Why you will never lose weight while eating grains
78Why You Will NEVER Lose Your Weight While Eating Grains!
Okay, okay, you don’t want to hear that. I know you don’t. I don’t either. The difference is that I know it and I can’t stop eating grains. They are addictive, cause diabetes, overweight, blood sugar spikes, and a myriad other illnesses, but it’s the best kept secret in the world because so much money is invested in the grain industries.
The Fiber in Grain is Not a Reason to Eat Grains
There are a lot of foods out there that are rich in fiber – apples, broccoli, cabbage, watermelon, and any number of green vegetables and fruit. More to the point, though, is that they aren’t predominantly starch. Grains comprise predominantly starch. Starch in the body is converted by Insulin into sugar. And sugar is what spikes your weight and your ill health. For those who insist that the grains must be wholegrain, it really makes no difference. They still contain too much starch. Grains also contain vitamin E and that is another reason people who market grains will tell you to eat it. However, if arsenic contained fiber and vitamin E, would you eat it? The point is that all grains are bad for you because they contain too much starch. And starch makes you fat, fat, fat, and more fat.
This is What the RIGHT Weight Looks Like!
Your Correct Weight
So many people are so overweight these days that even when one is 40 lbs overweight (I am), people will tell you that you aren’t fat. Of course, not. They’re comparing you with the one third of people who are obese. Oh, wait. In South Africa, at my weight, I am technically obese. That means I’m carrying 1/3 of my weight in body fat. So, using a measurement from another country, let’s try and figure out if you are obese. There’s a difference between obese and morbidly obese.
A Women’s Correct Weight
For the first five foot, a woman takes the base weight of 100 lbs. Then for every inch of her height, she adds five pounds. If she has a small bone frame, she subtracts five pounds from the total; and if she has a large bone frame, she adds five pounds to the total. And no woman should ever weight one pound more than that – if she wants to be in good health. Research about a decade ago showed that people should NOT be putting on weight as they grew older. The fact that they put on weight was because they ate too much and did too little exercise.
A Man’s Correct Weight
A man’s base weight should be 110 lbs with five lbs added for every inch of his height. So a six foot man should weigh 170 lbs. Again, subtract five pounds if a small bone frame and add five pounds if a large bone frame.
The Myth of Genes
Humankind’s genes have NOT changed in the last forty years. What has changed is the diet – specially the American and the British diet. What has happened is that grains (because of subsidies and big business) has been touted as healthy. When I grew up, starches were said to be dangerous and we were to avoid them at all costs. One was NEVER supposed to have more than one slice of bread per day (not a sandwich which is two slices). And if one had a potato, it had to be very, very small. Nor did one eat rice and potato on the same dish because they were both starches. In other words, all starches were regarded as to be avoided at all costs.
Guess what – nobody in the nation was overweight.
The bottom line is that humanity was never able to consume that much sugar and/or starch anymore than it was made to consume arsenic, hydrochloric acid, or snake venom. Two thousand years ago, the average person ate two teaspoons of sugar per year.
Coffee and Tea
I learnt something very interesting about two decades ago. For some reason, coffee and tea interfere with weight loss. Try it. Don’t drink coffee and/or tea and, assuming you’re eating a low calorie diet, you will see the pounds just fall off. They come off at a far slower speed if you consume coffee and tea.
Grains are VERY VERY BAD for you
- http://wellnut.com/2010/09/primal-grains-unhealthy/
When we chronically eat grains, we induce a low-level grade of inflammation that is across our entire body (chronic systemic inflammation).
Exercise
If you’re three pounds overweight, yes, exercise will help you to lose those three pounds. If you’re forty pounds, you need to stop eating. It’s physically and scientifically impossible to ‘burn’ off all that weight through exercise. For instance, if your body requires 1200 calories a day (what a 5’6” woman needs), and you’re eating 3500 calories a day (about what the average American eats), you would have to walk for thirty eight hours every day (60 calories per hour) to get rid of the extra 2300 calories. If you could run an eight minute mile, and you ran for an hour, then you would burn 900 calories. You would then need to run eighteen miles every day to counter the extra 2300 calories you are eating. It’s not going to happen. I’ve confronted more than one ‘trainer’ who spoke about weight loss. In the end, they’ve all admitted that only 3% of weight loss is due to exercise. It’s predominantly eating a calorie based diet.
