Risking their lives?
How so? It’s just fat cells
right?
Wrong.
When your body starts hoarding the fat, it creates the fat
cells like little receptacles and begins filling them up. Yes, they fill up with the fatty material we
stockpile for future energy needs. But,
they also stockpile other things. All
the toxins in your body that your liver can’t eliminate end up stored in your
fat cells with the fat. The more toxins you
have taken in, the more poison it is that ends up there. Toxins can be directly put in your body, like
nicotine. Toxins can be created or occur
as byproducts of things you put in your body, like the saturated fat,
cholesterol, and arachidonic acid you will have after a diet heavy in meat and
dairy products. Toxins are everywhere in
our food, especially in the growth chemicals for natural foods and the artificial
sweeteners in manufactured foods. Most carcinogens
we are exposed to in our environment or ingest (cancer causing, by the way),
end up stored in the fat cells.
So, along with the fat we are hoarding (for which it could
irrationally be argued that there is some disastrous dyer future need), we are
also piling up toxins and wastes that sit it our bodies just waiting to poison
us and cause long term medical issues.
The fat alone is bad enough. The
presence of all the fat cells, in addition to the severely bad habits around
eating and the constant barrage of our digestive and metabolic systems, is
crippling our bodies. But, while we
fight the effects of the excess fat cells, we leave our bodies dangerously
exposed to the harmful effects of all the toxins being piled up in the fat cells.
If there was ever a good reason to improve your diet and to
lose the fat, this is it.
When you are obese, and I know this from personal
experience, the first week or so that you begin a weight loss program, you feel
strange. It is not uncommon for there to
be feelings of general malaise or even actual illness to occur. When you stop taking in the excess calories,
and if you also complement that with exercise, your body begins the process of
glucogenesis and begins to convert the materials in your fat cells into energy
for the body. As your body processes the
fatty materials, it also has to process the toxins in your fat cells. That can make you feel ill. It was fine when the junk was just sitting
idle in your fat cells (like old asbestos in a building) slowly poisoning you,
but now that you have disturbed it, like asbestos, there are the toxic effects
of the dust as you remove it. Your body
is left to deal with the residual effects of ridding it of the toxic junk you
have been hoarding.
Many people who begin a diet, at this point, say, “I feel
like crap. I can’t do this. This diet is not right for me.” They couldn’t be more wrong. If you are feeling this way the first week,
you are successfully ridding your body of waste. Over time, your body actually gets used to
this process of reverse engineering your fat cells and it becomes better at
processing the toxins in the fat. The
human body has an amazing capacity to adapt to processes, both good and bad.
You have to go through this if you are going from severely
overweight back to healthy. You have to
experience the feelings that go with ridding yourself of the toxins. You could quit. The net result to that decision is leaving
the toxic time bomb sitting in your system just waiting to cause illnesses like
cancer and dysfunction of your system (bringing on functional problems like
high cholesterol, high blood pressure, nervous system disorders, etc.).
So, as I was saying, when you are considering the benefits
of losing weight, nothing compares to this one.
If you are storing fat in large amounts, you are storing toxic
byproducts of your environment as well.
Think about this very carefully. Many who tell you that losing weight is
important will tell you that you need to do it to (a) lower your cholesterol
and blood pressure, (b) help physical structure damage caused by muscle and
back issues associated with the extra mass, or (c) look better and more
attractive.
The best reason that I can think of is that, for your own
long term health, you need to do it because you are carrying around every toxic
byproduct you ever came into contact with in your own fat cells. As it sits there, it slowly and efficiently
invades your body and poisons it.
Is that a good reason for you to consider fitness? I am betting that it is.
Think about it, enjoy your day, and plan your next round of
exercise!
THE WORKOUT:
The workout last night was Cardio Plyometric Circuit. I did AbRipper X before starting it, but as I
got into the warmups, I was tighter than usual.
That’s when I started thinking about my day. Very little hydration…in fact, I hadn’t had
as much as a bottle of water all day.
Great time for that to occur to me.
I did the routine, of course. I
felt it though. The calves and thighs
were a little tighter. The second circuit
(Basketball jumps, Level 1 Pushups and Runs, Ski Abs, and In/Outs) was
brutal. I got through it, but I had to
pause here and there. I always know when
it’s due to poor hydration because I am not tired from all the cardio, my
muscles are sore from the exercise.
In order to get the most out of your cardio, the muscles
have to be totally ready for the journey.
Mine weren’t last night, but I made a mental note for the future. Insanity is the toughest thing I have done so
far when it comes to nutritional and dietary discipline. When you deviate, it shows up in spades in
your routine.
Another thing, in Cardio Plyo…what’s up with Shaun T cutting
short (or cutting out!) some of the stretches.
I know he thinks they are very “im-paw-tint” so, what the heck? Just an observation.
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