Important Disclaimer: I am neither a doctor, a physicist, nor a mechanic…but I have something to say.
There’s a grim reality I have to face soon, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
First, I’d like to remind everyone that physics trumps everything. It governs everything that moves or sits still. It out ranks genetics. I say this because there are gravitationally challenged (trying to be less offensive as some are sensitive to the word “fat”) people who have beliefs such as:
- I come from a fat family
- God just made some of us to be big and beautiful
- I’ve been fat my whole life
All of those beliefs may be true (the second being more subjective), but they are not immutable truths.
If you’re from a fat family, it’s not because you carry some fat gene that has predetermined your physique; it’s something else you inherited from your parents: Their eating habits
That’s the magic of physics. Regardless of the diet you’re trying to adhere to: Eat more calories than you burn, gain weight. Burn more calories than you eat, lose weight. It’s the law.
Imagine your body is like a car. Your engine is your metabolism and its efficiency largely depends on the manufacturer specifications (that’s your genetics in this analogy). The color of the car, the shape of the headlights, the softness of the interior, and any other superficial detail has no effect on performance. This particular car runs on fuel, but rather than a tank that holds a fixed amount, let’s pretend it has an expandable bladder which will allow to put as much fuel in as you want. If you keep adding fuel before burning what was in reserve, the fuel container expands…it gets heavier. Every time the car moves, it has to deal with this extra weight that you keep adding to. The point is, that many of us larger cars refuel way too often. We don’t move enough to burn the fuel we already have and the container keeps expanding…and then everything gets tougher.
Our bodies are much more complex than anything humans have ever made, so things aren’t as cut ‘n dry as I laid out in my car analogy. For one, we have more than one tank that our body can power itself with. We have many types of fuel we can choose from and those have more complex properties as well…some burn better than others, some barely burn at all.
In order for me to make real progress, I need to do three things:
- Keep one of the tanks as close to empty as possible. (the body’s favorite and most easily accessible “tank”, the blood sugar)
- Eat the right proteins and do the right exercises so I lose as little muscle as possible (the body’s second favorite “tank”)
- Burn more calories than I eat
Keto takes care of the first one, but the other two require some attention.
Here’s the grim reality I mentioned in the beginning: I’m still eating too much and not moving enough. This means my plan for February needs to change.
I’ll report back as soon as that plan is final.
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