Best Healthy Weight Loss Tips

Welcome to my very own weight loss blog/site thing!

I started out wanting to make this site a collection of tips and ideas to lose weight safely and permanently that I have gleaned over the recent years. But then it occurred to me that you don’t know me from Adam. Why would you be interested to read another person’s thoughts and opinions of this subject: weight loss. After all, thousands of books fill the shelves of Barnes & Noble that spout someone’s version of how to lose weight for good.

I guess I really felt it was necessary to keep track of all I had sorted through about diet and healthy living over the years. Sometimes it just takes someone who doesn’t have a vested interest in whether someone agrees on my take on how to eat and how to exercise, etc.

I have a very decided opinion that the human body is the result of amazing design and not mere chance. Yes, I believe in a special creation by a benevolent Creator Who knew what He was doing when He designed this body of ours. I sometimes wonder how much of eternity is took Him to just figure out how to balance catabolism with anabolism – the two opposing processes of metabolism. For 75 or more years this harmonious process happens all without a hitch – unless we mess with it. I wonder, too, how He thought of our nervous system. Nerves course through our bodies – interconnected and yet headed to one central control – the brain.

The human body is a marvel. Designed to live flawlessly for 7 or 8 decades (actually more) only quitting when we wear it out – or kill it with illness or bad habits.

Sorry for rambling… I decided to share the bits and pieces of knowledge gleaned over time that “fit” a special creation rather then the current view that the body is a mechanical device that can have parts exchanged for worn out ones and disease can be poisoned or irradiated like it won’t affect the rest of the body. While I agree that technically a calorie is a calorie and that the body will burn or store calories regardless of the source.

BUT how that calorie is packaged is the material difference. The 100 calories packed in 8 oz. of plums is “packaged” differently than those of the 100 calories in 3 level tablespoons of rich vanilla ice cream! Take a look at the insert below.

100 calories of fresh plums is about ½ POUND (7.8 oz) and has:

1.52 grams of protein,

21.4 grams of carbs and

0 (read zero) grams of fat

3 grams of fiber

jammed with numerous vitamins, minerals, enzymes. I dare say you would get a belly ache on that many plums.

100 calories of “rich vanilla” ice cream is 3 tablespoons(!), has:

1.4 g of protein,

8.9 grams of carbs and

6.4 grams of fat

zero fiber

minor amounts of minerals and vitamins.

While the protein grams are relatively the same in both, there are twice as many carbs in plums but ZERO fat plus there is fiber, 3 grams. Plus we are talking sugar packaged n its natural state combined with real enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Then there is the volume and therein lies the problem! You would fill up on the ½ pound of plums but when was the last time you were content to have just a 3 level tablespoons of ice cream?

God designed this body “machine” to work and adapt to its environment. As seasons change, food would be more or less available – He knew that before he put the first man down here. Some foods would be more plentiful different times of the year. Sometimes food would be scarce. He knew that and designed into His creation the ability to make it through those tough times. The very wise Creator planned for us to work and sweat for out daily bread. Yet He gave us a brain that was equipped to design and create and invent.

So man designed “better” ways to make food available. domesticating animals. Planting in rows. Canning and freezing. All wonderful innovations but making it easier to have more than enough food to survive.

So here we are, in a body that was originally designed to handle harsh times in a world where things are far from harsh.

I’m getting long winded so I’ll continue next time.  But think about the kinds of foods and food forms we have available and how that would work with this amazing body machine.

Tell me what you think.