Among the most important doctors you will stay in touch with and visit while you are on a diet and transforming your body from obesity to fitness are the nutritionist and the dermatologist..

- Dozens of questions since yesterday in particular.. How did you lose weight? Well, I have been dieting for years and my fat does not burn.. Well, I have passed sixty/ seventy/ eighty.. can I play sports? etc.. dozens of questions we will try to answer "with general rules".. these posts never replace resorting to the specialist doctor.. especially the heart doctor if you are obese or a heavy smoker..

Fats and the leftovers of cigarettes run through your blood vessels all the time.. these vessels are the "hoses" that carry blood to every place in your body.. over time the fats and tar accumulate on their walls from the inside.. and they can become blocked.. with violent exertion a crust of them can peel off and wound the wall of the blood vessel with it.. and what tries to stop the bleeding presents you with a disaster called a "clot"..

So what is the connection to the skin doctor?

The skin is the largest organ in our bodies.. it is the one that cools our body through sweat.. and it is the first line of defence against parasites and invaders, and it is the one that protects our internal tissues, and diet and exercise affect it.. and at that point a dermatology specialist must follow it up..

When you lose weight or your muscles grow, you notice that white or red lines have appeared on your skin.. the truth is these are "Scars".. if they are not treated they will leave a permanent mark..

The treatment is not that we go to the pharmacy and buy any cream and sit there "slathering".. the treatment is prescribed by the dermatologist after he examines your skin and knows its nature and knows the other medicines you may be taking.. etc..

- What do you think of fat-burning capsules and injections, I do not know what? Well, what do you think if on an empty stomach I drink hot water.. well, I wrap my body in bags.. well, I read on a women's forum that licorice soak with the leg of an orphan ant slims you down.. I eat yoghurt with lemon (the worst thing I have heard of in my life).. etc

All of this is rubbish.. and lies and empty talk.. there is no magic capsule that burns fat and improves health.. there is "a lifestyle that gets changed"..

First: the very common question among athletes who build muscle: "I lost weight and my clothes got loose and my muscles built up well.. and my weight does not go down on the scale"..

- And it will not go down on the scale, and it may even rise.. the truth is that muscle is heavier than fat.. the more your body becomes toned the heavier it will be on the scale.. even though you have lost weight and become much better.. Sylvester Stallone weighs 100 kilograms.. and "Bayoumi Fouad" may also weigh 100 kilograms.. but what a difference between this weight and that weight.. you want to lose fat.. forget the scale..

Second: sugar is your permanent enemy.. a spoon of sugar in your body does the same thing a chimpanzee could do in a china shop.. sugar increases fat by making your body secrete a hormone called "Insulin".. its role is to digest sugar and let the body benefit from it.. insulin also breaks down starches into sugar.. and it tries to keep the sugar level in your blood steady..

But insulin, when it rises, makes you "hungry".. and it will make you get up in the middle of the night to make a pizza or fry potatoes.. these are things with sugars and fats.. they raise your insulin more.. so you get hungrier.. and the surplus of sugar and starches will turn into fat stored away for a time of need.. a vicious circle that never ends..

Insulin must stay at an acceptable level.. the first thing, for this to happen, is that we stop sugar and manufactured starches.. like biscuits and rusks and these pastas..

Stopping sugar will make you gradually stop caffeine and stimulants and tea and coffee and Nescafe and the calamities that keep you up late or make you sleep badly and make your body dry and exhausted..

So what about bread? The best bread is our baladi bread with bran.. this is the healthy bread you can eat.. stay away from white shami and Lebanese and these stories..

So what about white rice? 100 - 150 grams of rice is enough daily.. that is not a little, by the way.. that is a cup of rice.. meaning after cooking, a big plate..

- The second hormone you must control is called "Cortisol".. this basically fights inflammation and regulates blood pressure.. and gives you a charge of energy in situations of stress so that you can defend yourself..

With constant stress and endless complaining and depression, cortisol levels rise in your body.. because cortisol is designed to give you energy at times of danger, so it raises the glucose in your blood.. and therefore raises insulin..

All of us secrete cortisol daily.. and for it to stay at its healthy levels you must sleep well and reduce stress.. not every little thing should give you a crisis.. stop broadcasting negative energy and stay away from the people who broadcast it.. stop the drama.. anyone who is "a drama queen" in his daily life and makes a mountain out of a molehill.. you will find he has obesity and blood pressure and diabetes and other things..

For the cortisol cycle to be regulated you must be calm.. sleep enough and comfortably, not interrupted.. at least 8 - 9 hours for adults and 10 - 11 hours for children.. these hours must be continuous..

In short.. sleep early and wake up early..

- Your body needs a certain number of calories daily to stay running.. even if you spend the whole day not moving.. these are the calories your body needs to spend "at rest, the Basal metabolic rate" just to keep running..

The nutritionist will tell you, according to your weight and age and the nature of your body, the amount of basic calories you need daily.. some people need 1500, and some 1650.. and some 2000.. etc.. for women the average is from 1300 - 1600 calories daily..

