- A note I'd like you to know.. obesity has an inverse relationship with masculinity.. meaning the more your fat increases.. your male hormones decrease.. fat goes up, "Testosterone" goes down, and vice versa.. when this hormone drops in us as men, our desire and sexual ability decrease.. we get depressed.. we feel lethargy, exhaustion and loss of motivation.. we sweat a lot and lose our muscle strength.. breasts appear on us.. and we get problems with metabolism, tumors and diseases.. that's why you find a young man who is still young and he's talking to you about "Viagra"..
- The same issue with women.. obesity is a sworn enemy of the hormone "progesterone".. you'll get constant headaches.. especially migraines.. your desire and sexual appetite decrease.. you become anxious and depressed and your mood changes abruptly and violently all the time.. the hair on your head falls out and your body hair increases, along with other health problems..
- Now you've simply stopped losing weight.. your body has stopped the high burn rate it got used to about two months ago, whose results were fast and delightful.. and it began to defend itself and adapt.. and to burn fewer calories for the same effort..
- Here you must change the strategy you follow with your body.. so an important principle appeared in the world of dieting called the "free day".. which is the free day.
This day is a whole day.. you eat in it as you wish without counting calories.. and you can even exceed your required calorie count, on condition that the food stays "clean".. you can mess around a bit.. eat mahshi.. pasta.. chocolate.. but don't go down and buy a cake or a tray of basbousa with cream and tell me "it's a free day"...!
It's preferable that this day be a "rest day" from any training or sport you practice.. what will happen is that on this day your body will find calories coming in all day while it isn't required to burn extra..
Meaning "the ban is over".. the next day, when you return to training and diet, your body goes back to burning more..
- The free day must be shifted by 3 days in each direction.. meaning this week it's Friday.. next week it's Thursday.. after that it's Saturday.. after that it's Wednesday.. the open-day strategy will keep your body at all times imagining that the ban is over..
Some people, after a certain period.. averaging 6 weeks.. their bodies adapt to this thing as well.. and adopt a defensive mechanism against the trick.. and start burning less..
Here you must attack the fat stores you have with a new plan.. among the common mistakes we see in iron gyms and with athletes.. is a person doing abdominal exercises day and night to burn his belly fat.. or a woman running on the treadmill for hours for the fat on her buttocks..
Burning fat from "a specific spot - Spot reduction" is a myth.. it doesn't exist and doesn't happen.. have you ever seen a fat person whose body is full of fat but whose waist is slim and whose abdominal muscles are visible because he does a lot of abdominal exercises?
Your sex, male or female, together with your genes determines where your fat is stored.. and your body chooses when to burn from which store.. what's common in men is that fat is stored in the shoulders, the belly, the face and the back.. and in women in the chest, the belly, the buttocks, the face and the thighs..
When burning happens.. the body chooses where it will burn from first.. what's usual in men, for example, is that it starts with the face.. and then the shoulders.. and the belly area is the last.. and in women it starts with the chest, the face and the arms.. as we said, the matter is controlled by your genes.. and it isn't fixed..
But the point is that there is no arm training that will burn arm fat!! Burning happens across the whole body and the body itself chooses which stores to open and burn from first..
Bring an ordinary slice of meat from the butcher and look at the fat in it.. this fat is a solid substance and cells.. and it breaks down through a highly complex biochemical process..
It isn't broken down by heat like a tub of butter.. meaning the idea of "I train while wearing bags or a thermal suit" is a myth.. all it will do is increase the water leaving your body through sweat and dry your body out quickly..
On the contrary.. when you train in a cold environment.. or challenge the cold with fewer clothes.. your body needs to warm itself.. so it burns fuel.. which is fat..
That's why you might find an African at the equator in the heat very obese.. but it's almost impossible to find an Eskimo who has lived his whole life in the ice that obese..
- As soon as your body begins to defend itself against the open-day mechanism.. the free day.. you adopt a new strategy called "eat more, exercise more - EMEM"..
Here, instead of taking 1600 calories and burning 500.. no.. take 1800 calories and burn 700.. it's the same.. but your body, with the extra calories coming in, begins to burn more again.. this strategy lasts a month.. after that the body will protect itself from it once again..
