Understanding your body| The best way to lose weight
By Azeez Shukurat
We
eat in response to hunger signals generated in our brain. Your body needs energy - pure "raw
calories" and specific micro-nutrient, such as a vitamin or mineral. You
experience an emotional trigger for "comfort food", which is usually
a conditioned stress response
It is crucial to know that all factors that
triggers hunger pang are regulated by your body's autonomic nervous system -
your subconscious mind. Subconscious mind are outside your conscious control
Yet, most diet or weight loss programs specifically ignore this fact and
want you to use brute force willpower -- through counting calories, exercise,
or other means -- to overcome your body's subconscious control mechanisms.
Eventual failure is virtually guaranteed.
There are three types of fat, just as there
are different types of nutritional fats we can eat, each of which has different
effects on our bodies, once there are also different types of fats stored in
our body, each with different functions. The type of fat you have will
determine how easy it is for you to lose it, even whether or not you can
lose it, and how long it will stay off or how fast you gain it back when your
"diet program" is complete. We actually have three different types of
fat in our bodies.
Your Three Types of Fat
One of the classic mistakes made by
virtually every weight loss program on the market is that it treats all fat in
your body the same. This is a huge mistake! Just as there are different
types of nutritional fats we can eat, each of which has different effects on
our bodies, once there are also different types of fats stored in our body,
each with different functions. The type of fat you have will determine how easy
it is for you to lose it, even whether or not you can lose it,
and how long it will stay off or how fast you gain it back when your "diet
program" is complete. We actually have three different types of fat in our
bodies.
Normal
Fat Reserves(superficial fat):
These fat deposits exist mainly as a layer of fat under our skin and above the
muscles. It provides a reserve of energy for short-term interruptions in the
food supply, and also as insulation for helping keep warm.
Structural
Fats/visceral fat these types of fat are deposited
around internal organ like the kidney, the heart and the liver
structural/visceral fat are a connective tissue that serves primarily as a
shock absorber.
Long
Term Fat deposits,
also called Brown Fat. This fat differs in its chemical structure from normal
fat. Once the body is signaled to create long term fat deposits through a
complex system of hormones and neurotransmitters, they only are released during
long-term extreme starvation, or during pregnancy.
How Does Body Produced And Store
Fat
The human body needs foods to
function. For the body to function optimally, the level of food intake must be
within a safety range depends on age, sex, level of mental and physical
activities. Physical activities include all our day to day activities like
sweeping, reading, walking, dancing, and cooking in fact all activities which
involve the movement of body part. The brain cell utilizes 20% of the body
glucose. So, engaging in mental activities like reading, thinking can help
reduced great amount of fat.
There are six classes of food that we must
provide the body, these are: carbohydrate, proteins, fat and oil, mineral
acids, vitamins, and water.
Carbohydrate
are required by the body to produced energy,
The carbohydrate, proteins, and fat and oil
we take are metabolized by our body to produce the need calories/energy which
the body need for our daily activities.
At any point in time when our intake of these food classes exceed the
body requirements for them or their metabolism is reduce than necessary, the
excess of it is converted into fat and stored in our body around internal organ
and beneath the skin.
Remember that it is not only fat foods that
are stored as fat, the end excess carbohydrate and proteins are also stored as
fat.
The region/ areas of fat storage are
controlled by genes and is different from person to person. The body fat
storage also varies with age, sex, and race.
The body need of calorie varies with age,
sex, level physical activities and mental activities. Physical activities include
all our day to day activities like sweeping, reading, walking, dancing, and
cooking in fact all activities which involve the movement of body part. The
brain cell utilizes 20% of the body glucose, so engaging in mental activities
like reading, thinking can help reduced great amount of fat.
Your
individual body chemistry must be taken into account in order for you to lose
weight. Before on any diet or weight loss program, you first need to know what foods are compatible with your body's
chemistry and immune system. Stress stimulates
the production of a hormone called cortisol, The presence of cortisol causes an
increase in your blood sugar. This is an important adaptation during life threatening
situation. However, during daily activities, it causes insulin production and
result in your body being more prone to storing fat, another long-term survival
adaptation. If this stress response pattern becomes more frequent, you are more
likely to store this fat as Long Term Brown Fat.
Long term, frequent stress can cause your body
to lower your metabolism and produces a phenomenon called Functional
Hypothyroidism. Your body behaves as if it is hypothyroid, even though your
thyroid is fine. Long term stress can also burn out your Adrenal glands and
reduce your ability to respond to stress.
How to Boost your metabolic rate
There are
a number of ways you can boost your metabolic rate. Exercise, diet and
lifestyle are all important areas in which you can make changes and increase
your metabolism. Exercise is a great way to boost your metabolism because it
burns calories both immediately and also keeps burning them in the long term.
The actual act of exercising will burn calories and over time your body will
adapt to your exercise regime and burn an increased number of calories overall.
Regular, moderate physical exercise is good for the body, mind, and spirit. For
those with MS, exercise is an important tool to help maintain function,
mobility, and help manage symptoms such as depression, fatigue, and anger.
Regular exercise can improve a loss of fitness caused by a sedentary lifestyle
and be therapeutic for such MS-related problems as spasticity and poor balance.Exercise also builds a reserve of muscle strength and cardiovascular function.
Then, if an attack or exacerbation of MS calls for a time-out from physical
activity, the reserve is available. When the symptoms subside and the person is
able to go back to a more normal life, there is a better foundation on which to
rebuild. Addressing the symptoms of MS with regular exercise may help to slow
the progression of the disease as one maintains or even gains more mobility.
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