So if the woman who needs 1600 calories daily.. took only 1200 and stayed sitting on the couch? Her body will be forced to break down fat and burn it to get the remaining 400.. and in this way she is losing fat and slimming down.. every 7000 calories burned burn along with them a full kilogram of fat..

So what if she took only 1200 calories from food and did a little exercise that burns her another 400 calories? She will lose fat faster and slim down faster..

Meaning if she ate 2000 calories - more than she needs, and practised proper sport, like running or aerobics, or took up calisthenics or weights.. and burned 500 calories a day? She will be eating well and not starving from a constant diet, and losing fat!! And more importantly.. she will preserve her muscles and her body will not weaken.. because a diet without exercise means the brain breaks down part of the muscle to feed on it and preserve its own existence..

Third: you must eat clean food.. and you must know what is right and what is wrong in food.. stop fried food completely.. turn to grilled.. eat a lot of vegetables and fruit.. fibre benefits your health more than you can imagine..

With eating biscuits and white bread and Cheetos and Karate and the eternal misery.. these things get kneaded in your intestines and leave behind a layer.. it rots and decomposes and turns into mucus.. a breeding ground for the bacteria that bring you a bundle of diseases you no longer know where they came from.. and your stomach pressure rises and your colon expands and you find yourself with a paunch and a sagging belly..

The fibre in vegetables and fruit is the "scrubber" that cleans the human intestines of these deposits.. besides, digesting it is difficult so it consumes energy.. it burns calories.. so it makes you lose more weight..

- Know what the common mistakes in this matter are.. people drink skimmed milk because "fat increases weight".. the truth is that scientifically this is called "nonsense".. the fat of milk, the fat of meat.. the fat of chicken.. contains "a healthy fat called Conjugated linoleic acid".. this fat "burns" the fat in your body!

So do not cook with ghee and oil and manufactured fats.. remove the fat of meat and chicken from the soup and cook with that.. and drink full/ semi-skimmed milk.. do not throw away the egg yolk.. that too is a healthy, vital, important fat..

But the healthy fat found in milk and meat and chicken and fish.. although it is healthy.. its calories are like any fat.. high.. so excess of it will also increase the fat in the body..

Moderation is required.. and count your calories and calculate them..

Potatoes and sweet potatoes.. are not a food that increases weight.. this is healthy food and its calories are very few.. 100 grams of sweet potato has 50 calories.. meaning a quarter of a kilo has about 120 calories.. and they will fill you up for a long time and all of them are healthy fibre.. "eat grilled sweet potato so you get fat" is nonsense.. sweet potato is fibre and healthy starches and few calories, and even the sugar in it does not raise insulin and keeps blood sugar levels steady.. forget the old legends and the herbalists' recipes of "sweet potato to get fat"..

- Well, excuse me, am I going to live in this misery all my life and walk around counting calories? No.. over time your appetite mutates and your stomach shrinks.. two months and three and you will find yourself on your own without calculations.. eating the amounts your body needs.. on your own.. even if you wanted to eat more and go overboard.. you will not be able to..

The same applies when you stop sugar and artificial juice and start squeezing juice at home.. or instead of a chocolate biscuit you eat an apple..

After a while you will find your appetite has mutated.. when you need sugar, you automatically go and eat an apple, a carrot.. a peach.. and you will taste it more than a spoon of sugar.. and you will be happy..

So the matter just needs two or three months of effort at the beginning.. until you get used to the new healthy "lifestyle"...

- Here is another question.. "I am an athlete and I do violent exercise and my body has a lot of fat?".. Bodies are made in the kitchen, not in the iron gym.. the matter is 70% organising food and a healthy lifestyle.. and 30% exercise..

- "Well, I am a smoker.. can I do it?".. yes you can.. healthy food and exercise over time will help you quit smoking..

And please.. none of that boring argument of "there is no time for sport".. go out and run for half an hour.. "Putin" plays sports.. are your engagements more than his??

- The human body is not easy.. it is the most complex machine in the entire universe.. the only machine in the universe that adapts itself with amazing speed in order to protect itself from any change.. you will see this in simple things you do not notice unless you study them or think about them.. this is the only machine that repairs itself..

If you get cut while peeling an orange.. your body stops the bleeding and plugs the wound and treats the skin and returns itself to how it was!!

And since your body is surprised by your plan because you are giving it fewer calories to spend from.. it understands that you are forcing it to burn fat.. the strategic reserve it keeps for a time of need..

And because it is a machine in which the Creator placed an awesome capacity for adaptation.. your body will begin to resist you..

And reduce the burning..!

You are not giving me fewer calories? Well, I will adapt myself.. and start to acclimatise to doing the same violent effort but with fewer calories..

And suddenly you find that years have passed while you are playing sports and dieting and you have stopped burning fat...!

So what is the solution here?

The solution we will continue talking about later.. and the talk will have a remainder..

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