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Thanks for the...fat?

  • 21-01-2011 4:39pm
    #1
    neuro-praxis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭


    I just wanted to throw in a positive note here.

    To those of you who are struggling with being overweight (or rather, over-fat), remember that every time your body stored an excess calorie, it was trying to preserve and protect you. Your body was functioning just as it should.

    Now as many of us are re-learning what it means to give our bodies what they need, bear that in mind, rather than berating your body for being a bit flabby. Our bodies naturally strive towards health and balance. Our bodies really are rooting for us.

    I'm extremely thankful for my body and all its self-preserving functions. Happy and nourishing eating today folks. :)


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  • #2
    i-digress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭i-digress


    Thank you! I've a bmi of 32 so have a long way to go to be considered healthy. I'm trying to do it now with healthy eating and exercise. I'm hoping to have a bmi of 25 this time next year, it's nice to see a positive message up here. If I lose a pound a week, I can do it.

    Slow and steady and healthy :)


  • #3
    kildareash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭kildareash


    Haha, I like this way of thinking!
    So it's not my fault that I'm a few stone over weight. It wasn't all those take-aways, processed foods, junk food and alcohol.

    But rather, it was my body functioning as it should!

    What a happy thought to start the weekend on. Thank you neuro-praxis.


  • #4
    neuro-praxis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭neuro-praxis


    kildareash wrote: »
    Haha, I like this way of thinking!
    So it's not my fault that I'm a few stone over weight. It wasn't all those take-aways, processed foods, junk food and alcohol.

    But rather, it was my body functioning as it should!

    What a happy thought to start the weekend on. Thank you neuro-praxis.

    Well...we're definitely responsible for what we eat. But thankfully our bodies are on our side!


  • #5
    Dr_Phil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Dr_Phil


    neuro-praxis wrote: »
    I just wanted to throw in a positive note here.

    To those of you who are struggling with being overweight (or rather, over-fat), remember that every time your body stored an excess calorie, it was trying to preserve and protect you.
    O yeah, thank you fat for hypertension, heart issues, liver problems, kidney failures and many more!


  • #6
    neuro-praxis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭neuro-praxis


    No, not thank you fat. Thank you body, for functioning well, even when it was treated badly.


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  • #7
    Dr_Phil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Dr_Phil


    neuro-praxis wrote: »
    No, not thank you fat. Thank you body, for functioning well, even when it was treated badly.
    Ultimately the result makes people worse and makes their life short, uncomfortable and miserable. So no, thanks for that "protection" and "functioning well". Just my opinion.


  • #8
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    It's a pity when you see someone who strives for a body that is unnattainable or one that cannot be maintained. If you caanot maintain it easily, your body is fighting you! If that means you have to weigh 5lbs more - BIG DEAL!. Listen to your body, it's smarter than you are. If you listen to it naturally and are smart, you will be at a nice healthy comfortable set point


  • #9
    i-digress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭i-digress


    Dr_Phil wrote: »
    O yeah, thank you fat for hypertension, heart issues, liver problems, kidney failures and many more!

    I don't think that's what neuro-praxis is saying. More that our bodies work even when we're fat. And that thinking 'my body is a great machine, what can I do to make it run better' is a healthier and more productive approach than 'my body is awful and I hate it.' I don't think NP was for one minute saying that being overweight was healthy.


  • #10
    rocky
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    Thank you body for being a deterministic system governed by physical laws.


  • #11
    neuro-praxis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭neuro-praxis


    rocky wrote: »
    Thank you body for being a deterministic system governed by physical laws.

    i.e. worth trusting!


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  • #12
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    neuro-praxis wrote: »
    Our bodies naturally strive towards health and balance.
    This is an interesting read about the body trying to find balance
    http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/fat/fat_genetics

    Also this one
    http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/24/us/where-fat-is-problem-heredity-is-the-answer-studies-find.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm
    12 pairs of lean young men, identical twins, to determine to what extent a tendency to gain weight is inherited. The men stayed in a closed section of a dormitory at the university for 120 days. After the first 20 days, they were fed an extra 1,000 calories a day, six days a week, for a total of 84,000 calories over what they were eating before entering the study.

    The twins in the pair gaining the most each added more than 29 pounds, while the ones in the pair gaining the least each put on about nine and a half pounds. The average weight gain for the group as a whole was nearly 18 pounds, Dr. Bouchard said.

    he discovered that the twins who gained the least added more muscle than fat, and those who gained the most added mostly fat and little muscle. He said the men seemed to inherit a tendency to convert extra calories to either muscle or fat for storage in the body. Since it takes nine times as much energy to turn food into muscle as it does to turn it into fat, the twins who put on muscle ended up burning up most of their extra calories.
    I certainly found lifting weights and building muscle help me lose fat quite easily.


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