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If we don’t eat, we die. If we eat too much of the wrong food and too little of the right food, we get sick and die. This is the way it has always been. However, today we have access to all sorts of edible products which are being marketed and manufactured to make us addicted to them and prefer them over the food that our body has evolved to run on. We don’t even have to go to the supermarket to get these edible products — we can get them delivered directly to our home. That is a giant step away from the hunter-gathering our forefathers did and to which our bodies are still adapted.
Your body has one goal: keeping you fit and healthy. Work with this amazing organism instead of against it and you will thrive.
The human body is not a machine or a temple but a complicated and delicate organism with a multitude of interconnected systems that works to keep equilibrium. If some of these systems break down or the communication between them is disturbed or interrupted, your well-being is affected. When you feel less than 100% your body is telling you that something is wrong. Your job is to listen and give it the best conditions to function properly. Sometimes it can fix the problems on its own, sometimes it needs help from drugs or surgery. No matter the severity of the problem, nutrition is crucial. Food may be part of the problem or not, but it is always a part of the solution.
When we eat sugar or starch our blood sugar level shoots up and extremely high amounts of insulin are released. This is not a problem if it only happens occasionally — the body can handle this — but if we eat lots of sugar regularly and the insulin never leaves the bloodstream the body will see these raised insulin levels as the new normal. The set-point weight is then raised to a level that is too high and the body is never told to burn body fat because there is always insulin in the bloodstream. All the excess energy is sent to the fat cells to be used later but as we just learned this never happens. So it is not the amount of calories in your food that matters, but the effect the food has on your insulin levels. Your body doesn’t count calories, but insulin levels. When you overwhelm it with aggressive food that triggers a lot of insulin your body gets upset. It’s like you’re yelling at your body and just like most people it doesn’t like to be yelled at.
If you eat too much sugar too often, your fat metabolism system will be thrown off and you will gain body fat.
The long term effects of overflow of insulin are not very nice. Your body could develop insulin resistance — which could be seen like one part of the body yelling to the other part all the time, but the other part has gotten so used to being yelled at that it has stopped listening. From insulin resistance there is only a short way to and all the serious complications this disease has. Speak softly to your body by eating in-aggressive slow-release carbohydrates, protein and fat. Remember, we evolved to thrive on natural whole foods like roots, nuts, seeds, berries, fruits, legumes, vegetables, seafood and meat. See the to find food that doesn’t trigger a very high level of insulin in most individuals. Remember we all have different sensitivities and allergies so you need to try the different kinds of food and see how they work for you. If they make you feel better: Great, eat more of them. If they make you feel bad: Don’t eat them, replace them with something similar or better. Youcan not follow someone elses diet, you need to find your own.
Food was sometimes scarce so our brain is hard-wired to go into starvation mode when necessary. When you cut calories and gives your body less nutrition than it needs for a prolonged period of time you are in effect starving. Starvation mode is not a good state to be in. It makes you sad and sick and the worst part is that when you stop starving yourself (which you will have to at some point), you will accumulate even more fat. This is the body’s protection against future starvation, it is called ‘fat super accumulation’ and it happens even if you only eat a normal amount of food.
Yo-yo dieting and starvation is a very bad strategy if you are aiming for long-term fat loss, health and happiness.
Your body does not like to be ignored and when it senses starvation it will slow down the metabolism to hang onto the energy as long as possible. It will also get rid of the most energy-consuming tissue, your muscles. So the less, you eat, the less fat you burn and you will loose the very tissue that helps you burn fat. You will also have less endurance and be more prone to depression.
To get the best out of your body you have to have quality talks. You do that by eating high quality food that has a positive effect on your metabolism – food that makes your body happy.
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