Digesting Myself

What is weight loss? We start off with billions of fat cells in our body, cells that are absolutely stretched and stuffed with fatty acids. They warm us and give us energy when we need it, they keep us from starvation, but what about when we have too many, like hundreds of pounds of extra fat? Then we have to eat it. We literally have to finish what we started.

The fat that resides in our bodies, lining our tissues, strangling our organs, pressing outward all the time is the result of excessive meals and snacks that have gone into long-term storage in our bodies. Eventually it becomes time to eat what's in the chest freezer rather than dining out. Do you have a storage freezer and you only touch what's on the top? Only the stuff that you can dig out? The stuff that's been in there for five years, that stuff just stays in there. You just put the new stuff on top of it. Well, it's time to clean house.

So we decide eat less, and we move more and our own body utilizes that stuff in storage. It eats it. It dines heartily on it. It is a great food source, the best food for your muscles and it has been sitting there waiting for you. The ultimate zipock baggie. This stuff keeps forever. But it doesn't satisfy your sweet tooth, it doesn't fill you up and the method for getting it used takes work.

What are the results? Less organ fat. Less fat in the legs, the trunk and the arms equals the ability to move better and faster. Then the time comes when you become able to eat even more heartily of your own deep freeze fat. You can now move even harder, work longer, stoke the fires of your own metabolism. Picture it like the scene from Titanic. The workers in the belly of the ship, shoveling coal into the red hot furnaces of the ship to keep the speed up. That's your metabolism. You keep feeding it coal (fat) and keep your muscles working and they use up that coal.

Pretty soon, as you lose the fat, your muscles will still be shoveling and you will need to eat more in addition to what's getting burned up, now is the time to buy the best grade of fuel that you can, no more crap take-out junk. No more empty calories, no artificially created concoctions like soda and partially hydrogenated goop. Consume healthy, whole foods that make every bite count toward keeping your furnace burning. Drink only pure water and lots of it. Keep digesting yourself, rather than storing coal back in the bunkers.

What's your fuel today?