Throughout this book, take off your conventional thinking hat and put on your common
sense hat. You will read a lot of information that you have never heard, or never heard
presented in this way before.
Gaining weight is not an overnight thing. Our bodies weren’t designed to gain weight,
we have forced them into that situation. We aren’t bears that put on huge stores of fat
so we can live through winter hibernation. Weight gain actually stems from us depriving
our bodies. Yep, that’s right. We don’t give our bodies enough of the quality nutrients
that it needs and our body responds by gaining weight. If we consistently eat a diet that
is nutrient deficient, our body responds by lowering our metabolism (generally) so that
when we eat the same amount of calories, less are used, therefore we need less
calories. Our bodies are defending themselves from well---US! If we are using less, but
consuming the same amount, much of that excess will be stored as fat.
Understanding the following point will be invaluable in creating your mindset to be
healthy and lose weight. Our bodies need nutrients. If we are consistently consuming
food that is deprived of nutrients (i.e.. doesn’t have enough) then our body will signal us
to eat more. Here is a metaphor to explain this situation: Your body is like your
household finances. Nutrients are money and eating is the work you do to get the
money. If you need more money what do you do? Work more/eat more. What if that is
still not enough? Then you go get a second job, or a third. This is how your body views
nutrients. It needs more, but is doing the best it can with what you feed it. Our budgets
need a lot of money and our bodies need a lot of nutrients.
Inevitably, if you eat more, you will gain more weight. That’s why you may be hungry all
the time. Your body is hungry, but not for food, it’s hungry for nutrients. Many of us
don’t understand this and so are doomed to over-eating which leads to weight gain.
Nobody wants to work a second job or a third job to get enough money for the bills. The
same can be said for eating. At their core people don’t want to eat 5000 calories per
day.
You may ask how some people eat like crap and stay skinny. Well, first of all, being
skinny doesn’t mean you are healthy. A high metabolism may be a benefit, but it’s not a
cure-all. (21)(2) I’ve read about some scientists researching an enzyme or lack there of
in the digestive system. Some people have the enzyme which encourages fat storage
while some people don’t which means they can burn fat as energy more often. Either
way, that gene has nothing to do with whether or not you get enough nutrients.
Lot’s of skinny people get sick all the time, have diseases or get cancer just the same
as overweight folks. So that’s why I submit we define being unhealthy as, “not getting
enough nutrients.” Everyone is different. As you are reading this, you may feel that you
could lose some extra pounds, or if that’s not a problem, not getting sick and not
worrying about cancer would be nice right?
We’ll get into the nuts and bolts of the nutrients our body needs later on, but for now go
with this: Gaining weight and getting sick is the result of not getting enough of the
nutrients that our body needs to operate and stay healthy. Everyone is different and
therefore will have different specific needs. There are basic needs common to everyone
and this book will give you the knowledge to meet your basic nutrient needs. In
addition, the more you learn about different nutrients the better you can help your body
meet its individual needs. The best medicine is the knowledge of how to recognize your
unique needs and meet them.
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