Here is a little review from some of the previous days.
Being overweight arises from overhunger and overdesire, both of which cause us to overeat.
I will focus on strategies to reduce overdesire in the last section of this month’s reboot.
This last week I have been focusing on strategies to reduce overhunger.
Overhunger is caused by a hormone imbalance, cravings and withdrawal.
We can rebalance our hormones with food in two main ways – by what we eat and by when we eat it (more on the latter tomorrow, so stay tuned).
We have taught ourselves to be hungry when we aren’t just by looking at or thinking about certain foods or making associations. We put ourselves into a hunger state by eating too often and teaching our bodies to become “sugar burners” instead of fat adapted.
A sugar burner is just what it sounds like – your body’s primary source of fuel is sugar (glucose), which gives your body no reason to access your fat stores for fuel.
We have forced our bodies into a state of craving and withdrawal by eating artificially concentrated foods that we can’t easily process which then throw off our hormones and natural hunger and satiety signals.
The goal is to reduce hunger so that we are only hungry for the small amount of food that our body truly needs to function efficiently.
The goal is to allow our bodies to access our fat stores when we’re hungry so that our body can become fat adapted.
If you want to lose weight, your body fat needs to be your main source of fuel.
The better you can train your body to burn fat for fuel, the easier it will be to lose weight.
You will know when you are fat adapted when you can easily go twelve to sixteen hours without food.
If you are eating all the time, you are not fat adapted.
By addressing both what you eat (see day 13) and when you eat it (to be addressed more tomorrow on day 15), you can train your body to become fat adapted and more easily achieve your weight goal, not to mention help avoid some of the most common health problems facing our modern society.
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