You Aren’t Fat Enough Yet!
If the tips below sound too hard, or you’re thinking ‘I can’t do to this,’ You Aren’t Fat Enough Yet!
Fat Loss Tips – Part 1 of 2 – Muscle is the ‘good cop’ and you need to retain it to assist you in staying slim long term.
Okay, so we’re into the second quarter of 2010 and at the start of the year it was reported that: ‘UK NHS obesity related admissions have increased by 70%’. This means people with weight problems were formerly warned or had treatment via their G.P, prior to hospital admission. This further means that WE will pay for this pandemic treatment somehow or some way; I suspect via raised taxes.
As a former ‘fatty’ I am venting my frustration at the obese community. Having been there myself, I have heard and applied all the excuses and waffle that comes with being ‘morbidly obese’ as I was formerly categorised – rightfully so, I was 15 stone+ (roughly 217 pounds) at just under 5’2. But I learned the hard way and had to apply strategies and created an alter-ego who is the disciplinarian in me. Sounds borderline lunacy? It works for me, and that’s all that counts in my books and dress size.
Why am I frustrated? Well, during my fat period of 18-years, I didn’t have the litany of information and support that exists today, so why aren’t those suffering with weight issues coping better by using the available information? In my experience you really can’t afford to ignore the research that is needed to overcome this unhealthy state. See it as investing in your future.
Yes I know it can be overwhelming, but so are many challenges you face daily. Recently food addictions have been compared to having a class-A drug addiction – that insight speaks volumes. So I can relate to the challenge you face; you have to accept it’s one you need to overcome to prolong your longevity – or You Aren’t FAT Enough Yet. I was, and left myself with no choice but to address, or start planning my burial. I trust you would prefer not to be held hostage in the same manner? Once your G.P gets involved, you are more or less stripped of any choice in the matter anyway.
My aim here is to save you time, frustration and possibly distrust in your own ability towards positive change, and I promise you it’s worth the effort.
Some weight management organisations out there, especially the ones that offer you free registration very often, are there to make money. Your welfare may come across as sincere and their priority but I assure you, not before they make a profit from your plight! What you weigh is not the be all and end all of a healthy body composition. Understand this and research this fact until it is your truth.
Muscle is three times more dense than fat, so one pound of FAT takes up three times more space than one pound of muscle.
Please read that over as many times it takes you to ‘get it’.
Now do you understand why weighing with the current physiological information we have access to is almost void? Throw your scales away I say, your dress size tells the true ‘tale of the tape’ and it’s that that counts when you’re trying to squeeze an oversized butt into a public chair!
Should you approach an organisation to assist you with your FAT loss, be diligent and learn that it is not so much about how much you weigh, but what your measurements are too. Body Mass Indexing is height to weight ratio and can still be used as an informative tool – just don’t be fooled into thinking it’s the be all and end all.
My self-esteem was at an all-time low during my heaviest days, and being told you have gained weight (due to muscle build unbeknown to you) can destroy your motivation all together and can also negate your attempts.
Here are two tips in the first of my two-part Fat Loss Tips:
Assess your movements and habits. Get into the habit of doing this and consider these questions.
- How do you fit food into your daily movements?
- Do you have busy working lunches or are you a socialite who eats and drinks out often?
- Are you a busy working mum/partner?
- Have you just bought a car after years of walking?
The culprit is hidden in not only what you eat and drink, but how, as well as your lifestyle content – the factors that affect you being overweight is in there somewhere – hunt it down!
I recommend you do this assessment as a starting point and be honest. Ultimately you can lie to yourself but your body suit tells exactly what you are up to. For those of you assuming you have some metabolic issue – go and get that assumption checked out by someone who can clarify – I bet there’s nothing wrong with your metabolic rate except for the strain YOU put on it!
Eat FAT to burn FAT!
If you do not give your body what it needs, it will trigger a trip-switch for primeval survival. For instance, if you do not drink enough water, you will retain water – puffy ankles and wrists are a give-away to this (water retention can also be due to hormonal influxes). There’s a hidden message in here also — our body’s function using primeval protocols — and once we start to go against this grain such as consuming refined/processed foods the western world thrives on, we cause major disruptions with our physiological equilibrium which in turn often results in stress and DIS-ease, allergies, unbalanced skin, obesity etc. were all non-existent once upon a time and can therefore be eradicated with the correct applications. I am walking proof!
Now given the above, if you do not consume enough FAT, your body will make every attempt to retain it. This – to state the obvious – is not the objective when trying to burn FAT. No jumping for joy just yet. There are a few types of FAT in existence. Good and bad like most things. You want to migrate towards the Essential FATS of monounsaturated found in foods such as avocados, olives, nuts and seeds. They aren’t deemed ‘essential’ for the fun of it – elements of fatty acids can’t be assembled from raw materials by themselves!
Avoid FATS that are solid at room temperature with the exception of animal proteins in moderation.
Avoid Trans-FATS such as margarines, fast and deep fried foods, cakes and similar snacks as much as you can as these are the culprits that cause high cholesterol and conditions just right to develop heart DIS-ease(s).
Here are some benefits to FAT loss:-
- No more chaffing!
- Highly improved mobility!
- Revamped sex life!
- Better circulation
- Better complexion!
- Better energy levels!
- Impulse shopping minus the frustration!
- Impulse dressing!
- Improved self-image/esteem!
- Liking your reflection!
- Less visits to your G.P!
- Your boobs are separate entities again and no longer merge into your back (this includes men too)!
- Nicer underwear choices with better fits!
- Self-control and drive abilities which transcend into other areas!
- General feeling of wellness, abundance and joy!
- No more excess sweating and possibly bad odours!
- No longer part of a pandemic statistic!
- You feel and look great!
- Next – Fat Loss Tips – Part 2 – Knowledge Is Power.
© 2010 Natasha Martelly
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