutes a day plus use weights thirty minutes a week, and by this I mean you can start off with two 2ltr. Pop bottles filled with water.
Omentum is caused in large part by lack of momentum. Don’t know what your omentum is? No neither did I. Another thing you don’t learn at school. Your omentum is attached to the outside of your stomach. On a healthy person it looks like strands hanging down. It consists of fat cells and has the job of storing fat to be used as energy. If you store too much fat by eating more, moving less, this is the first place that fat goes. The more you eat, the more it grows, pushing aside your other organs. This is what gives you your beer belly. It is not fat under your skin, it is fat under your muscle wall. That’s why guys can have a hard tub of a belly. Fat is distributed to other areas of your body, like arms, legs or butt but is not as dangerous as your omentum. The other area we get fat is our face and neck and this is dangerous as it can cause problems like sleep apnea. Fat from this area is, luckily, the first to noticeably disappear. All the nutrients we absorb through the intestines pass through your liver via the portal vein. The bad news is the omentum has direct access to the portal vein and hence can dump fat directly into your liver which causes a defensive reaction by the liver.
So anyone is welcome to join me on this quest to fight my omentum and win my body back. I have been doing this for a month now and I will concede that it does take will-power to reverse those bad habits which were killing me but felt so good. I am continuing to learn to improve my habits. I have had slip-ups but that doesn’t mean I failed. I am having regular health follow-ups to check blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol and I am considering introducing supplements I have researched as a control study. In the mean time I am pricking myself to check glucose, walking like a hamster and eating like a sparrow. You have nothing to lose but your fat.
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