There is one thing that links everything together…
The more I learn the more I’m finding out it governs a lot of other things in life too…
Regarding my areas of knowledge -lifestyle and in particular helping busy mums and busy professionals lose weight and improve their health…
There are a lot of diet and exercise plans out there, often they are compared to what I teach…
The deeper I dig and research, the more everything comes back to one thing…
Firstly I learned about exercise, it was very clear from the off we were designed to move, it was part of our survival; how we move and our posture and what effected this, it was obvious that the body is an incredibly complex thing and I still have to look things up now…
We are very much governed by the fact our genetics are millions of years old, our bodies primary instinct is short term survival…
When your posture is bad, your body will move however it can – the path of least resistance, not being able to move meant slowly dying for our ancient ancestors…
When you balance in a controlled way, your body does everything to align you, to stop you falling over and getting injured – detrimental to survival…
Stress was something that warned us we were under threat and we needed to take a evasive action (fight or flight), usually it was more black or white, we survived or we didn’t, nowadays stress is less black and white but more prolonged and having increased levels of the hormone cortisol is not healthy and not good for weight loss as the body believes we have survived and there is a need to replenish spent energy, it’s why stress and hunger go together…
Big decisions we make now a days can come with a touch of fear and sometimes inaction, especially regarding the unknown, again way back when, a wrong decision could kill us, it’s unlikely now but the brain still tries to keep us safe…
I was thrust back into the dating game when I separated quite a while ago, I decided to learn dating phycology, even this was pre ingrained…
What didn’t fall into place until a few years in was nutrition…
The relationship between calories consumed and calories burned by someone each day seemed a logical thing to focus on, but didn’t quite give us a healthy guide of what we should be eating…
When the above was a little hit and miss, of course it was obvious…
We have this ancient genetic design, that hasn’t changed much, in the animal world it’s no different- nature provides…
Except humans being “superior” we have started making our own, not developing food to make it even healthier, but focusing on taste and visual appeal, because essentially that sells!
Business and survival of the fittest, another example!
Every single thing I have learned over the last two decades comes back to this, moving as we were designed and having a diet that consists of naturally found foods as much as possible is the very essence of wether we will successfully be healthy and lose and or maintain a healthy weight.
Ed (The Lose and Shape Up Expert).