Suppose that, like me, you are a Baby Boomer and that you want continuing weight loss, in other words, you want to enhance the blend of your body by decreasing your ration of body fat.
How?
Food And Dessert
After all, there are lots and lots of distinct diet and exercise programs that supposedly promote improved body composition. You have well heard of many of them and probably even tried some yourself. Nevertheless, you have been decades without learning the underground to continuing weight loss. Why?
Permit me to advise that you are blocking yourself from what you want.
When I was growing up, my house ate three meals a day. Morning meal all the time began with juice, milk, and cereal; sometimes it included pancakes or waffles with syrup. Lunch was all the time sandwiches and milk. Supper was almost all the time meat and potatoes accompanied by a few beans or peas and a sweet dessert. Possibly your childhood eating habits were similar to mine.
This was despite the fact that my father, who was an internist, might reasonably have been expected to have a sophisticated knowledge of nutrition. Well, he did not. Nor did my mother. They loved us kids, but they did not understand how to feed us well or feed us to promote continuing weight loss.
What they well were doing was plainly recreating the eating patterns of their own childhoods.
It reminds me of a story. A five-year old girl was watching her mum prepare the ham for Easter dinner. Her mum cut the ends off the ham before putting it in the baking dish. The minuscule girl asked, "Why did you do that, Mommy?" Her mum paused for a occasion and said, "I did that because that is the way my mum all the time did it. Now that you ask, though, I do not know why she did it that way. Let us ask her." The grandmother of the minuscule girl was there visiting for the holiday meal. When they asked her, she told them, "When I was first married, I had to cut the ends off the ham because it would not fit in the only baking dish I owned, which was very small. I guess I just fell into the habit of doing it that way."
The qoute about the lack of continuing weight loss comes because, (1) unless we deliberately work to enhance them, beliefs are persistent and (2) many of our beliefs about what we ought to eat are not well-supported by nutritional evidence.
In other words, we think of ourselves as confident kinds of eaters and plainly behave accordingly; unfortunately, our nutritional beliefs about continuing weight loss are under-supported by ready evidence. Ultimately, that explains why you have been unable to perform continuing weight loss, why you are too fat.
The explication is to do a much good job examining your nutritional beliefs. It may never have occurred to you even to demand them! I infer that this is the kind of example that led Plato to write that "[t]he unexamined life is not worth living." Please make it a deliberate course to witness those beliefs that are controlling your eating habits. That is the right way for you to enhance body composition. To enhance your body, enhance your mind.
In fact, it is best to lead an examined life, a life in which you deliberately question, seriously examine, all your prominent beliefs. The only real alternative is to rely on luck or magic--and neither luck nor magic leads to living well.
Should you be eating processed grains such as Morning meal cereals and breads? Should you be eating dairy products? Should you be eating potatoes? Should you be drinking juice?
The truth is that those are examples of foods that your victorious ancestors never ate. [I advise never eating them.]
If you are serious about continuing weight loss, I advise setting aside all your beliefs about which foods are best to eat and demand them seriously. Re-admit only those that stand up to faithful examination.
Also witness your feeding frequency. Where is it written that human beings should eat only three times a day? [I advise eating about every three waking hours.]
Meanwhile, during your examination, eat only natural foods that are as similar as potential to those of your victorious Pleistocene ancestors. The fact is that they flourished on those foods. Since your genes are 99.9% the same as your ancestors' genes 10,000 years ago, you will physically flourish on those foods as well.
All the contemporary diseases, along with obesity, of contemporary humans are avoidable. Most of us kill ourselves by the way we live. Our diets are too poor (and unnecessarily poor); for example, we eat too many refined or processed carbohydrates as well as other starchy, salty, and sugary foods. We exercise too little. We drink too much alcohol, and we smoke. (There is a list of recommended readings on my website that maintain these claims.)
If you are typical and you would rather flourish physically than remain as you are, please at least suspend some of your beliefs in order to test some other ones to see if they work better. There is no shortage: there is an ample sufficiency of productive ideas about continuing weight loss and improved health, fullness for everyone.
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How to Persuade Yourself to Lose Weight
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