There are rich people and poor people, and people who move up and down between these two poles. Similarly, there are people rich in energy and vitality and people who struggle to move, who lack the energy to fully enjoy life. Which of these extreme cases you feel closer to, on a regular basis?
What would you give in exchange of multiplying your energy by a factor 10? How would your life be? What would you be able to accomplish, to enjoy, to feel with this energy?
It is so simple and rewarding and yet, so few people make a decision and a commitment to enjoy so much energy.
If you are committed to change whatever it takes to live in health and have plenty of energy to enjoy life at a higher level, you may find what follows useful.
If you are just curious about the post, I suggest that you rather spend your time doing something that really matters for you. You are always welcome to come back when you commit yourself to make a positive change in your life.
Most of the food we can currently buy are flooded with carbohydrates: bread, pasta, pizza, flours, potatoes,... and for many time it has been advertised that carbos are the preferred way to get energy, to be healthy and in a good shape. However, devoting some time to research on people that excel in energy and vitality will give you a completely different insight:
- They eat more veggies and salads, and less meat, fish, eggs and other protein sources
- They care about a balance in meals, and use creative combinations to enjoy their meals
- They keep the intake of carbos to a minimum, and increase the intake of healthy fats, i.e. seed oils, nuts, fish oils supplements among others
(sugar, aspartame, ... there is a long list here...)
Sugar is added in many production processes as a food conserver and a flavoring. It is also one of the main ingredients in sweets, chocolate, desserts, ice-cream, and even bread. It is added to many commercial sauces, sodas, juices, and other beverages. And, on top of that, a culture has been created to "make our life sweeter" by indulging in added sugar to many recipes.
It has been demonstrated that sugar consumption is one of the main factors in developing diabetes and it is suspected to be an important factor in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In fact, what happens when you give some candies to child? It gets completely hyperactive and, after a shorter or longer period, depending on the amount of sweets, it gets down in energy. Of course, it will immediately ask us for more sweets. Where I wrote sweets and candies, you can also read bread, rice, potatoes, chips... a long list of carbos.
The truth is, when we favor carbos and intake sugar in our diet, we are adapting our metabolism to work on that fuel and we become completely dependent. It would be fine if the carbos were able to give us all the energy we need in a day and we were able to store them in our body, but this is not the case.
In order to store the carbos, our body transform them into fat. And then, since we keep eating carbos, our body is not promoted to use the fat, so we grow fat and we lack the energy we need. In order to burn the fat we need to eat fat and remove the carbos from our diet. Only then the metabolism is activated to swich into a fat burning mode. Just one more thing: fat has several advantages as fuel:
- It has more energy than carbos
- We have a much larger storage capacity and we can keep running on fat for days even without eating!
- Burning fat make us happier in many ways: we keep in good shape and emotionally by releasing endorphins
- Combining eating more healthy fats with exercise is spectacular, since the metabolism changes dramatically, the endorphins levels rise and keep high the whole day, enabling us to achieve higher goals and live more fulfilled at the same time
If you take the challenge, send me a comment sharing your experience and learning from these 2 weeks period!
I look forward to reading you!
