Why do we eat?

The answer is clear: if we do not have, then we shall die from exhaustion. That's right, we all regularly use the expression "dying of hunger."

But have you ever sit at the table with the thought: "Now I'll be there for one reason - or die"?

In my life there was a case where I seriously feared to die of thirst, but I do not remember a day without food and I suspect that this is true for the vast majority of Westerners, with reasonable except those who deliberately fasting for one reason or another.

Despite the fact that the purpose of food - to avoid starvation, every meal is a kind of intermediate goals: "I used to eat three times a day," or "I like to eat," or "smelled delicious smell," or simply "the food was on the table and I could not resist. "

We eat at one of these reasons, or all at the same time, it is difficult to understand, right? No wonder we gain weight. Imagine if the same confusion occurred when filling the car with petrol:

- Honey, I'm bored, I'm a little nervous, so run to the garage, tucked the old car.

- But you are tucked her half an hour ago!

- I know, I know, but I have only ten minutes.

Or imagine a more ridiculous situation:

- I have a habit: every Sunday morning to fill the tank with a hundred liters. With this petrol I have never ends.

- If the whole week you do not use the machine?

- Anyway zalyu hundred liters. The habit of this. It is not always possible. You see, the tank is designed only one hundred and twenty liters. It's a shame to watch as doroguschy gasoline spills on the ground. Yes, and it is a dangerous occupation. The owner of the garage dissatisfied, other drivers, too, but I'm telling you: I have this habit.

- And what happens if you izraskhoduesh week more than a hundred twenty liters of petrol?

- Then, petrol ends. Because I have and fill the tank up to the top regularly every Sunday!

And now think of these two dialogues. You are absolutely right: not do that even a klutz, and especially being endowed with intellect. With the cars do not appeal, but


That is how we treat your body!


The reason that Mother Nature has given us the ability to eat, a little different from the reasons that guided the vehicle manufacturer. If you do not fill up with petrol and to maintain the level in the tank, it will not go. If we do not eat, we die.

I do not expect that in the future you will go on a diet with this thought. I ask only one thing: to recognize that the sole aim of Mother Nature was to get us to have in order to survive. Fortunately, the process of food enjoyable, and its only purpose - to provide the body with fuel and supplies.

Do you regularly use to run forty liters of gasoline - three times a week, regardless of whether the tank is full or empty? Of course not! If your car consumes about one hundred liters per week, you have probably formed a habit to replenish stocks of gasoline, depending on its consumption.

But if you have a whole week to use the machine, it is unlikely you are uploading stubbornly gasoline into the tank and see how it translates on the ground. This is ridiculous to even think. Yet that is what we are doing when we eat! Most people have a habit to consume a certain amount of food three times a day - regardless of energy expenditure.

I'm trying to prove that the range of our machines is determined not by the amount of gasoline, which we fill in the tanks, and vice versa. We decide how far we want to overcome, and then Stored gasoline to achieve this goal.

This procedure looks quite reasonable, and our body is designed to function exactly the same principle. So eat and wild animals. That is why the protein has ceased to gnaw nuts and began to hide their reserve. And we make the tail wag the dog. We are trying to fill a tank filled to capacity a hundred liters.

Here's the thing: our bodies are not designed for the disposal of surplus. For various reasons which we will discuss below, the human body is unable to process the extra writing. We have to keep it in reserve, it forms beads on the waist and fat throughout the body, we gain weight and get fat.

Perhaps you think that the problem is overeating, but as I said, the true cause of overeating - Improper consumption


Over time, we'll talk about it in detail. In the meantime, let me remind important principle: we use the car according to your wishes and needs. These needs and desires may vary from day to day or every week. No problems arise in this case.

Provided that we can afford to buy gasoline, just as we need to meet the needs of our machines. And do not think about the weight of the car and elimination of exhaust gases. Our only concern - to provide vehicle technical maintenance and supply it with fuel.

Just the same mother nature created our bodies. Wild animals do not need to worry about being overweight or think about how to dispose of the food eaten. In essence, they are facing quite the opposite problem - how to produce enough food. Fortunately, with the latest challenge Western society has long handle.

