My theory on weight loss
I have been trying to slim down a little lately. I am going for the lean, hungry look. The problem is that my appetite usually gets the better of me. While my brain is busy counting calories and gauging the nutritional benefit of each meal, my empty stomach usually succumbs to the siren call of the worst possible food item available. I am so hungry at meals I can't think straight long enough to figure out what to eat. Obviously this is a problem. While eating my most recent meal, I got to thinking about how God engineered the human body. The human body was built to withstand extreme privation. Even now the majority of the world does not live in the abundance found in a typical American household. WIth privation in mind, the foods that would sustain the body for the longest time for the least amount of effort are the most desirable for survival. The foods that deliver the most calories for the least amount of effort are fats, sugars, and to a lesser degree carbohydrates. Naturally, these foods are what our body craves of us. In a survival situation, when every meal is won by sweat and blood and food is chosen with maximum calorie return in mind, eating a juicy steak, baked potatoes, salad with ranch dressing, iced tea, corn on the cob, baked rolls, and a hot apple pie with ice cream for dessert is a wise choice. (Assuming you could find such a meal.) The natural God-mandated tendency is that human beings (and animals) should gorge themselves when they are hungry. This is a problem when you are trying to lose weight since most diets rely on cutting down portions and eating less. Humans are hunter-gatherers by nature and the easy aboundance we have now has perverted us. Our bodies are designed to eat continuously, when you wait too long in between meals the body's natural mechanisms go haywire and demand that the brain allow the body to indulge. You can never allow yourself to get hungry.
Now, if you eat continuously, it cannot be junk. Eating ice cream and potato chips on a 24/7 basis would result in a physique similar to that of the Blob character from Marvel Comics' X-Men comic book. So that said, hopefully tomorrow I am going to snack a lot. The problem will be keeping food handy.
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