If you have a history of body image issues, or still do or any type of unhealthy relationship with food please either stop reading, or know that what I'm saying is in a certain context.
People are getting more and more concerned with the state of the world, the supply chains, the ability of the unvaccinated to access grocery stores and other essential avenues.
This has a lot of people stocking up, getting their survival methods in order and just a theme of prepping in the air in general.
However, I also see people restricting their diets, trying to look cut for the "beach" and IG.
Nature teaches us that body fat is the most important thing an animal tries to put on before a long stressful time, like the 500 pound raccoons in my backyard.
So why just give it up? All that money healthy food and thousands of calories you "over ate" melted away for what? Vanity?
Let's not forget that if we have been consuming those foods which add body fat as saturated and monounsaturated fat and have been staying away from an excess of environmental toxins, the fat on our body is thousands of fairly pure calories just waiting to be used for a "cloudy day."
The Obesity Paradox is a good book to read if one has a vision of health that they think is synonymous with a supermodel. We know many healthy looking (and "doing") people succumb to a lot of the same diseases as the unhealthy. What's the overlapping similarity here? If you have been listening to Ray you know.
There are issues with weight as a survival technique however, it'll put more weight on your joints, probably make you slower and possibly more estrogenic as a result of aromatase. It'll also make one more likely to stand out in a food shortage. The concept of being a "gray man" means you fit in with your environment and don't stand out in a SHTF situation. So choose your battles wisely.
There are many who get enjoyment out of fitness and eat to fuel it. However for those who think they must do it, so they do, know that fitness isn't free... It's costly, it's an expenditure of calories with health benefits only to a certain extent with the rest being a waste of time and money. Much of the fitness done in the past was with a gain more than just "moving one's body", the individual either ended their expenditure with a harvested animal or a pile of wood or a new barn or house.
Just some things to consider and think about. In a sense a person able to gain weight is most likely healthier as their body actually is able to execute the processes needed to gain electrons where a "hard gainer" may just be starving nutritionally and calorically, hardly something to envy but rather something to fix in a timely fashion.
People are getting more and more concerned with the state of the world, the supply chains, the ability of the unvaccinated to access grocery stores and other essential avenues.
This has a lot of people stocking up, getting their survival methods in order and just a theme of prepping in the air in general.
However, I also see people restricting their diets, trying to look cut for the "beach" and IG.
Nature teaches us that body fat is the most important thing an animal tries to put on before a long stressful time, like the 500 pound raccoons in my backyard.
So why just give it up? All that money healthy food and thousands of calories you "over ate" melted away for what? Vanity?
Let's not forget that if we have been consuming those foods which add body fat as saturated and monounsaturated fat and have been staying away from an excess of environmental toxins, the fat on our body is thousands of fairly pure calories just waiting to be used for a "cloudy day."
The Obesity Paradox is a good book to read if one has a vision of health that they think is synonymous with a supermodel. We know many healthy looking (and "doing") people succumb to a lot of the same diseases as the unhealthy. What's the overlapping similarity here? If you have been listening to Ray you know.
There are issues with weight as a survival technique however, it'll put more weight on your joints, probably make you slower and possibly more estrogenic as a result of aromatase. It'll also make one more likely to stand out in a food shortage. The concept of being a "gray man" means you fit in with your environment and don't stand out in a SHTF situation. So choose your battles wisely.
There are many who get enjoyment out of fitness and eat to fuel it. However for those who think they must do it, so they do, know that fitness isn't free... It's costly, it's an expenditure of calories with health benefits only to a certain extent with the rest being a waste of time and money. Much of the fitness done in the past was with a gain more than just "moving one's body", the individual either ended their expenditure with a harvested animal or a pile of wood or a new barn or house.
Just some things to consider and think about. In a sense a person able to gain weight is most likely healthier as their body actually is able to execute the processes needed to gain electrons where a "hard gainer" may just be starving nutritionally and calorically, hardly something to envy but rather something to fix in a timely fashion.
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