Weight loss, a rap at a time

‘I eat very little and I am still gaining weight a ton a time.’ If I got paid a cent every time I heard that, I would be in the Bahamas sunbathing for life with better financial security than Bill Gates could ever dream of. 50 cent would wish he had my system.

It is this very statement, at a physiological level that is keeping you fat. Basal metabolic rate responds to your intake, it drops significantly resulting in you being more energy efficient therefore saving all the energy it can muster for storage. Evolution has made sure that during times of less (which in ordinary woman vocabulary is called diet) you use whatever is available to fill your reserves with your best energy storing system and this unfortunately is fat. Gram for gram you produce more energy out of fat than any of the other organic or human tissue available. Every morsel of food that is not used immediately for metabolic engine which unfortunately you have already run down to idle, is stored as fat.

You are defeating the very purpose you claim to be targeting. Ignorance is bliss only in vegetative form. You need to give your body the right GI food at the right rate thus keeping your metabolic rate ticking without the excess caloric load. You need to remove the processed food off your family dining room table. You need to build muscle and you will be on the right track to recovery, not only of the weight sector of your family as whole but health in general. Your energy level, your cancer and chronic disease rate will be slashed. All your body needs is all the drugs in the form of micro nutrients to heal itself. The body immune system is the auto service garage; give it the parts to do the job, food. When rappers found themselves in prison or in gangland, they used it to their benefit. I hope we learn from this irrespective of your possible dislike of rap and stay close. We might discover how they keep fit physically as well. The language is a barrier we should accept, revolting to the extreme but then we have Basotho clans who would out of love call you by your mum's intimate part. We learned to live with them and discovered they had diamonds.

If biochemistry and physiology of beauty and health are the elements of every mix, then results are assured