So What Should You be Eating
The best diet in the world is the naturopathic or cavemen diet. It’s the diet that human beings evolved on.
You should be eating meat, green vegetables, fruits, nuts, and you should be drinking water, water, and water. The meat should be grass fed because grain fed animals develop the same illnesses that humans do on grains. In fact, when cows are fed grass, they have the same Omega oil content that fish do.
Why is it DO DIFFICULT
There are several reasons why losing weight is so difficult these days.
1. Nobody has the time to cook properly because people are being worked and stressed to death. It’s no accident that the thin people are wealthy. They have time to look after themselves and eat properly. It takes time and money to both prepare and buy healthy foods.
2. People are completely misled by advertising and the Food Pyramid. Grains should not be the main food. It should be completely eliminated from the food pyramid. The fact that it’s there is testament to the power of Corporate Money. People are eating grains because they think they are healthy. In reality, sugars and starches stimulate the appetite so that one never feels full. Insulin stimulates cravings.
3. There is a culture of entitlement and expectation that completely destroys common sense and rationality. It’s not possible to be supermom. It’s not possible to be a career woman, a glamorous lover, and a perfect mother. Something has got to give. All too often, the thing that gives is the time to look after oneself, to weigh oneself daily on a scale, and to have time to center oneself and understand what is important and what is not. When one feels entitled to having the same glory that others do, and when one expects to have fun rather than live a disciplined life, weight gain creeps up slowly and inexorably.
The OBESITY EPIDEMIC is terrible
I have no idea how one is going to get everybody back to a normal size, but I do know that it’s vitally important. Instead of having coffee shops, they should be having soup shops. Instead of having pizza huts, there should be veggie stews. Instead of there being soda pop and chocolate mousse, there should be fruit and nuts. Unhappily, in a busy day, it’s all but impossible to get low calorie, healthy food. Incidentally, fruit on its own is not that hot. Veggies and meat are the best staples.
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I admit I've been a "whole grain" kind of guy in recent years. Whether cereal, bread or whatever - if the package had whole grains or wheat - I bought it. I guess I bought into the advertising as well. I only have about 5 pounds to drop according to your weight formula so I'll watch the grains and see what happens. Cool article. Thanks!
Very interesting, motivating, and true. I certainly agree about the soups and stews replace standard fast foods. I hope that many people meet success in their weight loss journeys.
There is more than a grain of sense in this. I do love my bread and cheese, though! I had a bad fall two days ago and got pretty banged up - due to being about 60 pounds overweight. So I'm up for some positive reinforcement.
One thing that was innacurate was the distance or time you need to walk on a normal diet and loose. It is between 8 and 12 miles per day at a decent clip. I know this for a fact, as regards my self at least. But few have the time or willingness to march for 3 or 4 hours every day
Bob Useful article
Bob, it doesn't matter how far you walk if you eat the equivalent in calories! Now if only I could follow my own advice!
Naima, well, I'm hoping I have the discipline to do this. I know it works because whenever I've lived like this, all health problems have disappeared and I have become amazingly healthy. Mike, you're doing well!
Seems we have many been mislead. Great work.
Sophia: I told you that it worked for me. It DOES make a difference how far and often you walk and you do not have to diet at all. I walked 12 miles per day (regimented) for nine months in 1988 and went from 250 to 184 pounds. Honestly. And I was eating three full meals a day. It might not work for everyone, but I know others with similar experiences.
Don't be so dogmatic.
Bob
Bob:
"Many people believe that exercise is a good way to lose weight. This is not so."
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/exercise.
"An increasing body of research reveals that exercise does next to nothing for you when it comes to losing weight." "More and more research in both the UK and the US is emerging to show that exercise has a negligible impact on weight loss."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19
Bob, I could go on quoting many scientific studies for you, but I'll leave it at two.
Losing weight has to do with eating the right type of food and fewer calories.
I don't mean to be dogmatic. You said I was inaccurate.
