Mike Carruthers:
Anyone who has been on a diet has likely failed on that diet.
Why? David
Hariton:
People, they have a natural guilt complex. They think the reason
why the diet failed is because they cheated.
David Hariton,
author of the book, Survival
of the Thinnest…
It’s
not because people cheated. It’s because the body is not a passive
piggy bank. People think of their bodies as piggy banks - that
their fat stores equal the excess of the calories they consume
over the calories that they expend. But, it’s just not true.
Their
bodies are active life forces, and their bodies actively maintain
their levels of fat stores just like they actively maintain
everything else. They actively maintain their temperature. They
actively maintain their blood sugars. And, they actively maintain
their fat stores.
David has
a perfect analogy to illustrate his point.
You could
decide that you think it’s not fashionable to be 98.6 degrees.
You’d rather be 96 degrees, and you could walk into a freezer
and stand there until your body temperature actually declined
to 96 degrees. But what’s going to happen as soon as you walk
out of the freezer? Your body temperature is going to come right
back up to 98.6. Why is your experience going to be any the
same if you use a diet to lower your fat stores to an amount
that’s well below what your body wants to maintain them at?
So, I
think what people need to do is they need to start by asking
themselves, “Why does my body want to store this extra fat?”
Tomorrow,
the answer to that question. I’m Mike Carruthers, and that’s
Something You Should Know.
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