It was a beautiful morning for jogging. The moon lit everything up with its warm
glow, there was a slight breeze, and despite the rain the humidity felt a
little low. I didn’t want to stop
jogging but had to in order to go to work.
Isn’t that how it always is, work getting in the way.
While I was jogging I was thinking. With all the exercise I have been doing I
have not really lost much weight at all.
I know it all goes back to diet. Calories are a zero sum game. If you burn what you take in and a little
more you get weight loss no matter what you eat.
I read an article a while ago and had to look it back up
because I couldn’t remember all the details.
There is a guy named Mark Haub, he is a professor of human nutrition at
Kansas. He theorized that weight loss was pure calorie counting. That is what
mattered the most, not what you ate.
He limited himself to 1800 calories. His diet was Twinkies, Nutty Bars, Powdered
Donuts, and Doritos, along with sugary cereal and cookies. You would expect this man to die after a
month but a crazy thing happened on the way to proving a crazy theory: He lost
weight.
His bad cholesterol (LDL) dropped 20 percent. By consuming garbage his body fat dropped
from 33.4% to 24.9%. Buy like any good
nutritionist he felt guilty about eating pure junk in front of his kids so he
did eat vegetables and health food with his family, still you can’t argue with
his results.
Now I’m going to theorize since I am a scientist a fact
that we established quite a few blogs back if you haven’t read them. What Haub really taught us was that we really
don’t know what the body needs and uses as fuel.
When I tell people that for three months about once a
week I ate a half a pound of bacon for breakfast and lost weight while lowing
my cholesterol they look at me like I’m crazy.
It’s true I have the blood work to back it up.
Let me give you one more example. I worked with this crazy older guy once. How crazy, you ask, well he chewed nicotine gum,
not because he wanted to quit smoking (he had never smoked in his life) but
because he like the gum and the nicotine helped him focus.
This guy, at several points in his career, ran
hospitals. His problem was his
cholesterol. His doctor told him he was a walking heart attack so he went on a
diet. A low-fat high fiber diet eating
all the right rabbit food and his cholesterol got worse even on cholesterol
medication.
Next he tried South Beach and had the same effect. Out of desperation he tried Atkins. In several months with almost no exercise he
lost over 50 pounds and bottomed out his cholesterol. He ate bacon and fried eggs every
morning. Lunch was three or four hot
dogs and cheese. You get the picture.
Bottom line when it comes to diets I don’t believe any of
the experts. We are all different and
what works for some of us will not work for all. That’s all I got for today.
Daily Recap:
Matt: 36 Min AM Jog
Kelly: 1 Hour spin class y’all!
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