Obesity levels in the UK and across the western world are soaring and current dietary advice is failing to make any impact because the advice is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Diets fail to sustain and maintain weight loss as cutting calories and restricting the amount you eat not only fails to work long term; it actually encourages binging and cravings.
Many people do not know staying slim means lowering your carb intake. A low fat high carb diet will make and keep you fat. That's why the western world has so many obese people whereas other parts of the world have people who stay at a normal weight without ever dieting. If you want to beat the staying slim battle you have to make your body a super efficient fat burning machine and the way to do this is to eat the foods nature put on the planet for us. Nature did not make pasta, cakes, biscuits, margarine and colas and when we eat refined processed foods we end up gaining weight and storing more fat even if these foods are low in calories. This is why some of us struggle with staying slim because we eat processed foods that are full of chemicals. The body produces more internal fat to keep the chemicals away from our vital organs. When we eat sugar and starch our blood sugar and insulin levels shoot up and we store more of the very fat that we want to get rid of.
Sugar, not fat, stops you from staying slim
It is a fact that the body simply cannot store fat unless insulin is present in the body and insulin is only present in the body when you eat carbohydrates. Overeating carbs can make and keep you fat because it's impossible to sustain weight loss with a high carb diet and it's almost impossible to gain that weight back if you are not eating very many carbs. Instead of living on cereals, pasta, sandwiches, crackers and snacks we need to go back to eating real and proper food. This becomes easier to do as you realise that our ancestors didn't eat the carbs we eat today and it's simply because they did not have mills, ovens or refineries. Carbs literally train your body to store fat and resist losing it, which is why a modern diet makes people fat. Thai/ Japanese diets on the other hand, include one carb (rice) and so anyone following this diet has no problem with staying slim. Your diet should be primarily eggs, fish, meat, chicken, and any other proteins like lentils and chickpeas with vegetables, salads, fruits, nuts and seeds. With these things, you don't even need to count calories.
Unless you are running a marathon...
Athlete's carb load for the very reason that the body stores carbs for energy and of course they use up the energy in running but if you are not doing marathons then this is pointless. We have all heard of runner's pasta loading before they compete because they will need that energy later. This leads many people to then eat carbs to get the energy to exercise, but if an overweight person does this all they do at the gym is burn off those carbs and not the stored fat. We don't need carbs to give us energy to exercise, after all, what do you think the Masai and Zulus did before running, hunting or going into battle? They did not pasta load as they didn't have pasta or rice or even bread as we know it, because they also didn't have mills or ovens or refineries.
Staying Slim: What to Eat and How to Eat
It is really simple if you eat from the 4 R's Ask yourself these questions before you decide what to eat:
- Does this food Roam or grow on the planet?
- Can I Recognise it as a food?
- Can I eat it Raw (even if I would prefer not to)?
- Does it Rot?
Fish, pears, peas and eggs either roam or grow, you can eat them raw, you can recognise them and they rot. Donuts, pringles, twiglets, margarine and colas do not grow or roam, you could never recognise the ingredients in them or eat them raw and far from rotting they will still be intact in 20 years. Ask yourself those questions before you eat and you will make the right choices. Also ask yourself; is this food fat burning or fat storing? And where is the protein? If you eat eggs for breakfast you will burn fat, if you eat cereal or toast and jam you will store fat and if you eat an egg on toast you will be neutral as the protein in the egg slows down the sugar levels in the toast.
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