Detours BODY

This weekend was an eating shambles - I ate crap all weekend and a lot of sugar today. I think I have a lot of cardio activity coming this week..LOL! I feel that having an ok I don’t care attitude is better than stressing about it and feeling guilty. At the end of the day as long as I have a sensible week and stay active I’ll be ok. Pangs of guilt can come in but, the fact is there are people who eat loads of **** and still have lean bodies (Michael Phelps - ok an olympic swimmer but my point being energy in versus energy out is the name of the game) If I sat on my arse the whole time this coming week man it will get huuuuuge! But if I make a concious effort to stay active and push hard at every opportunity then I will be good. All about being what humans are designed to be, moving, working, LIVING.

I was reading a girls blog just now about her wanting advice about fat burners because she wants to lose fat. This is what clever marketing has done, makes millions believe that unless they use fat burners they are destined to stay fat! I disagree. People have been slim for years without them, OK they can work but it’s certainly not wise to take them everyday indefinitely. We live in a world where if something hasn’t happened "NOW", then it’s just too long! no one is prepared to wait for the results, or put in the necessary work. I don’t just mean the exercise, but the eating a decent balanced diet for your desired physique and your daily living activities. i think a lot of people are under the impression that as long as you exercise for 1 hour a day you’ll be fine to sit down the other hours you’re awake. Of course fat wont shift if thats your attitude! We are designed to move. My daughter is 3 and she never sits down! Always on to the next thing running here and running there, singing stomping her feet, finding the next game to play or thing to do, all up until bed time. She never walks somewhere but runs, she never sits if she can stand and she never sits still when she is sitting. If you look at her body it is long and lean, she has noticeable muscle tone and she is 3 people. She doesn’t take or need fat burners she just moves constantly. OK she is a growing girl so her metabolism is different but there are kids of the same age who are seriously overweight and to watch them for a few hours they don’t move that much, they don’t go outdoors and they certainly sit very still!

Get my point? We create heat by moving around that will use calories, we are designed to move and be active and do things. no excuses, exercise is the easy part it’s just one hour. Keep up the activity by staying on your feet, moving around, walk faster, or jog from A to B, only sit for meals, ride a bike to work, take a kite out with friends and family, take a frisbee to the park..endless things. JUST DO IT!!

But what about your insides? Most people think that having low body fat and having your abs showing means that you’re healthy, but if you take supplement after supplement overloading your system with chemicals that man made in a lab, then, is that healthy? Is sweetening your food with splenda healthy? It is a chemical after all..

Most people are happy if they have a low body fat level and are conditioned to train, but what about someone who ingests natural foods but has a slightly higher body fat %? Are they not as healthy because their abs are not as defined?

I read quite a few blogs with people preaching the eat healthy message and the I don’t eat any crap because I eat healthy with no sugar and blah blah blah..but you eat a shed load of splenda, sugar free this and that, all chemicals so is that healthy? We are conditioned like robots, following the crowds instead of using instinct and our inner thoughts about ourselves. Yes a low fat body is a healthy one when given healthy nutrients. Eating to live is very different from living to eat. True health would see you eliminate all the artificial sweeteners and junk..may not cause a spike in your system like table sugar but we are the early generations of this type of chemical sh*t and the illnesses and cancers that are rife today could be the chemicals we eat..

I’m no saint though, outside of competition, if I want to eat a sweet treat then I eat the real deal, my mind is clear because it is so occasional that it wont do lasting damage. The splenda addicts and other supplements laced with sweeteners - which is most of them by the way - consume this stuff on a daily basis.. your liver has to process this stuff, all the chemicals which aren’t recognised as real food puts stress on your liver. The build up over time can become toxic and the damage it can create long term doesn’t bear thinking about..

but your healthy if you can see your abs though right?!!!