So, we - two-thirds of the solution. We do not have to rack their brains and calculate your ideal weight. Needless to worry about the pace of fuel combustion and waste disposal.

So you can focus all our attention on a single aspect: Nashe consumption

Consumption and waste

In this book, the term "food" always meant not only food but also drink - except where noted.

Consumption - the number and types of products we consume.

RECYCLING - the rate of calorie burning and elimination of waste.

If the consumption exceeds the regular recycling, we gain weight, and vice versa.

Our goal - to balance the consumption and utilization so our weight did not change throughout life.

You may think that this formula also includes other options - such as endocrine disorders, or metabolic changes. "I eat less than a sparrow, and kilos coming and coming! "- We've all heard many similar phrases, sometimes pronounced them yourself.

But the horrifying photographs taken in Nazi concentration camps, strongly deny these allegations. In my opinion, all these factors are invented to dissipate attention, confusing and justify those who are not able to control food intake.

Do not get me wrong. I do not want to say that there is no endocrine diseases. And I do not think that the rate of metabolism of all people the same. Moreover, I recognize that this speed throughout a person's life can change. I'm just trying to explain that oil is not made of stone and sweet.

Any gardener knows that if the soil to make fertilizers, flowers will grow better. But at the plate, stainless steel garden will not grow. If people do not have enough food - for example, in a camp for prisoners of war or in lean years - they suffer from exhaustion and not overweight.

If your metabolic or endocrine characteristics of the organism is such that you have to eat less food than your neighbor - so be it. But does this mean that you may not eat as much as you want? No, it does not. Do not jump the gun. You would be upset to learn that your neighbor's car consumes gasoline twice as fast as yours? I will not limit you in any way. The choice is yours.

No doubt you have already noticed that the formula "an easy way to lose weight" promises you the desired weight without any special exercises. Most people who call themselves experts in weight management, are of the opinion that successful weight loss without regular exercise impossible.

However, complexes of exercises - another excuse from the category of distractions. Yes, the more you engage in physical activities, the more calories you burn, and thus increase the rate of recycling. But the exercise is hungry and thirsty, and therefore the increase in food consumption. Sloths, snails and turtles are not very agile and active, but also from overweight do not suffer.

Even if consumption and disposal is influenced by such factors as physical activity, the activity of the endocrine system and metabolism, the fact remains the same: if the consumption exceeds utilization, we gain weight, and vice versa. Try to remember it firmly and to focus on core tasks.

Returning to the comparison with the machine. I think only one driver in a thousand knows how much weight his car, if he has not loaded. I do not know that number. But we do not have to know her. When the machine runs out gasoline, we refueled and weight of the machine increases. As the combustion of the fuel weight is gradually reduced, but the main weight of the machine remains unchanged.

Suppose, for some reason, it seemed to own the car you are too heavy. Do you really think that in order to solve the problem you need to drive a car with a single purpose - to burn more fuel not cheap? Only a simpleton is able to take such a decision. But this is how we do, doing exercise to lose weight.

The analogy seemed you failed? And you want to argue that when all the gasoline in the tank is over, the machine stops, while our body will continue to eat the internal reserves and we will begin to lose weight? All true, but not to lose made after the body begins to consume fat reserves, you have to observe a strict fast - or, at least, reduce the amount of food and beverages.

Otherwise wasted fat reserves would soon be restored. After exercise hunger and thirst especially strong. And if the food will be banned for you, you will feel miserable and deprived. You will need to call for help will power and discipline. In fact, you sit on a diet. Maybe even with some success. After you happened in the past to lose weight by dieting. But the gains were short-lived, as


Diets do not help!


And if it helped, you would now have not read this book. But why would so complicate your life, if you can use the "easy way"?

You probably already have the impression that I am against the exercise. Nothing like this. I'm just trying to explain why our base weight of the exercise is not affected. On them will be discussed in detail in the penultimate chapter.

In living beings, like any car, it has its own weight without a load, and if the base weight of the car varies depending on the model, and each species and individuals have their own ideal or standard weight. Why do we clearly see this in the machine, but do not notice in relation to his own body?

Because the machines produce people. We know very well what we need gasoline, and we understand that spend it just like that, without a goal, is very stupid. But the causes of food for us to remain vague.