Now that I caught your attention with that offensive subject line, let me tell you this article is not about humiliating or poking fun of anybody's weight or appearance. Whatever I'm writing shall not be applicable to those suffering from any medical condition or those who are facing weight issues despite trying hard. I wish you the best in your journey and let's hope you progress well.
This is for all those 'woke' and 'body-positivity' clique who wear their obesity on their sleeve and believe that is normal, something to be proud of and to those who say they aren't ashamed of their over weight. And this is also for those naïve people who do not understand the gravity of what their bulging tummy can pose for them.
For those who have seen me personally and felt I looked fit, actually my body fat percentage is close to 20%. Anybody with body-fat more than 25% are considered obese and I am not too far from that. So it goes without saying that if I do not care about my lifestyle and eating habits for sometime, I end up in obesity category and my risk of dying through heart diseases, cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure increases by 30% over other fit people.
Time for you to retrospect if you fall over 25% body-fat and if yes that means your bulging tummy is a ticking time bomb and no body positivity would come to your rescue. By the way do you have a family to support and kids to raise ?
Everybody knows that the two major ways of cutting down body fat is by lifting weights and by reducing intake of bad foods (white salt, white sugar, white rice, white flour - all white witches). Should we avoid all these foods for good ? Our life is all about biryanis, sweets, deep-fried savories and hence we can't get rid of those completely. But the bigger question is...should we have all these thrice a day or even better question, should we have any food thrice a day, everyday ?
Did you wonder how to handle hunger because you feel hungry every few hours ? The joke is on you because hunger is a feeling triggered not by lack of food but by your brain which tricks you to eat. If you fast for long, brain would divert itself to tap your belly fat for energy but we usually don't let that happen and keep satisfying our hunger pangs.
I made a one hour video about bio-chemistry and what happens within the cells of your body when we eat and what happens when we do not eat. But my wife reprimanded from sharing that online as it was a bit too preachy and I gave up.
Anyway, if you thought body fat only castes heart diseases, let me give you more possibly consequences: Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, blindness. Cancer is aggravated by presence of high body sugars. We wonder why our grandparents suffered from health related diseases as they grew old. Unfortunately, they were not told how to lead a healthy lifestyle as their entire diet was full of white witches.
But at least they had an active lifestyle. And lets compare theirs with our sedentary lifestyles sitting in front of computers for 8 hours, another 4 hours in front of TVs. We could die much earlier and I won't make it politically correct. Do you hear about those young men in 30's and 40's dying of cardiac arrests or are you in your own dangerous bubble ?
'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day' is the shit advertised by cereal companies. Do they care about your well-being ? Hahaha. To my surprise, doctors told my diabetic family members that they should not fast because the diabetic medicines would reduce body sugar levels and hence they should eat 'well' to increase their body sugars so that medicines can do their job. They do not want the sugar levels to be reduced naturally by fasting.
If you lose your weight and get healthy, the corporates lose their money, healthcare industry crumbles, pharma companies lose and none of them encourage limited eating. We live in a world of consumerism and hence we need to back one another. Read about 'autophagy', 'ketones' and how prolonged fasting before lifting weights will make you stronger, sharper and how eating diminishes the results. But we were conventionally told that eating makes us stronger and healthier. Nothing can be a bigger scam.
I personally follow 'one meal a day' on all weekdays and my detractors ask me if that's healthy and nutritious at all ? I am amused at that question because I do not understand if we need to eat thrice a day to get those milligrams of vitamins, minerals, carbs and protein our body needs (assuming they all eat only nutritious food every time). Won't I get that nutrition from one healthy lunch ? Weren't early humans made to hunt and eat once in two or three days ? Don't lions and tigers eat once in three days now ? None of the animal species eat thrice a day and humans are made the same way too. We just eat way more than what our bodies need and hence all the extra food would be stored as belly fat for future energy spending which we don't spend anyway.
We just can't stop ourselves from eating 'tasty food' because we let our brain and hormones like dopamine control us. Not controlling intake of food is as addictive as smoking, drinking or doing drugs. More dangerous actually as we do it thrice a day.
Few people eat healthy and few others who can't control their mouth burn the calories in gym through weight training. If you don't do either or if you talk about body-positivity to hide your insecurities, let me touch your raw nerve by saying you lack discipline of controlled-eating, and you are lazy enough to hit the gym.
If you are fat and if your clothes don't fit it, if you are not motivated to groom well, yet you lack self-discipline, you are a bad example and influence on your kids because they learn this very lazy lifestyle and habits from you. You are not only ruining your life but also people around you. And you don't need anybody else to body shame you, because you are your own enemy and you will see your life crumbling in front of your own eyes. I repeat - your fat body is a ticking timebomb and it will catch you up sooner or later. Deal with it.