At that point you carry out a counterattack called "eat less, exercise less - ELEL".. you take 1300 calories and burn 200, for example..
These plans, including the free day, must be swapped, changed and replace one another all the time.. don't settle on one of them.. and keep your body at all times imagining that the ban is over.. or that the harsh conditions of training that need continuous burning are over..
The body, by the way, just as it adapts to the diet, adapts to hard training too.. and an athlete comes to you saying "I lift heavy weights and my arm muscles have stopped growing.." his body has simply adapted, and this is a problem we'll talk about solving later..
- Fat needs water in order to break down.. how will it burn while it's in solid form? You must drink 3 to 4 liters of water over the course of the day, of which half a liter after you brush your teeth in the morning before eating or drinking anything.. 3 - 4 liters, other than any juices or other drinks.. this is very good for your body in general and has an effect that women especially will notice.. it will erase 10 years or more of the marks of time on you after two months to 3 months.. you'll look 10 years younger..
- Now, regarding the insulin we talked about yesterday.. some people, from the excess of sugar and processed starches they used to eat all the time.. developed something called "insulin resistance"..
Insulin resistance means that the cells, from the excess of insulin, have come to resist it and don't use it in the correct way.. and consequently blood sugar rises..
Consequently the "Beta cells" in the "Pancreas" secrete more insulin to regulate blood sugar.. and insulin stores this sugar as fat.. and insulin stays high all the time, and in order to regulate the sugar level these people are therefore hungry all the time and eat a lot and their fat accumulates.. a hellish vicious circle.. whose end is illness and sometimes death..
How do we bring insulin levels back to being normal and healthy?
By fasting.. fasting for 12 to 16 hours for a period of 28 to 40 days.. it wipes out insulin resistance for you completely.. by the way, this fasting is the fasting of Christians and Muslims alike.. Christians in a certain fast abstain from food for 12 hours and then eat "plant products".. that's excellent for regulating the insulin cycle.. but here they make a grave mistake.. so they start eating "fried food".. and that wipes out the benefit they would have got from the fast..
The plant food at that time should be vegan cheese.. and that's without milk.. fruits.. fresh green vegetables.. baked or boiled potatoes.. you can go on the internet and get extremely delicious recipes for cooked vegetables away from fried food.. forget the heritage of "the government hospital's cooking" that comes to your mind when you remember the words "sautéed vegetables" and "vegetable soup".. there are truly delicious recipes..
Imagine if you fasted like that and ate like that for a month to 40 days, what your body would look like and what your health would be like?
The same mistake we make as Muslims.. we fast from 12 - 16 hours for a month.. a perfect period to set everything right.. but we break our fast as if it were the last meal of our lives.. and then a tray of kunafa with honey and cream, then qatayef with cream.. and basbousa with goodness knows what.. and off we go out.. hungry? Let's get "McDonald's" and "KFC".. and that alone is pure poison..
And the day ends with you having eaten unhealthy poisons containing far too much sugar.. and calories enough for a tribe going off to war.. and you come out of the fast itself with insulin resistance!
So the fast here has lost its goal related to regulating insulin.. you could very well have broken your fast with a grilled slice of meat, or chicken, or fish, with some vegetables.. and a plate of salad.. and then had apples, plums and pomegranate or any fruit you like for dessert.. and spent a whole month like that.. which is healthier in your opinion?
Another mistake Muslims make in fasting.. don't get up from sleep before dawn to eat suhoor and then sleep.. stay up a little, eat suhoor, and then sleep a continuous, deep, regular sleep in order to regulate the cortisol hormone.. in order to sleep well, the last caffeinated drink you have must be at least 8 hours before sleep..
Another mistake made by Muslims and Christians alike.. the one who tells you in what case it's permissible to fast, and whether if you have a particular illness you can fast or not.. is not a sheikh or a priest.. the only one who can give you a ruling here is the doctor.. consult the doctor..
- So this diet gives me depression.. what's the solution?
Before we conclude, let's remember.. obesity has an inverse relationship with masculinity.. meaning the more your fat increases.. your male hormones decrease as a man.. and its relationship with femininity is inverse.. the more it increases, the more your female hormones decrease..
The subject of depression, then, and how we prevent it along with the diet, we'll talk about later.. and there's more to come..
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