The Wellness of YOU! - # 52
posted in Nutrition and Weight Loss |What Makes Us Fat?
What Makes Us Fat? So far we’ve talked about how much water we drink, how many miles we walk, what effect genetics might play, how getting older might play a role in our nutrition and weight loss goals, and yesterday we tore into the awfulness of junk food.
Today we’re going to take a look at calories and their role in our weight loss efforts.
Do you feel as though you get too many calories just by eating too much or too often? I suppose that could be a part of the problem, but it does boil down to something a little more complex than just eating too much.
We get too many calories by eating the wrong kind of foods! (Here we go again — this discussion just picks up on what we were talking about yesterday, doesn’t it?) The kind of food that makes us fat — and gives us too many calories — is calorie-dense food. Anytime you eat a food that has been processed with refined carbohydrates (sugar-laden food), hydrogenated oils and saturated fats, that is a calorie-dense food. Not only is it loaded with calories, it has absolutely no nutritional value.
When you eat something that has no nutritional value, your body doesn’t know that it has consumed anything because the body is waiting for something that will give it value (or energy). If it doesn’t get that fuel to stoke it’s energy furnace, then it keeps sending signals to your brain saying, “I’m still hungry!” Since your brain is getting that “feed me” signal, you commence to eat more food. If it’s calorie-dense food (like junk food) then you just keep repeating the cycle over and over — and you get fatter and fatter.
The secret to cutting back on the weight gain is to eat food that is high in nutritional value. As I mentioned yesterday (and in many, many of these articles), this includes things like fresh fruits and vegetables. When you eat this sort of food, it is really hard to eat too much. You can — especially if you eat too fast — and that’s not good either — but if you really slow down, savor the taste of this good food, and pay attention to your body you will see that you’re not getting any messages to your brain about being hungry. You are feeding your energy furnace what it needs and you will feel satisfied.
Be sure to check back here again tomorrow, when we’ll continue our journey towards achieving your nutrition and weight loss goals.
Until then, remember to follow a good-fat — good-carb diet and stay with your regular exercise.
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Have a great day. I’ll be back tomorrow with some more nutrition and weight loss thoughts for you.
Shanti,
Ron
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