Mike Sheridan - Live It, NOT Diet!: Eat More Not Less. Lose Fat Not Weight

Live It

NOT Diet!

eat more not less. lose fat not weight.

Mike Sheridan

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Live It NOT Diet!/Mike Sheridan

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Contents

This book is dedicated to my friends and family. My 100th birthday will be a lot more enjoyable if youre there too, with a healthy body and a strong mind.

A principle is a principle, and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Ghandi

Introduction

Feed The Muscle & Starve The Fat

You are reading this book because you are unhappy with your body. You are unhappy with your body because youve been following conventional wisdom. The same wisdom thats doubled diabetes and tripled obesity in North America; and ironically, had no impact on the one thing it was built on in the first place preventing heart disease.

If you continue to follow the conventional approach to getting fit, your health and body composition will continue to suffer. Not only because incorrect government guidelines are making us fat and sick, but because inaccurate expert recommendations are keeping us there.

This is why reviewing Eat Meat And Stop Jogging before tackling Live It NOT Diet! is highly encouraged. In this prerequisite text, I discuss the problems with the common approach to getting fit, and show you how many of the so-called nutrition and fitness facts are actually myths, built on flawed research and corporately funded recommendations that have no concern for your long-term health.

If you havent already, please check out Eat Meat And Stop Jogging before reading further (available at Amazon). This is the prerequisite to Live It NOT Diet!

The theme of Live It NOT Diet! is Feed The Muscle & Starve The Fat, because the conventional approach to getting fit has been promoting the opposite. Youve been told to limit the foods that feed the muscle (like animal protein) because it supposedly causes heart disease and cancer, and increase the foods that feed the fat (like whole grains), because they apparently provide fiber and energy. This not only increases our fat storage, but it prevents us from building the muscle to burn it.

Weve become fat because we eat too many carbohydrates and not enough animal protein.

We dont need dietary carbohydrates for energy as were perfectly capable of manufacturing glucose by converting stored fat. And by following the advice to increase your intake of these high carbohydrate foods, because of their supposed ability to lower degenerative disease, youre actually increasing your risk. As the more carbohydrates you consume, the more fat you store and the harder it becomes to burn off.

Obesity puts you at a higher risk for the metabolic syndrome, which makes you twice as likely to develop heart disease, and 5 times more likely to develop diabetes.

Nearly 80% of diabetics are overweight.

Hypertension is twice as common in obese adults.

Diabetes doubles your risk of Alzheimers.

Obesity increases your risk of heart disease by 40%.

In other words, excess fat starts with excess carbohydrates, and finishes with an increased risk nearly every degenerative disease. With an abundant amount of research clearly demonstrating that the overconsumption of carbohydrates causes heart disease, diabetes, dementia and (arguably) cancer.

In simple terms, the equation looks like this:

Step 1: Excess carbohydrates = elevated blood sugar = elevated insulin = fat storage = obesity

Step 2: Obesity = metabolic syndrome = degenerative disease

Although it doesnt always include obesity in the equation; as blood sugar and insulin can be chronically elevated without a noticeable increase in body fat.

A recent book by Neurologist, Dr. David Perlmutter, supplies evidence that sugar and starches damage the brain and lead to Alzheimers, ADHD, depression, schizophrenia, and dementia. This is not only because of insulin resistant cells and inflammation in the brain, but because sugar molecules bind to brain proteins and either damage or oxidize them. These sticky proteins, called AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products), are how high blood sugar increases our risk of brain shrinkage.

The evidence linking brain disease and sugar consumption is so bad that scientists have dubbed Alzheimers Type 3 Diabetes.

In 2011, Japanese researchers looked at 1,000 men and women over 60 and determined that people with diabetes were twice as likely to develop Alzheimers disease within 15 years, and 1.75 times more likely to develop dementia of any kind.

And other than brain damage and fat storage, high sugar (and insulin) is also correlated with:

• Depressing the immune system
• Increasing oxidative stress
• Decreasing nutrient absorption calcium and magnesium
• Lowering testosterone
• Elevating blood pressure
• Lowering HDL (good) cholesterol
• Increasing triglycerides
• Causing kidney disease
• Increased colon & breast cancer risk
• Eroding teeth
• Brain shrinkage

Factors that are often classified as unfortunate consequences of aging. When realistically, theyre unfortunate consequences of excess carbohydrates.

Once were obese and sick, were told to go on a diet. This usually involves reducing calories to lose weight, which means eating less animal protein (the only food that would help us build muscle) and doing cardio to burn more calories. The reduction in calories produces weight loss, but not without a significant amount of muscle loss, increase in fat storage hormones, decrease in fat burning hormones, and an overall reduction in our metabolic rate.

We feel like crap, but we enjoy the weight loss for a bit until we cant overpower the hunger hormones any longer, and our body naturally adapts to the lowered caloric state by storing more fat. We put the weight back on and actually gain more than when we started, because our threshold to gain has reduced. Meaning, we weigh more now, and a higher percentage of it is fat.

Not only is this frustrating, because we followed the advice and put in the effort, but its depressing because conventional wisdom implies that we are to blame. According to the experts, weight maintenance is all about balancing calories, so we must be eating too much or not exercising enough. Which, as we discussed in Eat Meat And Stop Jogging , couldnt be further from the truth!