Lifestyle

One of the most important factors in losing weight is to have a healthy lifestyle.
If you have been trying many times to lose weight but just haven’t had any luck, it is due to two major factors:

1) Your current lifestyle is causing you to be overweight. In order to lose weight in a healthy way we are going to completely change your lifestyle into a healthier one.
2) Your genes (DNA/Hereditary information) predispose your to a larger body size.

To lose weight we can’t change your genetic information, but we can change your lifestyle into a healthier one. Now if you have been overweight for over a period of 8 months, it's a good indication that your current lifestyle is not a healthy one. The science of weight loss is so simple! But never carried out by individuals trying to lose weight. There is two major components in weight loss:

1) Nutrition
2) Exercise

We need to modify these two components in your current lifestyle in order for you to lose weight because the current one is not working for you! Here is the basic outline of my plan for you to lose weight.

1) We modify your caloric intake and nutrition so it is more suited to your lifestyle. An individual can actually completely lose all their extra weight from nutrition alone, but exercise will help speed up the process and tone your body into a sexy figure. I will help you calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate and figure out how much you should be eating, and as well help you come up with a meal plan.

2) Exercise is important for those trying to lose fat and at the same time tone their body. Exercising will also speed up your weight loss process. I will focus most of my exercising on endurance training that will work your cardiovascular system and make you sweat hard!

3) Thirdly! I will help educate you on the science of your body to help explain what to look out for and what to be expecting along your journey towards losing weight. I will also give some tips and tricks to help ease you on your journey towards transforming your body into a slimmer, healthier and happier you.

I hope that when we are finished, I will leave you with a new healthy body, an educated mind and a happy spirit.


For Your Interest:

In today’s (modern industrialized) society humans occupy a lifestyle that consists of sleeping later at night, reduced sleep hours, frequent snacking on processed and fried food, and consuming meals (dinner) late at night. Humans from 40 millennia ago did not have lights to stay up late at night, access to vast amounts of food (and processed food) at any time of the day or the luxury to obtain food without any expenditure of energy. So what would happen if humans from the past were forced to live in today’s society? First of all they would have reduced energy expenditure because there is no need to exert energy to accomplish anything, everything is technology based and prepared for you. Second you would have increased caloric intake because there is an increase availability of food and humans from the past have a minds set to always eat because they don’t know when the next meal will come. Third they would have an offset circadian rhythm resulting in chronodisruption resulting in improper metabolism of food consumed. So it seems if our ancestors from 40 000 years ago were forced to live in our society today, they would suffer from increased body weight leading to obesity and accumulation of visceral fat. Not to mention further complications in metabolic function, premature aging, cancer, diseases, and psychological problems.

The one interesting thing I remember learning from my astrobiology course was that human biological evolution (the change in our genetic material over time) has ceased for the last 40 000 years. The Homo sapiens today are exactly the same as the Homo sapiens from 40 millennia ago. Even though biological evolution had ended, the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens continued to make changes as drastic as living in candle lit huts during the dark ages of the 4th century to staying up late dancing disco during the 1970’s. Now in the 21st century Homo sapiens are undergoing a new kind of evolution, a technological evolution that is changing human behaviour, psychology and as well lifestyle. We humans are designed to survive in the rugged conditions of the past, living relaxed sedentary lives in today’s technologically advanced civilization. All the complications that our ancestors of the past would have living in our society apply to us as well!

For individuals currently suffering from obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension and metabolic impairments, there is a strong possibility that your illness is caused by the reasons I have mentioned above. You are not going to be able to cure your sickness with medicine and drugs, those only help to alleviate your symptoms. What you need is to remove the source of your illness which is most likely the current lifestyle you are leading. As I help to modify your lifestyle into a healthier one, I hope to not only help you reduce your waistline, but relieve you from many other diseases associated with obesity and improve your cardiovascular fitness as a secondary effect.