Becoming Fat Adapted

What if we could:

• “wake up in the morning and function well for several hours without eating any calories?”
•  ” have stable energy levels at rest throughout the day?”
•  “eliminate cravings and binges on high-carbohydrate foods?”
• have improved performance and stabilized energy during prolonged aerobic workouts?”

If we could achieve these goals, we would show signs of “fat-adaptation,” meaning that your body primarily fuels fats versus carbohydrates or glucose. By choosing the right foods and making a conscious effort to limit the wildly excessive insulin production that results from excessive carbohydrate consumption, we can feel a sense of relief that we can take steps to control our body weight and composition.

We can embark upon a 21-day experiment to eat Primal-aligned meals and assess the results. We must take no shortcuts in this experiment despite having difficulty rejecting our obsessive, chronic approach to workouts, a carbohydrate burning/carbohydrate loading pattern, and a calories in-calories out mindset about weight loss. We must even eliminate chronic exercise patterns and exhausting exercise routines in the name of burning through calories, along with high-carbohydrate eating patterns.

We must understand that a missed exercise day or weekend of indulgent meals will not lead to weight gain. Succeeding with body composition goals just requires a sincere commitment to depart from conventional wisdom recommendations in favor of a Balanced Way Primal approach. The keys to success with weight management, optimal health, and minimized disease risk starts with emphasizing the simple premise that it’s mostly about moderating insulin production; The conventional mindset persist as deeply flawed, ineffective, and even potentially dangerous to one’s health. 

As we engage in a Primal eating and exercise pattern, we can refrain from eating in the morning until W.H.E.N (When Hunger Ensues Naturally). This exercise will enhance our appreciation of food and meal rituals and give us a greater sense of how fat-adaptation works in real-time. In particular, these practices further strengthen our ability to rely on internal energy stores and accelerate excess body fat reduction.

Reference

Sisson, Mark. The Primal Blueprint. 4th edition. ed. Oxnard, CA: Primal Blueprint Publishing, 2019.

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