Bob, normal walking burns 60 calories per hour. Yes, some people walk 5 miles in an hour and other people walk 1 mile in an hour, in which they burn more calories. It also depends what your body weight is and how one's metabolism works. I was using an example. If you'd like to give me a better example, please do. But please don't tell me my principle is wrong when I spent an hour or two researching for this article. I was simply showing that exercise is not the main way of losing weight. Cutting down one's calories is. And that is increasingly backed by scientific study. Also men tend to lose weight from exercise more easily than women, and it depends on whether the exercise compensates for the amount of calories eaten or not.
Six years ago I changed what I ate and how I ate just for health. I didn't even KNOW I had weight to lose and lost 15 pounds between August and Thanksgiving. In the past six years I have added nearly daily exercise and have lost - only 5 more.
Mike, that's interesting.
I merely stated what I did. And I swear to it.
"Dogmatic,?" I wrote "pragmatic," must be the spellcheck.
have a lovely day
Cowardly Bob
Sophia: It's a nonsense to say exercise won't help you loose weight...of course it does. I agree you need a diet, too, if you are obese. But NO reputable scientist would state that exercise doesn't help loose weight!
Bob
(Your grain theories are the most compelling)
Bob, I didn't say that exercise wouldn't help you lose weight. I said that it was scientifically acknowledged that it was only 3%of the weight loss equation, and I gave you links above that indicate that the exercise part is not the part that contributes most to weight loss. In South Africa, when I grew up, we were actively told not to start exercising until we had lost the weight, otherwise we would turn the fat into muscle, and that would be very difficult to lose. Exercising makes you healthy!
Cowardly Bob. :) Now you made me laugh! :)
I think it's a wise decision to limit your grain intake because it's often the grain in processed foods (like breads, cereals, pastas) etc. that make you pack on the pounds. However, eliminating an entire food group from your diet is going to force you to compensate through a replacement means. This might be an interesting subject to address in the future.
Barsdorf, our ancestors, until 10,000 years ago, never ate grains. When humankind started farming, they developed arthritis. Paleontologists will tell you that until the advent of grain, human skeletons did not have arthritis. Grains are too acidic.
Foods rich in sucrose are the culprit...and they are addicting...so the problem is how to get rid of the Food addiction? this is a very interesting hub Sophia...and I'm glad to have read this, I was once a borderline obese but I lost 19 lbs in six months because i got rid of rice in my diet somehow and whit flour as well...
raciniwa - any food that needs insulin to break it down is the culprit - that includes all the sugars and all the starches!
Sophia I totally agree with you. I lost a huge amount of weight in a relatively short time on the Atkins diet which is very similar to what you suggest here - all wholesome food - meats, fish, poultry, vegetables and fruit and drinking loads of water. Caffeine-free tea and coffee is fine as caffeine stimulates the body to produce insulin. All processed foods and grains were out, as well as sweet things. I felt fabulous on it too, my arthritis cleared up completely until I returned to my normal diet. I think I'll drop grains again. Bread and potatoes are my downfall - pity they are the cheapest to buy here!
Izzy, and thereby hangs the tale. Grains are cheap. Today, once more, I tried to get myself to eat that way. Coffee is my downfall as I need the stimulation. I bought a pile of lamb chops, though! :) It's a start. :)
Well done! Pass the mint sauce lol
Chicken is usually cheap too, but cheap ground beef is usually mixed with grains to stretch it. You really do need to have money to afford a healthy diet these days. Sometime all I eat is sandwich all day, but still get fatter and fatter because of the grains.
Well, it has to be done. One thing I do is make Jewish chicken soup. It makes the Chicken last for a good two or three days so it works out very inexpensive. It's one whole chicken with the giblets (fat removed), two bunches of carrots, clove of garlic chopped, 2 bay leaves, sea salt, one potato sliced, two large onions chopped, and sea salt. Cook for three hours and the bones are about dissolve as does everything else. Then divide into two or three sections, and put about half the water in again, and you have enough for the entire day. Very cheap. Very healthy!
Perspycacious Level 7 Commenter 3 months ago
There are veggie eaters, meat devourers, and fruit poppers, but you won't get rid of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and such. They're too ingrained. Get rid of granulated and dissolved sugars first, and watch the love handles shrinking.