This is the way

The wrong way to lose fat — an excerpt from my upcoming pdf:

CICO (calories in calories out) mindset by itself is retarded.
Calories matter only in context of metabolism. It decides whether your food becomes energy or fat.
A “fast metabolism” can come from two completely different drivers:
- Proper thyroid function (the good kind)
- Chronic stress (the degenerative kind)

Under-eating triggers the stress response; your thyroid signals your body to shift into survival mode:
- Cortisol and adrenaline rise
- Thyroid function drops
- Protective hormones like testosterone drop
- Stress hormones including estrogen further rise
- Metabolism turns catabolic, eating lean muscle to survive
- As muscles are metabolically stimulating, the loss in muscle tissue will further slow down metabolism
- A downward spiral of entropy entails…

Congrats, now you can eat even less.
The result is the typical skinny fat physique and pancake ass.

Sugar is stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver. When glycogen runs low, your body will break down muscle to keep blood sugar steady. Detoxification depends on a healthy liver and your liver needs two things which are sugar (glucose) and proper thyroid function.
Rather than sugar being “addictive”, it’s essential. You can hold your breath longer than your brain can go without sugar.

“But muh keto!”

Using fat as primary fuel is a stress adaptation, not a sign of health.
Your body can use fat for fuel but that doesnt mean it should:
- Ketones are made during starvation, not thriving
- Keto mimics famine; in ketosis cortisol rises to maintain blood sugar since there is no glycogen
- Burning fat increases lipolysis which releases PUFA into the blood increasing oxidative stress and suppressing thyroid function

While a ketogenic diet can serve some purposes short term, it is inherently a stress adaptation. Survival mode. Running on fat is like running a car on old motor oil, you can do it, but the engine wears out faster. If you experience cold hands, insomnia, mood swings, losing hair etc. there’s a good chance you’re crashing your metabolism instead of burning just fat.

Severely restricting calories and sugar will eventually lead to chronic stress, thyroid suppression and a slower metabolism. Eventually you gain fat eating less. The classic yo-yo spiral. I am calling it fat-gain instead of weight-gain. Because weight-gain would be a good thing in the context of gaining muscle.

The bottom line is that it’s not just about eating less and exercising more, nor calories in calories out. It’s about nourishing your body with what it needs to function so that it can maintain and even evolve its current structure — Fat loss as a side effect of vitality.

Putting week 3 & 4 together and moving it to the weekend instead of Tuesdays. I also don’t want it to be just a vlog, it should have valuable info in it that you don’t hear elsewhere.

Sorry guys, little break. I think I’ve peated too hard

Spring cleanse for renewed Vitality:

Focus and energy are similar to function and structure; they are bound together.

Even with an abundance of physiological energy you still need to direct that energy, the choices you make and your focus, in order to go in the right direction.

You understand that when your focus is spread too thin among too many things it causes energy leaks. It doesn’t matter how much energy you have, we only have so many hours in a day. So many days in a life.

In an ideal world we get to choose our own stressors. In an ideal world…

Some of your suboptimal routines and habits might’ve become so ingrained that it can feel like a sacrifice to change them, but remember, you are sacrificing the lower to the higher. You will open up space within you and have more www.tg-me.com/energy left for what really matters.

I recommend doing an internal spring cleanse of the spirit:

1. Who do you want to become?
Determine where you want to go. Be clear about this. Who are you really? What does he stand for? How does he act?

2. Who do you absolutely not want to become?
Determine the things in your life that don’t match your higher self. The things holding you back.
Now be thankful for the insights gained from those past experiences and make a plan to change the things that don’t match the higher you.

3. Act like your higher self.
All the day-dreaming in the world won’t amount to a single thing without the actions to comport. Act as if, and you will become—but be truthful about this (paradoxical).

Redirect the newfound time and energy to what is important to you and align your inner vision of who you will become with your actions.

Took a 40 degree fever to make me remember this but it’s not mandatory.

You know those gallbladder flushes and liver cleanses with a bunch of gallstones coming out? It seems those aren’t actually gallstones.

Turns out it’s basically saponified bile, olive oil and lemon juice, making little soap balls to then pass per rectum:

Microscopic examination of our patient's stones revealed that they lacked any crystalline structure, melted to an oily green liquid after 10 min at 40°C, and contained no cholesterol, bilirubin, or calcium by established wet chemical methods. Traditional faecal fat extraction techniques indicated that the stones contained fatty acids that required acid hydrolysis to give free fatty acids before extraction into ether. These fatty acids accounted for 75% of the original material.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673605663738/fulltext

In essence, your cells primarily run on glucose (SUGAR), oxygen, and water.

Secondarily, they require minerals/ions, carbon dioxide (CO2), heat, and light to utilize the glucose, oxygen, and water.

Tertiarily, many other building blocks come into play like cholesterol, amino acids, vitamins and other structural fats to maintain, repair, and tune the cell’s function.

The thyroid gland, liver, heart, brain, kidneys etc. are basically like an orchestra that perform and regulate this fundamental energy flow of your body.

And if the body is the orchestra, the thyroid sits on top as the conductor; it controls the rate at which glucose and oxygen are burned (metabolic rate).

Now you can see how important it is to have adequate thyroid function.

Chronic stress, PUFA, Nutrient deficiencies, toxins, leaky gut, sleep deprivation, low-carb and low-calorie diets are all things that can lower thyroid function.

Anything that disrupts energy production, nutrient availability or hormonal balance can lead to hypothyroid symptoms.

I hope today’s class wasn’t too dull. This is the most condensed explanation of the physiological foundations of bioenergetics I could come up with.

It’s fundamental to your wellbeing and will be common knowledge after the pre-peaty era.

I’ve never been super strong at benching but since starting the easy peaty quest I’ve upped my bench by 30% while losing fat…

At this rate I’ll finally bench 3 plates for 5 by summer.

A playful energy, sufficient energy, can make for a completely different experience and outcome.

Simply put; it's best to do things willingly in a pleasant manner so that they are sustainable.