Diet is Not the Way to Leaner

I really don’t use the word diet in my descriptions of healthy eating because I don’t like the connotations.  Diet connotes to most people suffering and short term program.

99% of people are not successful

The first goal should not be to lose ten pounds of weight by not eating certain foods for a few months and kicking up the aerobic exercise. This has failure written all over it.

We’re human and live under lots of stress.  We have too much on our plates. Most people increase what’s on their plates by upping their communication activities.

Gaining weight is mostly the result of food being comforting. The limbic emotional brain actually gets happy with nice fatty foods. We eat big because we feel we deserve it; after all, look what we have to go through.

If you would like to look in the mirror and see 25% less of the beautiful you, your concept of eating has to progress from comfort eating to optimizing what your body needs.

Your mind tells you what your body wants, not needs. Your body wants you to eat like a bear, or gorilla, or elephant.  These are all very strong and very healthy vegetarians although the bear will eat fish to get his omega 3’s and play in the water.

Exercise for most people who do it to lose weight is torture. You either love exercise or not and it is not necessary to get lean. Exercise is great and necessary for supporting brain function, helping you feel good, maintaining flexibility, and it does add to build your metabolism.

The body actually adds fat to insulate the organs from acidic and harmful foods. The more processed foods, bad fats, and meat you eat, the more insulation the body has to add to keep the ingredients from circulating in your system where they can damage and even kill you.

The more you eat like your forest friends who don’t have BarBQuess, the more fat the body can release just as a start. Eliminating foods is as important as what you add. You don’t ever need to starve.

Eliminating cooked and processed foods and adding foods that are grown in the ground will make you leaner. Cooked foods remove nutrients so your body is not satisfied. A salad is like an intravenous feeding.

But of course you are not “limbic” happy after a salad or fruit so you have to add. It’s what you add, that can make all the difference. Start by adding what ever you have to but start substituting cleaner.

Once you start eating cleaner you will never put the weight back on. You can choose whether or not to exercise. Exercise is great for everything but losing weight for most people. I am avid exerciser but it would never take off weight if I didn’t eat right.

If you are a dieter, you will exercise and then give yourself food rewards.

So, think eating healthier for a lifetime. Start slow. Pounds drop off fast when you hit the right notes. Since I have moved to the beach I have lost 15 pounds by eating cleaner and not thinking about dieting. The weight continues to fall off as I give my body super foods so that it no longer has cravings and allergies.

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