THE FAT BLOCKER EXERCISE PROGRAM
Debbie is a 42-year-old married mother of 2 who works part-time as a secretary while going to college. Always a bit chubby, even as a girl, she recently found herself about 30 pounds
overweight. “I’m really pretty good about my eating,” she told me. “I watch the fat, I eat small portions and hardly ever have dessert. I’m sure I eat less than any of my friends. So why can’t I lose the weight?” When I asked her about her exercising habits, she said, “When do I have time to exercise? I’m either working, at school, taking care of the kids, or studying. I just can’t seem to fit it into my schedule!”
A basic truth that I’ve discovered after years of treating overweight patients is this: We cannot achieve permanent weight loss without exercise. Every living being exercises to some extent. Even breathing is a form of exercise. And our heart is a muscle that never ceases to work out. However, our bodies are designed to do a great deal more exercise than that. Just as we evolved to consume any food we could lay our hands on, so we also evolved in circumstances where we often had to expend a great burst of energy. Even when energy (i.e., food) is in short supply, it’s worth using up a large store of it to evade a saber-toothed tiger, or to hunt down a buffalo. Those bursts of energy were once essential for our survival. However, once the danger was past or the prey captured, there was no further advantage in using up energy. So, we learned to relax and shut down, our stomachs full, our fat building up for future emergencies. In those prehistoric days, we maintained a sensible balance between energy usage and energy storage.
Today, since there are no tigers to flee from and we can obtain all the food we could possibly want with no more energy than it takes to push a cart through a supermarket, our tendency to store energy (i.e., fat) is far greater than our need to expend it. We are out of balance, and that problem has to be dealt with.
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