Guest Article by Mike Starks, CEO of The Meal Movement
How To Experience Weight Loss this Thanksgiving
Gosh I love Thanksgiving. Football, Family, Food, Friends, More Football.
As some of you know, I despise sugar. Not necessarily ‘IT’, but what ‘IT’ does to me. What it makes me feel like after I eat it. I feel tired, groggy, lazy, blah. Then I sleep for about 10 hours and wake up with a sugar hangover. Younger folks don’t understand this but in due time they will.
If you plan on eating a lot of sugar, sweets, processed starches, rolls, etc. during the holidays, I advise against it because it will set you back for 1-2 weeks on your fat burning schedule. Don’t believe that by going to the gym you can simply ‘burn’ off the stuff you have eaten. We have fallen for this myth for 30 years and it simply ‘ain’t’ working. I would like to share with you a true story which occurred in North Carolina years ago. Maybe this will show you the power of sugar.
A Bear’s Weight Loss Lesson
Several years ago, North Carolina decided to ban sugar as bear bait. Hunters would take large giant sugar blocks about 12” square and bolt it down with a chain. Bears from around would come and lick, eat, the sugar. Then a strange discovery occurred, hunters would find bears laying around sleepy, tired and groggy. The hunters would walk up to the bears and the bears did nothing but look at them then roll over. (This is what you call shooting fish in a barrel). The hunters thought this was just too easy, but what they discovered was the bear’s teeth were rotted out. Some of the bears had formed cancerous tumors like the hunters had never seen before. It was so bad, the North Carolina Dept of wildlife decided that hunters could no longer use sugar blocks as bear bait because they were afraid of the long term effects on the bear population and the offspring.
The Accidental Discovery of Disease & Fat Gain…
Weston Price was a children’s dentist who ended up doing missionary work around the country. He passed away in 1948 and will likely never be well known among the US public of today. Dr Price began traveling around 1900 to the remote parts of the planet. He began logging his journey’s and amazing discoveries over the course of several worldwide trips. His findings were astonishing to say the least. Before I share them with you, think about this… he did not seek fortune or fame. He did not see a TV show or book deal. He did not care what others thought about his findings…he had nothing to prove or no one to prove wrong. He simply noted what he observed and learned over the years. Here’s what he found (in my summarized version)….
Tribes, cultures, etc. in the most remote parts of the earth were often extremely healthy, lean, active and often had beautiful teeth and very little disease like cancer, diabetes, etc.
Then there were tribes, cultures, etc who lived near larger groups of organized civilization who were very unhealthy, overweight, tired, rotted out teeth and a variety of diseases.
Now mind you, we are not talking about 1 tribe or 2, we are talking about hundreds of tribes unrelated to one another. The common eating practices among the healthy tribes were amazingly similar. The unhealthy tribes eating habits were also very similar. (*Now, I know I am going to get hate mail for what I am about to write, but please don’t kill the messenger, I am simply reporting what Dr Price discovered…(and yes, I do agree with it!))
#1: The most popular common foods consumed in abundance among healthy tribes:
meats (red meat, fish, fowl and other wildlife) including meat fat (yes even the saturated fat), vegetables, insects & roots.
#2: The most popular common foods consumed in abundance among unhealthy tribes:
grains, fruits, dairy.
Now, I am not saying to go out and eat your dog then chase it down with a cockroach. No. But what I am saying is that you need to understand which foods actually hurt you and which foods actually help you.
Type 1 Diabetics are the True Food Experts
In my opinion, the best food experts in the world are type 1 diabetics (type 1 is juvenile diabetes…ie, you acquire it when you are young. Type 2 is often the result of simply eating too many sugars and starches and generally occurs around age 40-50). Type 1 diabetics avoid sugar, most grains and fruits and a lot of dairy because their lives depend on it. If they eat too much and no insulin is around, they likely die. Here’s an interesting phenomenon, obesity in type 1 (not type 2) is extremely rare. The overweight population of type 1 (not type 2) diabetics is also extremely rare.
Now let’s look at type 2, about 90% of type 2 diabetics are either overweight or obese. Not all but most.
So let’s look at this picture and then I will hush and let you get back to dreaming about your favorite pie next week (but don’t say I didn’t warn you!).
Type 1 Diabetics – 5-10% Overweight population; avoid sugar and simple starches; eat meats & vegetables
Type 2 Diabetics – 90% overweight population; often eat sugar and simple starches, some meats & vegetables (after their endocrinologist has instructed them to!)
The picture is clear isn’t it?
Next week at thanksgiving, I want to challenge all of you. Stuff your face with Meats, Vegetables, Salads, Deviled Eggs but avoid dessert. Eat so much you can’t see straight. Then after dessert, observe everyone else who ate all the sugar and simple starch products. It’s like being the only sober person in a bar at 2 am. You will be amazed at how lethargic everyone else is.
Meats, Vegetables & eggs. That’s the Meal Movement way. We just make it easy and affordable.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Great Taste, Small Waist!™
The Meal Movement
Mike Starks
CEO
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Christmas is a busy time of year for everyone. It’s not any different in my house. Family, friends, and extra fun work activities like the Jingle Bell Run have put me on the run, literally.
As a bonus, Super Star Client Hester sent in this recipe. It is incredible!
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