Food for thought?

Gunner · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: Food for thought?

Cut and Pasted from somewhere else, but so very, very true!!!!!!!

Hey, Fatty. Yeah, You.

Are you fat? I bet you are. Chubby, porky, rotund, chunky, heavy, corpulent, powerlifter... whatever you want to call it, you're very likely carrying around some extra, life-shortening chub.

What's that? You're just in a mass phase? Listen, buddy, if you haven't been able to see your penis in three years because of your big gut, the "bulking stage" is over, okay?

I'm not being rude here; I'm just stating the facts. According to the CDC, 66.3% of the American population is either overweight or flat-out obese. Odds are, you're one of them. Yes, even if you train with weights. Because no matter how hard most people train, they'll never be able to out-train a poor diet.

Look around your gym: lots of people training regularly, very few with visible abs. Or maybe you don't need to look around in the gym. Maybe you can see the same phenomenon in the mirror.

Not happy with your physique even though you push iron several days a week? Well, it was true when I first wrote it in the year 2000 and it's still true today:

It's your diet, stupid!

The difference is mainly diet.

Why You're Fat

Now, since most Americans are fat and unhealthy, let's take a quick look at what they did to get that way. First, the mind-numbingly obvious: they ate too much and didn't exercise enough. No shit. How about we get more specific?

Problem #1 -- Late Day Binging

Most fat people overeat at night. They don't just overeat, they binge. Then, with that gigantic glut of calories in their bellies, they go to bed -- in a nutshell causing those calories to be stored as body fat instead of being used to fuel activity.

And get this, binge eating -- consuming an enormous amount of calories in one sitting -- is now considered to be the number one eating disorder in America, more prevalent than even anorexia, bulimia or that God-awful Tubway Diet. Scary, huh?

Problem #2 -- Skipping Breakfast

People usually overeat at night because they skip breakfast and don't eat frequently enough during the day. They claim to be too busy, too rushed, and too overworked to take the time out to eat. Well, studies show that people who skip breakfast also compensate later in the day by overeating. So as strange as it may seem, not eating a meal can lead to fat gain.

Breakfast skippers are fatties not only because they overcompensate at night, but also because they're damaging their metabolism on a daily basis. Basically, the body can begin to cannibalize muscle tissue during the night.

Since muscle is the primary determiner of your metabolic rate, skipping breakfast and staying in that muscle-wasting state until lunch leads to metabolism damage and fat gain... and usually a nice lunchtime binge and subsequent afternoon energy crash as well.

The Solution

Successful people often look at unsuccessful people and do the opposite. If you want to lose fat and look good naked, then you need to do the opposite of what fat people do. In this context, that means:

1. Eating breakfast to prevent late-day overeating and end the metabolism wrecking effects of the eight-hour fast we call sleep.

2. Squashing the habit of nighttime overeating.

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