Dropping LBs - A Hack to Help You Start

If you are mounting a campaign to drop some weight, here's a tip to get you rolling...

Most people are gonna start on Monday. And they weigh themselves Monday morning. Here's a different idea: weigh yourself right after you eat that "farewell" meal on Sunday night. Don't eat anything after that. When you wake up in the morning, have a pee, don't have your morning coffee quite yet, now hop on the scale. I guarantee you will have already dropped a pound or so from the previous weigh-in the night before. You can use this momentum to carry you onward.

- Dave the Pirate Nutritionist

Comments

FAT - High? Low? What's the Dealio?

Why is it that people seem to lose weight both by eating high fat and low fat? I've seen the studies and the data. It seems like both ways work. So how the heck is THAT possible? It only sounds like "a thing" because "fat" is called "fat" and we assume that it has something to do with the fat that is stored on our body. While it is pretty much the same stuff, the eating of fat, whether that fat comes from animal sources or plant sources, has nothing to do with how much of it gets stored on your body. The thing that controls that is INSULIN. Insulin is the hormone that decides when you store fat or when you use it for energy. Fat is actually energy, and that is what we should be calling it. The things you eat that determine whether or not you will get fat are foods that raise your insulin levels. When insulin levels are high, your body is ordered to store fat. It's that simple. It will not allow your body to use that stored fa...

The Proper Weight Loss Mindset

I think most heavy people, and I am still heavy even though I went from about 250 to about 187, have the notion that that is their "normal weight." This is not the case. Humans evolved over a couple millions of years eating a certain type of natural food diet and probably even the fattest humans would have had a few weeks of fat stored for times of scarcity. This is not much. Even a lean person has many thousands of calories of stored body fat and that is by design. If people simply flipped this idea that your "normal weight" should be lean with only a couple weeks of stored fat to use in times of scarcity, then this will help you realize that your fat self is the abnormal one, and that if you simply eat a more natural diet free of processed sugars and grains, and low in starches and legumes (our ancestral evolved diet) then your body will 'normalize' and get you down to that leaner frame that has a normal amount of stored fat. ...

My New Podcast

I got your letters! The world was clamoring for yet another podcast on low carb eating so I have risen to the challenge. You can find THE PIRATE NUTRITIONIST PODCAST and all the regular old podcast platforms. If you are not into Stitcher then Google me and find me elsewhere. I will generally speak about things in a conversational tone intended for the layperson to understand, mainly since I am not a doctor or licensed nutritionist or licensed pirate. But I do know how to normalize that body weight. Thanks for your support! - Dave Smith

The Pirate Nutritionist

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